Completeness check of dossiers for substances listed in Parts B to G of Annex I
Article 18
1. The rapporteur Member State shall assess the checklists provided by the notifiers in accordance with Article 10(2)(c). 2. The rapporteur Member State shall at the latest three months from the date of receipt of all dossiers for an active substance report to the Commission on the completeness of the dossiers. 3. For those active substances for which one or more dossiers are considered to be complete, the rapporteur Member State shall perform the evaluation as referred to in Articles 15 and 19, unless the Commission informs the rapporteur Member State, within two months of the date of receipt of the report of the rapporteur Member State on completeness, that it does not consider the dossier to be complete. 4. For those active substances for which a rapporteur Member State or the Commission consider that no dossier is complete within the meaning of Articles 5, 6 and 10, the Commission shall, within three months from the date of the receipt of the report of the rapporteur Member State on completeness, refer such a report to the Standing Committee for the Food Chain and Animal Health. In accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 19 of Directive 91/414/EEC it shall be decided whether a dossier is to be considered complete within the meaning of Articles 5, 6 and 10. 5. The Commission shall decide, as provided for in the fourth subparagraph of Article 8 (2) of Directive 91/414/EEC, not to include in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC an active substance for which no complete dossier has been submitted within the time limit provided for in Article 12 of this Regulation or the second sub-paragraph of Article 13 (2).