Submission of dossiers by more than one notifier
Article 5
1. Where for any active substance listed in Annex I there is more than one notifier, the notifiers concerned shall take all reasonable steps to submit the dossier for such substance collectively. Where the dossier is not submitted by all such notifiers, it shall contain details of the efforts made and the reasons why certain notifiers have not participated in the submission of the dossier. 2. Where an active substance has been notified by more than one notifier, those notifiers shall, for each study involving vertebrate animals, give details of the attempts made to avoid duplication of testing and give, if applicable, the reasons for conducting a duplicate study.