Refunds of amounts in case of applications rejected before or during validation or withdrawn during the assessment
Article 13
1. The Agency shall reimburse 90 % of the fee collected where an application for active substance approval or biocidal product authorisation, submitted in accordance with respectively Article 7(1) or 43(1) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, or an application for a minor or major change of a product, is rejected before or during the validation phase. 2. The Agency shall reimburse 75 % of the fee collected where an application for active substance approval or biocidal product authorisation, submitted in accordance with respectively Article 7(1) or 43(1) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, or an application for a major change of a product, is withdrawn before the evaluating Competent Authority has transmitted its assessment report to the Agency. The fee collected shall not be reimbursed where an application is withdrawn after the evaluating Competent Authority has transmitted its assessment report to the Agency. 3. The arrangements for the refund of the remaining amount to the paying party shall be fixed by the Executive Director of the Agency and published on the website of the Agency.