Procedures for verifying the validity of a consultation request
Article 5
1. The recipient Member State shall without delay verify whether the consultation request complies with the requirements of Article 4. 2. Where the food business operator submits insufficient information in the consultation request, the recipient Member State shall request the food business operator to provide additional information or make the relevant updates to the consultation request within the time period specified by the recipient Member State. 3. The consultation request shall be considered not valid where: (a) the food business operator does not provide requested additional information or updated consultation request within the period specified by the recipient Member State; (b) the submitted additional information is insufficient to conclude that the consultation request is valid. 4. The recipient Member State shall decide on the validity of the consultation request and without delay inform the food business operator, the other Member States and the Commission of the decision. Where the consultation request is considered not valid, the recipient Member State shall provide the reasons for that conclusion.