Conduct and completion of the risk assessment
Article 5
EFSA shall verify that the technical dossier complies with its document referred to in the second paragraph of Article 3, and may ask the applicant for additional information or clarifications, as required by the content and the subject of the technical dossier. Following that verification, EFSA shall proceed with the risk assessment. During the conduct of the risk assessment, EFSA may communicate directly with the applicant to ask for additional information or clarifications. EFSA shall inform the Commission of every communication with the applicant. EFSA shall complete the risk assessment within a reasonable period of time and submit it to the Commission. EFSA shall publish the risk assessment in the EFSA Journal . On the basis of that risk assessment, the Commission shall, as necessary, modify the list of high risk plants, plant products or other objects referred to in Article 42(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 in accordance with Article 42(4) of that Regulation.