Chapter IV, Article 28 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/26

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Article 28Applications for approval of amendments to a product specification#

1.An application for approval of an amendment to a product specification, referred to in Article 66 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143, shall contain:

(a)the protected name to which the amendment relates;

(b)the headings in the product specification relating to the matters affected by the amendment;

(c)a description of and the reasons for each of the amendments proposed;

(d)the consolidated product specification as amended;

(e)for an application submitted by a Member State, the declaration referred to in Article 57(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143.

2.The Commission shall receive separately and shall not publish as part of the application:

(a)the name and contact details of the Member State or third country authority or producer group applicant in the Union stage of the procedure for approval of an amendment to the product specification;

(b)the name and contact details of the applicant producer group initiating the national stage of the procedure for approval of an amendment to the product specification;

(c)any accompanying documentation, as referred to in Article 21.

3.Member States, third countries authorities and applicant groups established or resident in a third country shall ensure consistency between the application for approval of amendment and the consolidated product specification and that there is no material divergence between them. The amendments listed in the application for approval of amendment shall correspond to the amendments effectively made to the product specification. Where an inconsistency is found after the approval of an amendment, the Member State, third country or applicant producer group that submitted the application shall adopt the necessary measures to remedy that inconsistency.

4.An application for approval of an amendment to the product specification shall be drawn up in accordance with the form made available in the Commission’s digital system referred to in Article 58(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143. Applicants from third countries shall use the form set out in Annex XIII to this Regulation. The information supplied may be entered by the Commission into that digital system.

5.For the purposes of Article 66(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143, in conjunction with Article 59(4) of that Regulation, in addition to the documents and information referred thereto, as amended, the Commission shall publish in the Official Journal of the European Union the application for approval of an amendment to the product specification.