Commentaries: Art. 53

The Notification Authority has the following duties:
1. it obtains the evaluations and opinions of the competent assessment authorities;
2. it makes decisions in consultation with the assessment authorities;
3. using random sampling, it analyses the composition of biocidal products placed on the market;
4. ¹ it publishes the following lists in an appropriate form:
1. the list referred to in Article 95 paragraph 1 of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012², 2. the list of persons who have submitted the following documents: – documents complying with Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 or with Annex IIA or IVA and, where relevant, IIIA to Directive 98/8/EC³or – a letter of access to active substance data as referred to in letter d number 2 first indent, 3.⁴ the list of persons for whose benefit it has used data in accordance with Article 29a paragraph 5; e.⁵ it shall make available the electronic formats for the submission of applications for authorisation and for declarations.
It shall request the cantonal enforcement authorities, where appropriate at the request of the assessment authorities:
1. to carry out checks in accordance with Article 58;
2. to take random samples for analyses in accordance with paragraph 1 letter c.
Where in this Ordinance provision is made for opinions to be obtained from the assessment authorities, their requests are binding on the Notification Authority.⁶

Inserted by No I of the O of 20 June 2014, in force since 15 July 2014 (AS 2014 2073). ↩
See footnote to Art. 1b para. 3. ↩
See footnote to Art. 28 para. 4. ↩
Correction of 23 Dec. 2014 (AS 2014 4719). ↩
Inserted by No I of the O of 20 June 2014, in force since 15 July 2014 (AS 2014 2073). ↩
Amended by No I of the O of 5 June 2015, in force since 1 July 2015 (AS 2015 1985). ↩

Art. 53