16Notice of rejection of target application

16 Notice of rejection of target application

(1) If the Council, after considering a target application referred to it by the Authority, informs the Authority that it does not recommend that the organisms to which the application relates should be target organisms, the Authority shall cause to be given, in such manner as the Authority considers appropriate, to the person who made the target application and to the persons (if any) who made a later target application in respect of those organisms notice in writing stating that the Council does not recommend that those organisms should be target organisms. (2) A notice under subsection (1) shall: (a) if reasons have been given by the Council for not recommending that organisms to which the notice relates should be target organisms—set out those reasons; and (b) if there are circumstances in which, in the opinion of the Authority, a target application in relation to those organisms might result in a recommendation by the Council that those organisms should be target organisms—specify those circumstances.