12‑4 Application for QM certificate made12‑4 Application for QM certificate made but not decided before commencement time

12‑4 Application for QM certificate made but not decided before commencement time

(1) This section applies if: (a) an application had been made under suborder 3.02(1) of the old Export Control (Organic Produce) Orders for the issue of a QM certificate for one or more kinds of organic produce; and (b) no decision had been made on the application before the commencement time. (2) After the commencement time: (a) the application is taken to be an application made under section 150 of the Act to approve a proposed arrangement for organic goods certification operations; and (b) the QM manual for the QM system to which the application relates, read as one, are taken to be the proposed arrangement to which the application relates.

Note: Section 378 of the Act (which requires additional or corrected information in relation to an application to be given in certain circumstances) applies in relation to the application.

(3) Section 377, paragraph 379(1)(a) and subsection 379(4) of the Act do not apply in relation to the application. (4) The consideration period for the application for the purposes of section 379 of the Act starts on the day the commencement time occurs.

Note: The initial consideration period for the application is 120 days (see section 5‑18 of this instrument).