
Article 1 
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013 is amended as follows:

((1)) The following Article 8a is inserted:
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Article 8a 

1. The competent authorities of the Member States shall submit the technical files for established geographical indications referred to in Article 20(1) of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 to the Commission using the information systems referred to in Annex VI.The files shall be deemed to have been submitted on the date of their receipt by the Commission.
2. The Commission shall confirm receipt of the technical files to the competent authorities of the Member States through the information systems referred to in Annex VI. It shall attribute a file number to each file.The confirmation of receipt shall include at least the following elements:
(a) the file number;
(b) the name concerned; and
(c) the date of receipt.The Commission shall notify and make available information and remarks regarding the technical files using the information systems referred to in Annex VI.
3. Articles 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Regulation (EC) No 792/2009 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the notification and making available of information, as referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.The notifications referred to in Article 4(2)(a)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 792/2009 shall be made at the latest 10 days after the date of application of this Regulation.'
((2)) Annex VI is added in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply as from 1 January 2015.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 19 November 2014.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX


ANNEX VI 
In order to obtain instructions on how to access and use the information systems made available by the Commission to the Member States, the competent authorities of Member States shall contact the Commission at the following address:

Functional mailbox: AGRI-EXT-HELPDESK@ec.europa.eu

