make any necessary preparations to accept direct debits and accept them with effect from the date specified in the authorisation.

To ensure that permit granting procedures do not act as barriers to investment, and that they do not have an adverse effect on the internal market, Member States should ensure that a decision on whether or not to grant permit requests concerning the deployment of electronic communications networks or new network elements should in any case be made available at the latest within four months, without prejudice to other specific deadlines or obligations laid down for the proper conduct of the procedure which are applicable to the permit granting procedure in accordance with national or Union law.

1. In the case of a biocidal product which has already been authorised in accordance with Articles 15, 25 or 28, and where all periods of protection of information according to Article 49 have expired, the receiving competent authority or the Agency may agree that a subsequent applicant for authorisation may refer to data provided by the first applicant, and if the periods of protection of information according to Article 49 have not expired, the receiving competent authority or the Agency may agree that a subsequent applicant for authorisation may refer to data p ...[+++]rovided by the first applicant pursuant to Article 52, in both cases in so far as the subsequent applicant can provide evidence that the biocidal product is similar to, and its active substances technically equivalent to, the one formerly authorised, including in terms of degree of purity and nature of impurities.

1. In the case of a biocidal product which has already been authorised in accordance with Articles 15, 25 or 28, and where all periods of protection of information according to Article 49 have expired, the receiving competent authority or the Agency may agree that a subsequent applicant for authorisation may refer to data provided by the first applicant, and if the periods of protection of information according to Article 49 have not expired, the receiving competent authority or the Agency may agree that a subsequent applicant for authorisation may refer to data p ...[+++]rovided by the first applicant pursuant to Article 52, in both cases in so far as the subsequent applicant can provide evidence that the biocidal product is similar to, and its active substances technically equivalent to, the one formerly authorised, including in terms of degree of purity and nature of impurities.

1. If further verification of the shipment is considered necessary before the competent authorities can decide whether a licence can be accepted, checks may be carried out to establish whether the shipment in question conforms to the information provided in the licence and where necessary to the records relating to the relevant licence which are held by the licensing authority.

40. Considers that the only acceptable kind of authorisation procedure is one under which decisions by the authorities will be made as directly as possible on the basis of the information obtained at the registration and evaluation stage; calls for consistent adherence to the precautionary principle advocated by the Commission, which provides for risk-management measures, scientific risk-assessment, proportionality and a cost-benefit analysis;