Recital 14

(14)To manage the submissions of additional scientific data requested by the Authority, time limits should be set for the persons responsible for placing flavouring substances on the market so as to comply with the Authority's requests as expressed in the published opinions. Therefore, footnotes 2 to 4 have been assigned for those substances for which the Authority has requested additional scientific data in the list referred to in Regulation (EC) No 2232/96. A time limit should be set for the Authority to evaluate the submitted data. Where the necessary information is not provided by the time requested the flavouring substance in question may not be evaluated in accordance with Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1565/2000 and therefore will be withdrawn from the Union list in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council ¹³ .