1. Where the Commission requests from an applicant additional information on matters concerning risk management, it shall determine, together with the applicant, the period within which that information is to be provided. In such cases, the period provided for in Article 12(1) or (2) or in Article 18(1) may be extended accordingly. The Commission shall inform the Member States of that extension and shall make the additional information available to Member States once it has been received.
2. Where the additional information referred to in paragraph 1 is not received within the additional period referred to in that paragraph, the Commission shall act on the basis of the available information.