Article 20 — Transmission of preliminary findings to complainants

1. Where the lead supervisory authority issues preliminary findings relating to a matter in respect of which it has received a complaint, the supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall provide the complainant with those preliminary findings, in accordance with rules on access to the administrative file and on confidential information under Articles 24 and 25, and the lead supervisory authority shall set an appropriate time-limit no shorter than three weeks and no longer than six weeks, within which the complainant may make his or her views known in writing. 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, administrative modalities and requirements under national procedural law of the supervisory authority with which the complaint has been lodged shall continue to apply. 3. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall also apply where the lead supervisory authority: (a) handles a complaint jointly with other complaints; (b) handles a part of a complaint separately; or (c) modifies the scope of the investigation in the preliminary findings in any way, including after a binding decision of the Board pursuant to Article 11(8).