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Commission Implementing Directive 2011/57/EU of 27 April 2011 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include fluometuron as active substance and amending Commission Decision 2008/934/EC Text with EEA relevance

Directive 2011/57/EU · Directive · 7 articles

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Article 1

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Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC is amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

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The line concerning fluometuron in the Annex to Decision 2008/934/EC is deleted.

Article 3

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Member States shall adopt and publish by 30 November 2011 at the latest the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive. They shall apply those provisions from 1 December 2011. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

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1. Member States shall in accordance with Directive 91/414/EEC, where necessary, amend or withdraw existing authorisations for plant protection products containing fluometuron as an active substance by 30 November 2011. By that date they shall in particular verify that the conditions in Annex I to that Directive relating to fluometuron are met, with the exception of those identified in Part B of the entry concerning that active substance, and that the holder of the authorisation has, or has access to, a dossier satisfying the requirements of Annex II to that Directive in accordance with the conditions of Article 13 of that Directive. 2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, for each authorised plant protection product containing fluometuron as either the only active substance or as one of several active substances all of which were listed in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC by 31 May 2011 at the latest, Member States shall re-evaluate the product in accordance with the uniform principles provided for in Annex VI to Directive 91/414/EEC, on the basis of a dossier satisfying the requirements of Annex III to that Directive and taking into account Part B of the entry in Annex I to that Directive concerning fluometuron. On the basis of that evaluation, they shall determine whether the product satisfies the conditions set out in Article 4(1)(b), (c), (d) and (e) of Directive 91/414/EEC. Following that determination Member States shall: (a) in the case of a product containing fluometuron as the only active substance, where necessary, amend or withdraw the authorisation by 31 May 2015 at the latest; or (b) in the case of a product containing fluometuron as one of several active substances, where necessary, amend or withdraw the authorisation by 31 May 2015 or by the date fixed for such an amendment or withdrawal in the respective Directive or Directives which added the relevant substance or substances to Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC, whichever is the latest.

Article 5

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This Directive shall enter into force on 1 June 2011.

Article 6

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This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Supplementary provisions

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ANNEX The following entry shall be added at the end of the table in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC: No Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity ( 1 ) Entry into force Expiration of inclusion Specific provisions ‘343 Fluometuron CAS No: 2164-17-2 CIPAC No: 159 1,1-dimethyl-3 -(α,α,α - trifluoro-m-tolyl)urea ≥ 940 g/kg 1 June 2011 31 May 2021 PART A Only uses as herbicide on cotton may be authorised. PART B For the implementation of the uniform principles of Annex VI, the conclusions of the review report on fluometuron, and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as finalised in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 11 March 2011 shall be taken into account. In this overall assessment Member States shall: (a) pay particular attention to the protection of the operators and workers and ensure that conditions of use include the application of adequate personal protective equipment; (b) pay particular attention to the protection of the groundwater where the active substance is applied in regions with vulnerable soil and/or climatic conditions; they shall ensure that conditions of authorisation include risk mitigation measures and the obligation to carry out monitoring programmes to verify potential leaching of fluometuron and soil metabolites desmethyl-fluometuron and trifluoromethylaniline in vulnerable areas, where appropriate; (c) pay particular attention to the risk to non-target soil macro-organisms others than earthworms and non-target plants, and ensure that conditions of authorisation include risk mitigation measures, where appropriate. The Member States concerned shall ensure that the applicants submit to the Commission confirmatory information as regards: (a) the toxicological properties of the plant metabolite trifluoroacetic acid; (b) the analytical methods for the monitoring of fluometuron in air; (c) the analytical methods for the monitoring of the soil metabolite trifluoromethylaniline in soil and water; (d) the relevance for ground water of the soil metabolites desmethyl-fluometuron and trifluoromethylaniline, if fluometuron is classified under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 as “suspected of causing cancer”. The Member States concerned shall ensure that the applicants submit to the Commission the information set out in points (a), (b) and (c) by 31 March 2013 and the information set out in point (d) within 6 months from the notification of the decision classifying fluometuron.’ ( 1 ) Further details on identity and specification of active substance are provided in the review report.

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