Commission Directive 2012/43/EU of 26 November 2012 amending certain headings of Annex I to Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Text with EEA relevance

Directive 2012/43/EU · Directive · 5 articles

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Article 1

Annex I to Directive 98/8/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 31 March 2013 at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions. 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. 2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Supplementary provisions

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX In Annex I to Directive 98/8/EC, the first row, which contains the headings to all entries, shall read as follows: ‘No Common Name IUPAC Name Identification Numbers Minimum degree of purity of the active substance ( *1 ) Date of inclusion Deadline for compliance with Article 16(3), unless one of the exceptions indicated in the footnote to this heading applies ( *2 ) Expiry date of inclusion Product type Specific provisions ( *3 ) ( *1 ) The purity indicated in this column was the minimum degree of purity of the active substance used for the evaluation made in accordance with Article 11. The active substance in the product placed on the market can be of equal or different purity if it has been proven technically equivalent with the evaluated substance. ( *2 ) For products containing more than one active substance covered by Article 16(2), the deadline for compliance with Article 16(3) is that of the last of its active substances to be included in this Annex. For products for which the first authorisation has been granted later than 120 days before the deadline for compliance with Article 16(3) and a complete application has been submitted for mutual recognition in accordance with Article 4(1) within 60 days of the granting of the first authorisation, the deadline for compliance with Article 16(3) in relation to that application is extended to 120 days after the date of reception of the complete application for mutual recognition. For products for which a Member State has proposed to derogate from mutual recognition in accordance with Article 4(4), the deadline for compliance with Article 16(3) is extended to 30 days after the date of the Commission Decision adopted in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 4(4). ( *3 ) For the implementation of the common principles of Annex VI, the content and conclusions of assessment reports are available on the Commission website: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/biocides/index.htm’

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