Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 790/2013 of 19 August 2013 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the conditions of approval of the active substance acetic acid Text with EEA relevance

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) No 790/2013
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2014.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

In Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, row 218 on the active substance acetic acid is replaced by the following:

Number

Common Name, Identification Numbers

IUPAC Name

Purity

Date of approval

Expiration of approval

Specific provisions

‘218

Acetic acid

CAS No 64-19-7

CIPAC 838

acetic acid

≥ 980 g/kg

1 September 2009

31 August 2019

PART A

Only uses as herbicide may be authorised.

PART B

For the implementation of the uniform principles as referred to in Article 29(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the conclusions of the review report on acetic acid (SANCO/2602/2008) and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as finalised in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 16 July 2013, shall be taken into account.

In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to the protection of operators, the protection of groundwater and the protection of aquatic organisms.

Conditions of use shall include, where appropriate, risk mitigation measures.

The notifier shall submit confirmatory information as regards:

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the acute and long-term risk to birds and mammals,

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the risk to honeybees,

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the risk to non-target arthropods.

The notifier shall submit that information to the Commission, the Member States and the Authority by 31 December 2015.’