Amendment to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011
Article 1
In the seventh column, ‘specific provisions’, of entry 174 on diflubenzuron of Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, the text is replaced by the following: ‘Only uses as insecticide in non-edible crops may be authorised. 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 diflubenzuron, and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as amended in the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed on 23 March 2017 shall be taken into account. In this overall assessment Member States must pay particular attention to: — the specification of the technical material as commercially manufactured, which must be confirmed and supported by appropriate analytical data. The test material used in the toxicity dossiers shall be compared and verified against this specification of the technical material; — the protection of aquatic organisms, terrestrial organisms and non-target arthropods including bees; — the potential unintended exposure of food and feed crops to diflubenzuron from uses on non-edible crops (e.g. through spray drift); — the protection of workers, residents and bystanders. Member States shall ensure that crops treated with diflubenzuron do not enter the food and feed chain. Conditions of use shall include adequate risk mitigation measures, where appropriate.’