Article 4
1. Any producer wishing to secure the inclusion of an active substance referred to in Annex I hereto, or any salts, esters or amines thereof, in Annex I to the Directive, shall so notify the Commission within six months of the date of entry into force of this Regulation. Without prejudice to the foregoing subparagraph, producers of an active substance listed in Annex I are also bound to inform the Commission within the same period when they no longer seek its inclusion in Annex I to the Directive. 2. Notification must be made to the Commission, DG VI, rue de la Loi 200, B-1049 Brussels, in accordance with the notification as shown in Annex II hereto, completed and containing the undertaking referred to in part 5 of the specimen notification. 3. Any producer who has not notified in time any given active substance referred to in paragraph 1 will be permitted to participate in the programme referred to in Article 1 only collectively with other notifiers of that active substance or, in the case referred to in paragraph 4 hereof, in assisting the notifying Member State, with the agreement of the original notifiers. 4. The Commission shall inform the Member States through the Committee when, for any given active substance, no producer has presented a notification in accordance with paragraph 2. Member States shall be able to declare their interest in securing the inclusion of the active substance in Annex I to the Directive, by means of the specimen notification shown in Annex II hereto. Notification must be sent to the Commission as quickly as possible, and no later than six months after the Member States have been informed by the Commission. The Member State having presented the notification shall carry out the duties of a producer as set out in Articles 5 to 8 hereof. 5. When, following the above procedure, no producer or Member State has notified an interest in obtaining the inclusion of a given active substance in Annex I to the Directive, a decision not to include that active substance may be taken in accordance with the final subparagraph of Article 8 (2) of the Directive.