# Official Journal L 125/2021

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| English edition | Legislation | Volume 6413 April 2021 |

ISSN 1977-0677

Official Journal

of the European Union

L 125

English edition

Legislation

Volume 6413 April 2021

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| | | REGULATIONS |
| | * | Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/587 of 12 April 2021 implementing Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran | 1 |
| | * | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/588 of 6 April 2021 approving non-minor amendments to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications Stelvio/Stilfser (PDO) | 11 |
| | * | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/589 of 9 April 2021 amending for the 320th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations | 13 |
| | * | Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/590 of 12 April 2021 amending Annexes II and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for aclonifen, boscalid, cow milk, etofenprox, ferric pyrophosphate, L-cysteine, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr in or on certain products (
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| | * | Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/591 of 12 April 2021 entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Χαλλούμι (Halloumi)/Hellim (PDO)) | 42 |
| | | DECISIONS |
| | * | Council Decision (EU) 2021/592 of 7 April 2021 on the submission, on behalf of the European Union, of a proposal for the listing of chlorpyrifos in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants | 52 |
| | * | Council Decision (EU) 2021/593 of 9 April 2021 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation and within the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine on the adoption of standards concerning harmonised river information services | 54 |
| | * | Council Decision (EU) 2021/594 of 9 April 2021 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation and within the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine on the adoption of standards concerning professional qualifications in inland navigation | 56 |
| | * | Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/595 of 12 April 2021 amending Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran | 58 |

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REGULATIONS

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Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/587 of 12 April 2021 implementing Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran

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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/588 of 6 April 2021 approving non-minor amendments to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications Stelvio/Stilfser (PDO)

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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/589 of 9 April 2021 amending for the 320th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations

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Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/590 of 12 April 2021 amending Annexes II and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for aclonifen, boscalid, cow milk, etofenprox, ferric pyrophosphate, L-cysteine, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr in or on certain products (
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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/591 of 12 April 2021 entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Χαλλούμι (Halloumi)/Hellim (PDO))

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DECISIONS

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Council Decision (EU) 2021/592 of 7 April 2021 on the submission, on behalf of the European Union, of a proposal for the listing of chlorpyrifos in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

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Council Decision (EU) 2021/593 of 9 April 2021 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation and within the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine on the adoption of standards concerning harmonised river information services

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Council Decision (EU) 2021/594 of 9 April 2021 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation and within the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine on the adoption of standards concerning professional qualifications in inland navigation

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Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/595 of 12 April 2021 amending Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran

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Acts whose titles are printed in light type are those relating to day-to-day management of agricultural matters, and are generally valid for a limited period.

The titles of all other Acts are printed in bold type and preceded by an asterisk.

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REGULATIONS

| 13.4.2021 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 125/1 |
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13.4.2021

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 125/1

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COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/587

of 12 April 2021

implementing Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 of 12 April 2011 concerning restrictive measures against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran (1), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:

| (1) | On 12 April 2011, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 359/2011. |
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On 12 April 2011, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 359/2011.

| (2) | On the basis of a review of Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP (2), the Council has decided that the restrictive measures set out therein should be renewed until 13 April 2022. |
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On the basis of a review of Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP (2), the Council has decided that the restrictive measures set out therein should be renewed until 13 April 2022.

| (3) | One person designated in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 is deceased, and his entry should be removed from that Annex. The Council has also concluded that the entries concerning 34 persons and one entity included in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 should be updated. |
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One person designated in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 is deceased, and his entry should be removed from that Annex. The Council has also concluded that the entries concerning 34 persons and one entity included in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 should be updated.

| (4) | Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly, |
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Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 April 2021.

For the Council

The President

A. P. ZACARIAS

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  OJ L 100, 14.4.2011, p. 1.

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(2)  Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP of 12 April 2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran (OJ L 100, 14.4.2011, p. 51).

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ANNEX

Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 (‘List of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 2(1)’) is amended as follows:

| (1) | entry 16 (concerning HADDAD Hassan (alias Hassan ZAREH DEHNAVI) in the list headed ‘Persons’ is deleted; |
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entry 16 (concerning HADDAD Hassan (alias Hassan ZAREH DEHNAVI) in the list headed ‘Persons’ is deleted;

| (2) | the entries for the following 34 persons and one entity are replaced by the following:
  Persons | Name | Identifying information | Reasons | Date of listing |
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| ‘1. | AHMADI-MOQADDAM Esmail | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: 1961
  Gender: male | Former Senior Advisor for Security Affairs to the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff. Chief of Iran’s National Police from 2005 until early 2015. Also Head of the Iranian Cyber Police (listed) from January 2011 until early 2015. Forces under his command led brutal attacks on peaceful protests and a violent night-time attack on the dormitories of Tehran University on 15 June 2009. Former head of Iran’s Headquarters in support of the Yemeni People. | 12.4.2011 |
| 4. | FAZLI Ali | Gender: male
  Title: Brigadier-General | Former Chief of the Imam Hossein Cadet College (2018-June 2020). Former deputy Commander of the Basij (2009-2018), Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province (until February 2010). The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps is in charge of security in Tehran province and played a key role in the brutal repression of protesters in 2009. | 12.4.2011 |
| 8. | MOTLAGH Bahram Hosseini | Gender: male | Member of the teaching staff of Imam Hossein University (Guardians of the Revolution). Former Head of the Army Command and General Staff College (DAFOOS). Former Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province. The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps played a key role in organising the repression of protests in 2009. | 12.4.2011 |
| 11. | RAJABZADEH Azizollah | Gender: male | Commander of the Urban Order Headquarters since 2014. Former Head of Tehran Disaster Mitigation Organisation (2010-2013). As Head of Tehran Police until January 2010, he was responsible for violent police attacks on protesters and students. As Commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in the Greater Tehran, he was the highest ranking accused in the case of abuses in Kahrizak Detention Centre in December 2009. | 12.4.2011 |
| 15. | DORRI-NADJAFABADI Ghorban-Ali | POB: Najafabad (Iran)
  DOB: 3.12.1950
  Gender: male | Member of the Assembly of Experts and representative of the Supreme Leader in Markazi (“Central”) Province and Head of the Supreme Administrative Court. Prosecutor General of Iran until September 2009, as well as former Intelligence Minister under Khatami presidency. As Prosecutor General of Iran, he ordered and supervised the show trials following the first post-election protests, where the accused were denied their rights and access to an attorney. | 12.4.2011 |
| 19. | JAFARI-DOLATABADI Abbas | POB: Yazd (Iran)
  DOB: 1953
  Gender: male | Advisor to the Supreme Disciplinary Court of judges since 29 April 2019. Former Prosecutor General of Tehran (August 2009-April 2019). Dolatabadi’s office indicted a large number of protesters, including individuals who took part in the December 2009 Ashura Day protests. He ordered the closure of Karroubi’s office in September 2009 and the arrest of several reformist politicians, and he banned two reformist political parties in June 2010. His office charged protesters with “Muharebeh”, or “enmity against God”, which carries the death penalty, and denied due process to those facing the death penalty. His office also targeted and arrested reformists, human rights activists and members of the media, as part of a broad crackdown on the political opposition.
  In October 2018 he announced to the media that four detained Iranian environmental activists were to be charged with “sowing corruption on earth”, a charge which carries the death penalty. | 12.4.2011 |
| 21. | MOHSENI-EJEI Gholam-Hossein | POB: Ejiyeh (Iran)
  DOB: circa 1956
  Gender: male | Member of the Expediency Council. Prosecutor General of Iran from September 2009 until 2014. Formerly Deputy Head and spokesperson of the Judiciary. Former Intelligence Minister during the 2009 elections. While he was Intelligence Minister during the 2009 election, intelligence agents under his command were responsible for detention, torture and extraction of false confessions under pressure from hundreds of activists, journalists, dissidents and reformist politicians. In addition, political figures were coerced into making false confessions under unbearable interrogation, which included torture, abuse, blackmail and the threatening of family members. | 12.4.2011 |
| 22. | MORTAZAVI Said | POB: Meybod, Yazd (Iran)
  DOB: 1967
  Gender: male | Head of the Welfare System from 2011 to 2013. Prosecutor General of Tehran until August 2009. As Prosecutor General of Tehran, he issued a blanket order used for the detention of hundreds of activists, journalists and students. In January 2010 a parliamentary investigation held him directly responsible for the detention of three prisoners who subsequently died in custody. He was suspended from office in August 2010 after an investigation by the Iranian judiciary into his role in the deaths of the three men detained on his orders following the election.
  In November 2014, his role in the deaths of detainees was officially recognised by the Iranian authorities. He was acquitted by an Iranian Court on 19 August 2015, on charges connected to the torture and deaths of three young men at the Kahrizak detention centre in 2009. Sentenced to prison in 2017 and released in September 2019. | 12.4.2011 |
| 27. | ZARGAR Ahmad | Gender: male | Judge at the Supreme Court and Chief of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Head of the “Organization for the Preservation of Morality”. Former judge at the 2nd Branch of the Special Economic Corruption Court. Former judge, Tehran Appeals Court, Branch 36.
  He confirmed long-term jail warrants and death warrants against protesters. | 12.4.2011 |
| 33. | ABBASZADEH-MESHKINI Mahmoud | Gender: male | Member of Parliament since February 2020. Former Advisor to Iran’s High Council for Human Rights (until 2019). Former secretary of the High Council for Human Rights. Former Governor of Ilam Province. Former Political Director of the Interior Ministry. As Head of the Article 10 Committee of the Law on Activities of Political Parties and Groups, he was in charge of authorising demonstrations and other public events and registering political parties.
  In 2010, he suspended the activities of two reformist political parties linked to Mousavi – the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mujahedeen Organisation. From 2009 onwards he has consistently and continuously prohibited all non-governmental gatherings, therefore denying a constitutional right to protest and leading to many arrests of peaceful demonstrators in contravention of the right to freedom of assembly.
  In 2009 he also denied the opposition a permit for a ceremony to mourn people killed in protests over the Presidential elections. | 10.10.2011 |
| 34. | AKBARSHAHI Ali-Reza | Gender: male | Former Director-General of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (a.k.a. Anti-Narcotics Headquarters). Former Commander of Tehran Police. Under his leadership, the police force was responsible for the use of extrajudicial force on suspects during arrest and pre-trial detention. The Tehran police were also implicated in raids on Tehran university dorms in June 2009 when, according to an Iranian Majlis commission, more than 100 students were injured by the police and Basiji. Until 2018, head of the railway police. | 10.10.2011 |
| 36. | AVAEE Seyyed Ali-Reza (a.k.a. AVAEE Seyyed Alireza, AVAIE Alireza) | POB: Dezful (Iran)
  DOB: 20.5.1956
  Gender: male | Minister of Justice. Former Director of the special investigations office. Until July 2016 Deputy Minister of the Interior and Head of the Public Register. Advisor to the Disciplinary Court for Judges since April 2014. Former President of the Tehran Judiciary. As President of the Tehran Judiciary he has been responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and a high number of executions. | 10.10.2011 |
| 39. | GANJI Mostafa Barzegar | Gender: male | General Director of Inspection Supervision and Performance Evaluation of Courts since June 2020. Former Prosecutor General of Qom (2008-2017) and former Head of the Directorate-General for prisons. He was responsible for the arbitrary detention and maltreatment of dozens of offenders in Qom. He was complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty and a sharp increase in executions in 2009/2010. | 10.10.2011 |
| 40. | HABIBI Mohammad Reza | Gender: male | Chief Justice of Isfahan. Former Attorney General of Isfahan. Former Head of the Ministry of Justice office in Yazd. Former Deputy Prosecutor of Isfahan. Complicit in proceedings denying defendants a fair trial – such as Abdollah Fathi, executed in May 2011 after his right to be heard and mental health issues were ignored by Habibi during his trial in March 2010. He was, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to a sharp increase in executions in 2011. | 10.10.2011 |
| 41. | HEJAZI Mohammad | POB: Ispahan (Iran)
  DOB: 1956
  Gender: male | Deputy Commander of IRGC’s Quds Force since 2020 as a result of the reorganisation of its chain of command following the killing of General Qasem Soleimani. As IRGC-General he has played a key role in intimidating and threatening Iran’s “enemies”. Former Head of the IRGC’s Sarollah Corps in Tehran, and former Head of the Basij Forces, he played a central role in the post-election crackdown on protesters in 2009. | 10.10.2011 |
| 44. | JAZAYERI Massoud | Gender: male
  Title: Brigadier-General | Cultural advisor to the Joint Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces since April 2018. Within the joint military staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Brigadier-General Massoud Jazayeri was the Deputy Chief of Staff for cultural and media affairs (a.k.a. State Defence Publicity HQ). He actively collaborated in the repression of 2009 protests as Deputy Chief of Staff. He warned in a Kayhan interview that many protesters inside and outside Iran had been identified and would be dealt with at the right time.
  He has openly called for the suppression of foreign mass media outlets and the Iranian opposition. In 2010, he asked the government to pass tougher laws against Iranians who cooperate with foreign media sources. | 10.10.2011 |
| 45. | JOKAR Mohammad Saleh | POB: Yazd (Iran)
  DOB: 1957
  Gender: male | Member of Parliament for the Province of Yazd. Former Deputy for Parliamentary Affairs of the Revolutionary Guards. From 2011 to 2016, parliamentary deputy for the Province of Yazd and Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy. Former Commander of Student Basij Forces. In this role, he was actively involved in suppressing protests and indoctrinating children and young people with a view to continuing suppression of free speech and dissent. As Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy, he publically supported the suppression of opposition to the government. | 10.10.2011 |
| 46. | KAMALIAN Behrouz (a.k.a. Hackers Brain, Behrooz_Ice) | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: 1983
  Gender: male | Head of the “Ashiyaneh” cyber group linked with the Iranian regime. The “Ashiyaneh” Digital Security, founded by Behrouz Kamalian, is responsible for intensive cyber attacks both on domestic opponents and reformists and foreign institutions. Kamalian’s “Ashiyaneh” organisation’s work has assisted the regime’s crackdown against the opposition, which has involved numerous serious human rights violations in 2009. Both Kamalian and the “Ashiyaneh” cyber group have continued their activities until at least January 2020. | 10.10.2011 |
| 47. | KHALILOLLAHI Moussa (a.k.a. KHALILOLLAHI Mousa, ELAHI Mousa Khalil) | POB: Tabriz (Iran)
  DOB: 1963
  Gender: male | Prosecutor of Tabriz from 2010 to 2019. He was involved in Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s case and is complicit in grave violations of the right to due process. | 10.10.2011 |
| 48. | MAHSOULI Sadeq (a.k.a. MAHSULI Sadeq) | POB: Oroumieh (Iran)
  DOB: 1959/1960
  Gender: male | Deputy Secretary-General of the Paydari Front (Front of Islamic Stability). Former Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former member of the Expediency Council and former Deputy Chief of the Perseverance Front. Minister of Welfare and Social Security between 2009 and 2011. Minister of the Interior until August 2009. As Minister of the Interior, Mahsouli had authority over all police forces, interior ministry security agents, and plain-clothes agents. The forces under his direction were responsible for attacks on the dormitories of Tehran University on 14 June 2009 and the torture of students in the basement of the Ministry (the notorious basement level 4). Other protestors were severely abused at the Kahrizak Detention Centre, which was operated by police under Mahsouli’s control. | 10.10.2011 |
| 53. | TALA Hossein (a.k.a. TALA Hosseyn) | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: 1969
  Gender: male | Mayor of Eslamshahr. Former Iranian MP. Former Governor-General (“Farmandar”) of Tehran Province until September 2010, he was responsible for the intervention of police forces and therefore for the repression of demonstrations. He received a prize in December 2010 for his role in the post-election repression. | 10.10.2011 |
| 54. | TAMADDON Morteza (a.k.a. TAMADON Morteza) | POB: Shahr Kord-Isfahan (Iran)
  DOB: 1959
  Gender: male | Former Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council. Former IRGC Governor-General of Tehran Province. In his capacity as Governor and Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council, he bore overall responsibility for all repressive activities undertaken by the IRGC in Tehran Province, including cracking down on political protests since June 2009. Currently board member at Khajeh Nasireddin Tusi University of Technology. | 10.10.2011 |
| 60. | HOSSEINI Dr Mohammad (a.k.a. HOSSEYNI Dr Seyyed Mohammad; Seyed, Sayyed and Sayyid) | POB: Rafsanjan, Kerman (Iran)
  DOB: 23.7.1961
  Gender: male | Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and spokesperson for YEKTA, a hardline political faction. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance (2009-2013). Ex-IRGC, he was complicit in the repression of journalists. | 10.10.2011 |
| 63. | TAGHIPOUR Reza | POB: Maragheh (Iran)
  DOB: 1957
  Gender: male | Member of the 11th Iranian parliament (Tehran constituency). Member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former Member of the City Council of Teheran. Former Minister for Information and Communications (2009-2012).
  As Minister for Information, he was one of the top officials in charge of censorship and control of internet activities and also all types of communications (in particular mobile phones). During interrogations of political detainees, the interrogators make use of the detainees’ personal data, mail and communications. On several occasions following the 2009 presidential election and during street demonstrations, mobile lines and text messaging were blocked, satellite TV channels were jammed and the internet locally suspended or at least slowed down. | 23.3.2012 |
| 65. | LARIJANI Sadeq | POB: Najaf (Iraq)
  DOB: 1960 or August 1961
  Gender: male | Named Head of the Expediency Council on 29 December 2018. Former Head of the Judiciary (2009-2019). The Head of the Judiciary is required to consent to and sign off every qisas (retribution), hodoud (crimes against God) and ta’zirat (crimes against the state) punishment. This includes sentences carrying the death penalty, floggings and amputations. In this regard, he has personally signed off numerous death penalty sentences, contravening international standards, including stoning, executions by suspension strangulation, execution of juveniles, and public executions such as those where prisoners have been hanged from bridges in front of crowds of thousands. Therefore, he has contributed to a high number of executions. He has also permitted corporal punishment sentences such as amputations and the dripping of acid into the eyes of the convicted. Since Sadeq Larijani took office, arbitrary arrests of political prisoners, human rights defenders and minorities have increased markedly. Sadeq Larijani also bears responsibility for systemic failures in the Iranian judicial process with respect to the right to a fair trial. | 23.3.2012 |
| 66. | MIRHEJAZI Ali | Gender: male | Part of the Supreme Leader’s inner circle, one of those responsible for planning the suppression of protests, which has been implemented since 2009, and associated with those responsible for supressing the protests.
  He was also responsible for planning the suppression of public unrest in December 2017/2018 and November 2019. | 23.3.2012 |
| 67. | SAEEDI Ali | Gender: male | Head of the Supreme Leader’s political ideology bureau. Former representative of the Supreme Leader for the Pasdaran (1995-2020) after spending his whole career within the institution of the military, and specifically in the Pasdaran intelligence service. This official role made him the key figure in the transmission of orders emanating from the Office of the Supreme Leader to the Pasdaran’s repression apparatus. | 23.3.2012 |
| 69. | MORTAZAVI Seyyed Solat | POB: Farsan, Tchar Mahal-o-Bakhtiari (South) – (Iran)
  DOB: 1967
  Gender: male | Since 16 September 2019, head of the real estate branch of the Mostazafan Foundation, which is directly run by Supreme Leader Khamenei. Until November 2019, Director of the Tehran branch of the Foundation Astan Qods Razavi. Former mayor of the second largest city of Iran, Mashhad, where public executions regularly happen. Former Deputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs, appointed in 2009. In this capacity, he was responsible for directing repression of persons who spoke up in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression. Later appointed as Head of the Iranian Election Committee for the parliamentarian elections in 2012 and for the presidential elections in 2013. | 23.3.2012 |
| 73. | FARHADI Ali | Gender: male | Deputy Head of Inspectorate of Legal Affairs and Public Inspection of the Ministry of Justice of Tehran. Former prosecutor of Karaj. Responsible for grave violations of human rights, including prosecuting trials in which the death penalty was handed down. There were a high number of executions in Karaj region during his time as prosecutor. | 23.3.2012 |
| 79. | RASHIDI AGHDAM Ali Ashraf | Gender: male | Former head of Evin Prison (2012-2015). During his tenure, conditions in the prison deteriorated and reports referenced intensified ill-treatment of prisoners. In October 2012, nine female prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of the violation of their rights and violent treatment by prison guards. | 12.3.2013 |
| 82. | SARAFRAZ Mohammad (Dr.) (a.k.a. Haj-agha Sarafraz) | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: circa 1963
  Place of residence: Tehran
  Gender: male | Former member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) (2014-2016). Former Head of IRIB World Service and Press TV, responsible for all programming decisions. Closely associated with the state security apparatus. Under his direction, Press TV, along with IRIB, has worked with the Iranian security services and prosecutors to broadcast forced confessions of detainees, including that of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari, in the weekly programme “Iran Today”. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting Bahari’s confession in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. Sarafraz is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial. | 12.3.2013 |
| 84. | EMADI Hamid Reza (a.k.a. Hamidreza Emadi) | POB: Hamedan (Iran)
  DOB: circa 1973
  Place of residence: Tehran
  Place of work: Press TV HQ, Tehran
  Gender: male | Press TV Newsroom Director. Former Press TV Senior Producer.
  Responsible for producing and broadcasting the forced confessions of detainees, including journalists, political activists and persons belonging to Kurdish and Arab minorities, violating internationally recognised rights to a fair trial and due process. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting the forced confession of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. NGOs have reported further instances of forced televised confessions by Press TV. Emadi is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial. | 12.3.2013 |
| 86. | MUSAVI-TABAR Seyyed Reza | POB: Jahrom (Iran)
  DOB: 1964
  Gender: male | Former head of the Revolutionary Prosecution of Shiraz. Responsible for illegal arrests and ill treatment of political activists, journalists, human rights defenders, Baha’is and prisoners of conscience, who were harassed, tortured, interrogated and denied access to lawyers and due process. Musavi-Tabar signed judicial orders in the notorious No 100 Detention Centre (a male prison), including an order to detain female Baha’i prisoner Raha Sabet for three years in solitary confinement. | 12.3.2013 |
| 87. | KHORAMABADI Abdolsamad | Gender: male | Deputy Director for Judicial Oversight (since 13 October 2018). Former head of the “Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content”, a governmental organisation in charge of online censorship and cyber crime. Under his leadership, the Commission defined “cyber crime” by a number of vague categories that criminalise creation and publication of content deemed inappropriate by the regime. He was responsible for repression and the blocking of numerous opposition sites, electronic newspapers, blogs, sites of human rights NGOs and of Google and Gmail since September 2012. He and the Commission actively contributed to the death in detention of the blogger Sattar Beheshti in November 2012. Thus the Commission he was heading is directly responsible for systemic violations of human rights, in particular by banning and filtering websites to the general public, and occasionally disabling internet access altogether. | 12.3.2013’ |

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the entries for the following 34 persons and one entity are replaced by the following:

Persons

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘1.

AHMADI-MOQADDAM Esmail

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: 1961

Gender: male

Former Senior Advisor for Security Affairs to the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff. Chief of Iran’s National Police from 2005 until early 2015. Also Head of the Iranian Cyber Police (listed) from January 2011 until early 2015. Forces under his command led brutal attacks on peaceful protests and a violent night-time attack on the dormitories of Tehran University on 15 June 2009. Former head of Iran’s Headquarters in support of the Yemeni People.

12.4.2011

4.

FAZLI Ali

Gender: male

Title: Brigadier-General

Former Chief of the Imam Hossein Cadet College (2018-June 2020). Former deputy Commander of the Basij (2009-2018), Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province (until February 2010). The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps is in charge of security in Tehran province and played a key role in the brutal repression of protesters in 2009.

12.4.2011

8.

MOTLAGH Bahram Hosseini

Gender: male

Member of the teaching staff of Imam Hossein University (Guardians of the Revolution). Former Head of the Army Command and General Staff College (DAFOOS). Former Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province. The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps played a key role in organising the repression of protests in 2009.

12.4.2011

11.

RAJABZADEH Azizollah

Gender: male

Commander of the Urban Order Headquarters since 2014. Former Head of Tehran Disaster Mitigation Organisation (2010-2013). As Head of Tehran Police until January 2010, he was responsible for violent police attacks on protesters and students. As Commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in the Greater Tehran, he was the highest ranking accused in the case of abuses in Kahrizak Detention Centre in December 2009.

12.4.2011

15.

DORRI-NADJAFABADI Ghorban-Ali

POB: Najafabad (Iran)

DOB: 3.12.1950

Gender: male

Member of the Assembly of Experts and representative of the Supreme Leader in Markazi (“Central”) Province and Head of the Supreme Administrative Court. Prosecutor General of Iran until September 2009, as well as former Intelligence Minister under Khatami presidency. As Prosecutor General of Iran, he ordered and supervised the show trials following the first post-election protests, where the accused were denied their rights and access to an attorney.

12.4.2011

19.

JAFARI-DOLATABADI Abbas

POB: Yazd (Iran)

DOB: 1953

Gender: male

Advisor to the Supreme Disciplinary Court of judges since 29 April 2019. Former Prosecutor General of Tehran (August 2009-April 2019). Dolatabadi’s office indicted a large number of protesters, including individuals who took part in the December 2009 Ashura Day protests. He ordered the closure of Karroubi’s office in September 2009 and the arrest of several reformist politicians, and he banned two reformist political parties in June 2010. His office charged protesters with “Muharebeh”, or “enmity against God”, which carries the death penalty, and denied due process to those facing the death penalty. His office also targeted and arrested reformists, human rights activists and members of the media, as part of a broad crackdown on the political opposition.

In October 2018 he announced to the media that four detained Iranian environmental activists were to be charged with “sowing corruption on earth”, a charge which carries the death penalty.

12.4.2011

21.

MOHSENI-EJEI Gholam-Hossein

POB: Ejiyeh (Iran)

DOB: circa 1956

Gender: male

Member of the Expediency Council. Prosecutor General of Iran from September 2009 until 2014. Formerly Deputy Head and spokesperson of the Judiciary. Former Intelligence Minister during the 2009 elections. While he was Intelligence Minister during the 2009 election, intelligence agents under his command were responsible for detention, torture and extraction of false confessions under pressure from hundreds of activists, journalists, dissidents and reformist politicians. In addition, political figures were coerced into making false confessions under unbearable interrogation, which included torture, abuse, blackmail and the threatening of family members.

12.4.2011

22.

MORTAZAVI Said

POB: Meybod, Yazd (Iran)

DOB: 1967

Gender: male

Head of the Welfare System from 2011 to 2013. Prosecutor General of Tehran until August 2009. As Prosecutor General of Tehran, he issued a blanket order used for the detention of hundreds of activists, journalists and students. In January 2010 a parliamentary investigation held him directly responsible for the detention of three prisoners who subsequently died in custody. He was suspended from office in August 2010 after an investigation by the Iranian judiciary into his role in the deaths of the three men detained on his orders following the election.

In November 2014, his role in the deaths of detainees was officially recognised by the Iranian authorities. He was acquitted by an Iranian Court on 19 August 2015, on charges connected to the torture and deaths of three young men at the Kahrizak detention centre in 2009. Sentenced to prison in 2017 and released in September 2019.

12.4.2011

27.

ZARGAR Ahmad

Gender: male

Judge at the Supreme Court and Chief of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Head of the “Organization for the Preservation of Morality”. Former judge at the 2nd Branch of the Special Economic Corruption Court. Former judge, Tehran Appeals Court, Branch 36.

He confirmed long-term jail warrants and death warrants against protesters.

12.4.2011

33.

ABBASZADEH-MESHKINI Mahmoud

Gender: male

Member of Parliament since February 2020. Former Advisor to Iran’s High Council for Human Rights (until 2019). Former secretary of the High Council for Human Rights. Former Governor of Ilam Province. Former Political Director of the Interior Ministry. As Head of the Article 10 Committee of the Law on Activities of Political Parties and Groups, he was in charge of authorising demonstrations and other public events and registering political parties.

In 2010, he suspended the activities of two reformist political parties linked to Mousavi – the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mujahedeen Organisation. From 2009 onwards he has consistently and continuously prohibited all non-governmental gatherings, therefore denying a constitutional right to protest and leading to many arrests of peaceful demonstrators in contravention of the right to freedom of assembly.

In 2009 he also denied the opposition a permit for a ceremony to mourn people killed in protests over the Presidential elections.

10.10.2011

34.

AKBARSHAHI Ali-Reza

Gender: male

Former Director-General of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (a.k.a. Anti-Narcotics Headquarters). Former Commander of Tehran Police. Under his leadership, the police force was responsible for the use of extrajudicial force on suspects during arrest and pre-trial detention. The Tehran police were also implicated in raids on Tehran university dorms in June 2009 when, according to an Iranian Majlis commission, more than 100 students were injured by the police and Basiji. Until 2018, head of the railway police.

10.10.2011

36.

AVAEE Seyyed Ali-Reza (a.k.a. AVAEE Seyyed Alireza, AVAIE Alireza)

POB: Dezful (Iran)

DOB: 20.5.1956

Gender: male

Minister of Justice. Former Director of the special investigations office. Until July 2016 Deputy Minister of the Interior and Head of the Public Register. Advisor to the Disciplinary Court for Judges since April 2014. Former President of the Tehran Judiciary. As President of the Tehran Judiciary he has been responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and a high number of executions.

10.10.2011

39.

GANJI Mostafa Barzegar

Gender: male

General Director of Inspection Supervision and Performance Evaluation of Courts since June 2020. Former Prosecutor General of Qom (2008-2017) and former Head of the Directorate-General for prisons. He was responsible for the arbitrary detention and maltreatment of dozens of offenders in Qom. He was complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty and a sharp increase in executions in 2009/2010.

10.10.2011

40.

HABIBI Mohammad Reza

Gender: male

Chief Justice of Isfahan. Former Attorney General of Isfahan. Former Head of the Ministry of Justice office in Yazd. Former Deputy Prosecutor of Isfahan. Complicit in proceedings denying defendants a fair trial – such as Abdollah Fathi, executed in May 2011 after his right to be heard and mental health issues were ignored by Habibi during his trial in March 2010. He was, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to a sharp increase in executions in 2011.

10.10.2011

41.

HEJAZI Mohammad

POB: Ispahan (Iran)

DOB: 1956

Gender: male

Deputy Commander of IRGC’s Quds Force since 2020 as a result of the reorganisation of its chain of command following the killing of General Qasem Soleimani. As IRGC-General he has played a key role in intimidating and threatening Iran’s “enemies”. Former Head of the IRGC’s Sarollah Corps in Tehran, and former Head of the Basij Forces, he played a central role in the post-election crackdown on protesters in 2009.

10.10.2011

44.

JAZAYERI Massoud

Gender: male

Title: Brigadier-General

Cultural advisor to the Joint Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces since April 2018. Within the joint military staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Brigadier-General Massoud Jazayeri was the Deputy Chief of Staff for cultural and media affairs (a.k.a. State Defence Publicity HQ). He actively collaborated in the repression of 2009 protests as Deputy Chief of Staff. He warned in a Kayhan interview that many protesters inside and outside Iran had been identified and would be dealt with at the right time.

He has openly called for the suppression of foreign mass media outlets and the Iranian opposition. In 2010, he asked the government to pass tougher laws against Iranians who cooperate with foreign media sources.

10.10.2011

45.

JOKAR Mohammad Saleh

POB: Yazd (Iran)

DOB: 1957

Gender: male

Member of Parliament for the Province of Yazd. Former Deputy for Parliamentary Affairs of the Revolutionary Guards. From 2011 to 2016, parliamentary deputy for the Province of Yazd and Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy. Former Commander of Student Basij Forces. In this role, he was actively involved in suppressing protests and indoctrinating children and young people with a view to continuing suppression of free speech and dissent. As Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy, he publically supported the suppression of opposition to the government.

10.10.2011

46.

KAMALIAN Behrouz (a.k.a. Hackers Brain, Behrooz_Ice)

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: 1983

Gender: male

Head of the “Ashiyaneh” cyber group linked with the Iranian regime. The “Ashiyaneh” Digital Security, founded by Behrouz Kamalian, is responsible for intensive cyber attacks both on domestic opponents and reformists and foreign institutions. Kamalian’s “Ashiyaneh” organisation’s work has assisted the regime’s crackdown against the opposition, which has involved numerous serious human rights violations in 2009. Both Kamalian and the “Ashiyaneh” cyber group have continued their activities until at least January 2020.

10.10.2011

47.

KHALILOLLAHI Moussa (a.k.a. KHALILOLLAHI Mousa, ELAHI Mousa Khalil)

POB: Tabriz (Iran)

DOB: 1963

Gender: male

Prosecutor of Tabriz from 2010 to 2019. He was involved in Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s case and is complicit in grave violations of the right to due process.

10.10.2011

48.

MAHSOULI Sadeq (a.k.a. MAHSULI Sadeq)

POB: Oroumieh (Iran)

DOB: 1959/1960

Gender: male

Deputy Secretary-General of the Paydari Front (Front of Islamic Stability). Former Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former member of the Expediency Council and former Deputy Chief of the Perseverance Front. Minister of Welfare and Social Security between 2009 and 2011. Minister of the Interior until August 2009. As Minister of the Interior, Mahsouli had authority over all police forces, interior ministry security agents, and plain-clothes agents. The forces under his direction were responsible for attacks on the dormitories of Tehran University on 14 June 2009 and the torture of students in the basement of the Ministry (the notorious basement level 4). Other protestors were severely abused at the Kahrizak Detention Centre, which was operated by police under Mahsouli’s control.

10.10.2011

53.

TALA Hossein (a.k.a. TALA Hosseyn)

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: 1969

Gender: male

Mayor of Eslamshahr. Former Iranian MP. Former Governor-General (“Farmandar”) of Tehran Province until September 2010, he was responsible for the intervention of police forces and therefore for the repression of demonstrations. He received a prize in December 2010 for his role in the post-election repression.

10.10.2011

54.

TAMADDON Morteza (a.k.a. TAMADON Morteza)

POB: Shahr Kord-Isfahan (Iran)

DOB: 1959

Gender: male

Former Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council. Former IRGC Governor-General of Tehran Province. In his capacity as Governor and Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council, he bore overall responsibility for all repressive activities undertaken by the IRGC in Tehran Province, including cracking down on political protests since June 2009. Currently board member at Khajeh Nasireddin Tusi University of Technology.

10.10.2011

60.

HOSSEINI Dr Mohammad (a.k.a. HOSSEYNI Dr Seyyed Mohammad; Seyed, Sayyed and Sayyid)

POB: Rafsanjan, Kerman (Iran)

DOB: 23.7.1961

Gender: male

Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and spokesperson for YEKTA, a hardline political faction. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance (2009-2013). Ex-IRGC, he was complicit in the repression of journalists.

10.10.2011

63.

TAGHIPOUR Reza

POB: Maragheh (Iran)

DOB: 1957

Gender: male

Member of the 11th Iranian parliament (Tehran constituency). Member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former Member of the City Council of Teheran. Former Minister for Information and Communications (2009-2012).

As Minister for Information, he was one of the top officials in charge of censorship and control of internet activities and also all types of communications (in particular mobile phones). During interrogations of political detainees, the interrogators make use of the detainees’ personal data, mail and communications. On several occasions following the 2009 presidential election and during street demonstrations, mobile lines and text messaging were blocked, satellite TV channels were jammed and the internet locally suspended or at least slowed down.

23.3.2012

65.

LARIJANI Sadeq

POB: Najaf (Iraq)

DOB: 1960 or August 1961

Gender: male

Named Head of the Expediency Council on 29 December 2018. Former Head of the Judiciary (2009-2019). The Head of the Judiciary is required to consent to and sign off every qisas (retribution), hodoud (crimes against God) and ta’zirat (crimes against the state) punishment. This includes sentences carrying the death penalty, floggings and amputations. In this regard, he has personally signed off numerous death penalty sentences, contravening international standards, including stoning, executions by suspension strangulation, execution of juveniles, and public executions such as those where prisoners have been hanged from bridges in front of crowds of thousands. Therefore, he has contributed to a high number of executions. He has also permitted corporal punishment sentences such as amputations and the dripping of acid into the eyes of the convicted. Since Sadeq Larijani took office, arbitrary arrests of political prisoners, human rights defenders and minorities have increased markedly. Sadeq Larijani also bears responsibility for systemic failures in the Iranian judicial process with respect to the right to a fair trial.

23.3.2012

66.

MIRHEJAZI Ali

Gender: male

Part of the Supreme Leader’s inner circle, one of those responsible for planning the suppression of protests, which has been implemented since 2009, and associated with those responsible for supressing the protests.

He was also responsible for planning the suppression of public unrest in December 2017/2018 and November 2019.

23.3.2012

67.

SAEEDI Ali

Gender: male

Head of the Supreme Leader’s political ideology bureau. Former representative of the Supreme Leader for the Pasdaran (1995-2020) after spending his whole career within the institution of the military, and specifically in the Pasdaran intelligence service. This official role made him the key figure in the transmission of orders emanating from the Office of the Supreme Leader to the Pasdaran’s repression apparatus.

23.3.2012

69.

MORTAZAVI Seyyed Solat

POB: Farsan, Tchar Mahal-o-Bakhtiari (South) – (Iran)

DOB: 1967

Gender: male

Since 16 September 2019, head of the real estate branch of the Mostazafan Foundation, which is directly run by Supreme Leader Khamenei. Until November 2019, Director of the Tehran branch of the Foundation Astan Qods Razavi. Former mayor of the second largest city of Iran, Mashhad, where public executions regularly happen. Former Deputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs, appointed in 2009. In this capacity, he was responsible for directing repression of persons who spoke up in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression. Later appointed as Head of the Iranian Election Committee for the parliamentarian elections in 2012 and for the presidential elections in 2013.

23.3.2012

73.

FARHADI Ali

Gender: male

Deputy Head of Inspectorate of Legal Affairs and Public Inspection of the Ministry of Justice of Tehran. Former prosecutor of Karaj. Responsible for grave violations of human rights, including prosecuting trials in which the death penalty was handed down. There were a high number of executions in Karaj region during his time as prosecutor.

23.3.2012

79.

RASHIDI AGHDAM Ali Ashraf

Gender: male

Former head of Evin Prison (2012-2015). During his tenure, conditions in the prison deteriorated and reports referenced intensified ill-treatment of prisoners. In October 2012, nine female prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of the violation of their rights and violent treatment by prison guards.

12.3.2013

82.

SARAFRAZ Mohammad (Dr.) (a.k.a. Haj-agha Sarafraz)

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: circa 1963

Place of residence: Tehran

Gender: male

Former member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) (2014-2016). Former Head of IRIB World Service and Press TV, responsible for all programming decisions. Closely associated with the state security apparatus. Under his direction, Press TV, along with IRIB, has worked with the Iranian security services and prosecutors to broadcast forced confessions of detainees, including that of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari, in the weekly programme “Iran Today”. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting Bahari’s confession in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. Sarafraz is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial.

12.3.2013

84.

EMADI Hamid Reza (a.k.a. Hamidreza Emadi)

POB: Hamedan (Iran)

DOB: circa 1973

Place of residence: Tehran

Place of work: Press TV HQ, Tehran

Gender: male

Press TV Newsroom Director. Former Press TV Senior Producer.

Responsible for producing and broadcasting the forced confessions of detainees, including journalists, political activists and persons belonging to Kurdish and Arab minorities, violating internationally recognised rights to a fair trial and due process. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting the forced confession of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. NGOs have reported further instances of forced televised confessions by Press TV. Emadi is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial.

12.3.2013

86.

MUSAVI-TABAR Seyyed Reza

POB: Jahrom (Iran)

DOB: 1964

Gender: male

Former head of the Revolutionary Prosecution of Shiraz. Responsible for illegal arrests and ill treatment of political activists, journalists, human rights defenders, Baha’is and prisoners of conscience, who were harassed, tortured, interrogated and denied access to lawyers and due process. Musavi-Tabar signed judicial orders in the notorious No 100 Detention Centre (a male prison), including an order to detain female Baha’i prisoner Raha Sabet for three years in solitary confinement.

12.3.2013

87.

KHORAMABADI Abdolsamad

Gender: male

Deputy Director for Judicial Oversight (since 13 October 2018). Former head of the “Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content”, a governmental organisation in charge of online censorship and cyber crime. Under his leadership, the Commission defined “cyber crime” by a number of vague categories that criminalise creation and publication of content deemed inappropriate by the regime. He was responsible for repression and the blocking of numerous opposition sites, electronic newspapers, blogs, sites of human rights NGOs and of Google and Gmail since September 2012. He and the Commission actively contributed to the death in detention of the blogger Sattar Beheshti in November 2012. Thus the Commission he was heading is directly responsible for systemic violations of human rights, in particular by banning and filtering websites to the general public, and occasionally disabling internet access altogether.

12.3.2013’

Entities

| | Name | Identifying information | Reasons | Date of listing |
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| ‘1. | Cyber Police | Location: Tehran (Iran)
  Website: http://www.cyberpolice.ir | The Iranian Cyber Police, founded in January 2011, is a unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, headed by Vahid Majid. From the time of its inception until early 2015 it was headed by Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam (listed). Ahmadi-Moqaddam underlined that the Cyber Police would take on anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who used internet-based social networks in 2009 to trigger protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In January 2012, the Cyber Police issued new guidelines for internet cafés, requiring users to provide personal information that would be kept by café owners for six months, as well as a record of the websites they visited. The rules also require café owners to install closed-circuit television cameras and maintain the recordings for six months. These new rules may create a logbook that authorities can use to track down activists or whoever is deemed a threat to national security.
  In June 2012, Iranian media reported that the Cyber Police would be launching a crackdown on virtual private networks (VPNs). On 30 October 2012, the Cyber Police arrested the blogger Sattar Beheshti without a warrant for “actions against national security on social networks and Facebook”. Beheshti had criticised the Iranian government in his blog. Beheshti was found dead in his prison cell on 3 November 2012, and is believed to have been tortured to death by the Cyber Police authorities. The Cyber Police is responsible for many arrests of Telegram Group Administrators in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019. | 12.3.2013’ |

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘1.

Cyber Police

Location: Tehran (Iran)

Website: http://www.cyberpolice.ir

The Iranian Cyber Police, founded in January 2011, is a unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, headed by Vahid Majid. From the time of its inception until early 2015 it was headed by Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam (listed). Ahmadi-Moqaddam underlined that the Cyber Police would take on anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who used internet-based social networks in 2009 to trigger protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In January 2012, the Cyber Police issued new guidelines for internet cafés, requiring users to provide personal information that would be kept by café owners for six months, as well as a record of the websites they visited. The rules also require café owners to install closed-circuit television cameras and maintain the recordings for six months. These new rules may create a logbook that authorities can use to track down activists or whoever is deemed a threat to national security.

In June 2012, Iranian media reported that the Cyber Police would be launching a crackdown on virtual private networks (VPNs). On 30 October 2012, the Cyber Police arrested the blogger Sattar Beheshti without a warrant for “actions against national security on social networks and Facebook”. Beheshti had criticised the Iranian government in his blog. Beheshti was found dead in his prison cell on 3 November 2012, and is believed to have been tortured to death by the Cyber Police authorities. The Cyber Police is responsible for many arrests of Telegram Group Administrators in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019.

12.3.2013’

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 125/11

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/588

of 6 April 2021

approving non-minor amendments to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications

‘Stelvio’/‘Stilfser’ (PDO)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (1), and in particular Article 52(2) thereof,

Whereas:

| (1) | Pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 53(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the Commission has examined Italy’s application for the approval of amendments to the specification for the protected designation of origin ‘Stelvio’/‘Stilfser’, registered under Commission Regulation (EC) No 148/2007 (2) as modified by the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1132/2013 (3). |
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(1)

Pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 53(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the Commission has examined Italy’s application for the approval of amendments to the specification for the protected designation of origin ‘Stelvio’/‘Stilfser’, registered under Commission Regulation (EC) No 148/2007 (2) as modified by the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1132/2013 (3).

| (2) | Since the amendments in question are not minor within the meaning of Article 53(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the Commission published the amendment application in the Official Journal of the European Union as required by Article 50(2)(a) of that Regulation. (4) |
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(2)

Since the amendments in question are not minor within the meaning of Article 53(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the Commission published the amendment application in the Official Journal of the European Union as required by Article 50(2)(a) of that Regulation. (4)

| (3) | The notice of opposition lodged by Sweden on 23 December 2020 was not followed by a reasoned statement of opposition, therefore the opposition thereof is deemed have been withdrawn. |
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(3)

The notice of opposition lodged by Sweden on 23 December 2020 was not followed by a reasoned statement of opposition, therefore the opposition thereof is deemed have been withdrawn.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The amendments to the specification published in the Official Journal of the European Union regarding the name ‘Stelvio’/‘Stilfser’ (PDO) are hereby approved.

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.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 6 April 2021.

For the Commission,

On behalf of the President,

Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI

Member of the Commission

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(1)  
  OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 1.

1

(2)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 148/2007 of 15 February 2007 registering certain names in the Register of protected designation of origin and protected geographical indications [Geraardsbergse mattentaart (PGI) — Pataca de Galicia or Patata de Galicia (PGI) — Poniente de Granada (PDO) — Gata-Hurdes (PDO) — Patatas de Prades or Patates de Prades (PGI) — Mantequilla de Soria (PDO) — Huile d’olive de Nîmes (PDO) — Huile d’olive de Corse or Huile d’olive de Corse-Oliu di Corsica (PDO) — Clémentine de Corse (PGI) — Agneau de Sisteron (PGI) — Connemara Hill Lamb or Uain Sléibhe Chonamara (PGI) — Sardegna (PDO) — Carota dell’Altopiano del Fucino (PGI) — Stelvio or Stilfser (PDO) — Limone Femminello del Gargano (PGI) — Azeitonas de Conserva de Elvas e Campo Maior (PDO) — Chouriça de Carne de Barroso-Montalegre (PGI) — Chouriço de Abóbora de Barroso-Montalegre (PGI) — Sangueira de Barroso-Montalegre (PGI) — Batata de Trás-os-Montes (PGI) — Salpicão de Barroso-Montalegre (PGI) — Alheira de Barroso-Montalegre (PGI) — Cordeiro de Barroso, Anho de Barroso or Borrego de leite de Barroso (PGI) — Azeite do Alentejo Interior (PDO) — Paio de Beja (PGI) — Linguíça do Baixo Alentejo or Chouriço de carne do Baixo Alentejo (PGI) — Ekstra deviško oljčno olje Slovenske Istre (PDO)], OJ L 46, 16.2.2007, p. 14.

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(3)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1132/2013 of 7 November 2013 approving non-minor amendments to the specification for a name entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications [Stelvio/Stilfser (PDO)] (OJ L 302, 13.11.2013, p. 20).

3

(4)  
  OJ C 317, 25.9.2020, p. 25.

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L 125/13

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/589

of 9 April 2021

amending for the 320th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida organisations (1), and in particular Article 7(1)(a) and Article 7a(5) thereof,

Whereas:

| (1) | Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation. |
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(1)

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation.

| (2) | On 6 April 2021, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to amend one entry in the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply. |
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(2)

On 6 April 2021, the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council decided to amend one entry in the list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic resources should apply.

| (3) | Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly, |
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(3)

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 April 2021.

For the Commission,

On behalf of the President,

Director-General

Directorate-General for Financial Stability,

Financial Services and Capital Markets Union

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(1)  
  OJ L 139, 29.5.2002, p. 9.

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ANNEX

The identifying data for the following entry under the heading ‘Natural persons’ in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended as follows:

‘Abu Bakar Ba’asyir (alias (a) Abu Bakar Baasyir, (b) Abu Bakar Bashir, (c) Abdus Samad, (d) Abdus Somad). Date of birth: 17.8.1938. Place of birth: Jombang, East Java, Indonesia. Address: Indonesia (in prison) Nationality: Indonesian.’

is replaced by the following:

‘Abu Bakar Ba’asyir (good quality alias: (a) Abu Bakar Baasyir; (b) Abu Bakar Bashir; (c) Abdus Samad; (d) Abdus Somad). Date of birth: 17.8.1938. Place of birth: Jombang, East Java, Indonesia. Nationality: Indonesian. Address: Indonesia. Date of designation referred to in Article 7d(2)(i): 21.4.2006.’

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| 13.4.2021 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 125/15 |
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13.4.2021

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 125/15

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2021/590

of 12 April 2021

amending Annexes II and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for aclonifen, boscalid, cow milk, etofenprox, ferric pyrophosphate, L-cysteine, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr in or on certain products

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (1), and in particular Article 5(1) and Article 14(1)(a) thereof,

Whereas:

| (1) | For aclonifen, boscalid, etofenprox, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr, maximum residue levels (‘MRLs’) were set in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. For ferric pyrophosphate, L-cysteine and cow milk, no specific MRLs were set nor were those substances included in Annex IV to that Regulation, so the default value of 0,01 mg/kg laid down in Article 18(1)(b) thereof applies. |
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(1)

For aclonifen, boscalid, etofenprox, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr, maximum residue levels (‘MRLs’) were set in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. For ferric pyrophosphate, L-cysteine and cow milk, no specific MRLs were set nor were those substances included in Annex IV to that Regulation, so the default value of 0,01 mg/kg laid down in Article 18(1)(b) thereof applies.

| (2) | In the context of a procedure for the authorisation of the use of a plant protection product containing the active substance aclonifen on sweet peppers/bell peppers, herbal infusions and spices, an application was submitted in accordance with Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 for modification of the existing MRLs. |
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(2)

In the context of a procedure for the authorisation of the use of a plant protection product containing the active substance aclonifen on sweet peppers/bell peppers, herbal infusions and spices, an application was submitted in accordance with Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 for modification of the existing MRLs.

| (3) | As regards boscalid, such an application was submitted for pomegranates, honey and other apiculture products following the use on rapeseed. As regards etofenprox, such an application was submitted for plums. As regards lambda-cyhalothrin, such an application was submitted for seed and fruit spices. As regards maleic hydrazide, such an application was submitted for chicory roots. As regards mefentrifluconazole, such an application was submitted for pome fruits, apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, grapes, potatoes, sweet corn, maize, sunflower seeds, rapeseeds/canola seeds and sugar beet roots. As regards sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate, such an application was submitted for grapes, strawberries, raspberries, currants, maize/corn, rice, wheat and hops. As regards triclopyr, such an application was submitted for kiwi fruits. |
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(3)

As regards boscalid, such an application was submitted for pomegranates, honey and other apiculture products following the use on rapeseed. As regards etofenprox, such an application was submitted for plums. As regards lambda-cyhalothrin, such an application was submitted for seed and fruit spices. As regards maleic hydrazide, such an application was submitted for chicory roots. As regards mefentrifluconazole, such an application was submitted for pome fruits, apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, grapes, potatoes, sweet corn, maize, sunflower seeds, rapeseeds/canola seeds and sugar beet roots. As regards sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate, such an application was submitted for grapes, strawberries, raspberries, currants, maize/corn, rice, wheat and hops. As regards triclopyr, such an application was submitted for kiwi fruits.

| (4) | In accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, those applications were evaluated by the Member States concerned and the evaluation reports were forwarded to the Commission. |
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(4)

In accordance with Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, those applications were evaluated by the Member States concerned and the evaluation reports were forwarded to the Commission.

| (5) | The European Food Safety Authority (‘the Authority’) assessed the applications and the evaluation reports, examining in particular the risks to the consumer and, where relevant, to animals and gave reasoned opinions on the proposed MRLs (2). It forwarded those opinions to the applicants, the Commission and the Member States and made them available to the public. |
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(5)

The European Food Safety Authority (‘the Authority’) assessed the applications and the evaluation reports, examining in particular the risks to the consumer and, where relevant, to animals and gave reasoned opinions on the proposed MRLs (2). It forwarded those opinions to the applicants, the Commission and the Member States and made them available to the public.

| (6) | As regards all applications, the Authority concluded that all requirements with respect to data were met and that the modifications to the MRLs requested by the applicants were acceptable with regard to consumer safety on the basis of a consumer exposure assessment for 27 specific European consumer groups. It took into account the most recent information on the toxicological properties of the substances. Neither the lifetime exposure to these substances via consumption of all food products that may contain them, nor the short-term exposure due to high consumption of the relevant products showed that there is a risk that the acceptable daily intake or the acute reference dose is exceeded. |
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(6)

As regards all applications, the Authority concluded that all requirements with respect to data were met and that the modifications to the MRLs requested by the applicants were acceptable with regard to consumer safety on the basis of a consumer exposure assessment for 27 specific European consumer groups. It took into account the most recent information on the toxicological properties of the substances. Neither the lifetime exposure to these substances via consumption of all food products that may contain them, nor the short-term exposure due to high consumption of the relevant products showed that there is a risk that the acceptable daily intake or the acute reference dose is exceeded.

| (7) | As regards aclonifen, the applicant also submitted information previously unavailable during the review conducted in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. That information concerns residue trials and analytical methods. |
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(7)

As regards aclonifen, the applicant also submitted information previously unavailable during the review conducted in accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. That information concerns residue trials and analytical methods.

| (8) | As regards sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate, the applicant also submitted such an information on analytical methods. |
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(8)

As regards sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate, the applicant also submitted such an information on analytical methods.

| (9) | As regards boscalid, the applicant made the reference standard for 2-chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl)nicotinamide commercially available. |
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(9)

As regards boscalid, the applicant made the reference standard for 2-chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl)nicotinamide commercially available.

| (10) | As regards maleic hydrazide, the Authority assessed an application with a view of setting an MRL for carrots in the framework of the conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance (3). In accordance with the existing Union guidelines on extrapolation of MRLs, it is appropriate to apply the MRL for carrots also to chicory roots. |
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(10)

As regards maleic hydrazide, the Authority assessed an application with a view of setting an MRL for carrots in the framework of the conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance (3). In accordance with the existing Union guidelines on extrapolation of MRLs, it is appropriate to apply the MRL for carrots also to chicory roots.

| (11) | As regards mefentrifluconazole, the Authority recommended increasing the MRLs for swine liver, bovine kidney and milk from cattle, sheep and goat, following the use of the substance on feed items. |
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(11)

As regards mefentrifluconazole, the Authority recommended increasing the MRLs for swine liver, bovine kidney and milk from cattle, sheep and goat, following the use of the substance on feed items.

| (12) | In the context of the approval of the active substance ferric pyrophosphate, an MRL application was included in the summary dossier in accordance with Article 8(1)(g) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4). That application was evaluated by the Member State concerned in accordance with Article 11(2) of that Regulation. The Authority assessed the application and delivered a conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance, where it concluded that the inclusion of ferric pyrophosphate in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 is appropriate (5). |
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(12)

In the context of the approval of the active substance ferric pyrophosphate, an MRL application was included in the summary dossier in accordance with Article 8(1)(g) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4). That application was evaluated by the Member State concerned in accordance with Article 11(2) of that Regulation. The Authority assessed the application and delivered a conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance, where it concluded that the inclusion of ferric pyrophosphate in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 is appropriate (5).

| (13) | L-cysteine and cow milk have been approved as basic substances by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/642 (6) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1004 (7), respectively. The conditions of use of those substances are not expected to lead to the presence of residues in food or feed commodities that may pose a risk to the consumer. It is therefore appropriate to include those substances in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. |
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(13)

L-cysteine and cow milk have been approved as basic substances by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/642 (6) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1004 (7), respectively. The conditions of use of those substances are not expected to lead to the presence of residues in food or feed commodities that may pose a risk to the consumer. It is therefore appropriate to include those substances in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

| (14) | Based on the reasoned opinions and the conclusions of the Authority and taking into account the factors relevant to the matter under consideration, the respective modifications to the MRLs fulfil the requirements of Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. |
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(14)

Based on the reasoned opinions and the conclusions of the Authority and taking into account the factors relevant to the matter under consideration, the respective modifications to the MRLs fulfil the requirements of Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

| (15) | Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 should therefore be amended accordingly. |
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(15)

Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 should therefore be amended accordingly.

| (16) | The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, |
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(16)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annexes II and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 are 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.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 April 2021.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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(1)  
  OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1.

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(2)  EFSA scientific reports available online: http://www.efsa.europa.eu:

2

Reasoned opinion on the evaluation of confirmatory data following the Article 12 MRL review for aclonifen. EFSA Journal 2020;18(5):6102.

EFSA Journal

Reasoned opinion on the modification of the existing maximum residue level for boscalid in honey. EFSA Journal 2019;17(11):5897.

EFSA Journal

Reasoned opinion on the modification of the existing maximum residue level for boscalid in pomegranates. EFSA Journal 2020;18(9):6236.

EFSA Journal

Reasoned opinion on the modification of the existing maximum residue level for etofenprox in plums. EFSA Journal 2020;18(7):6192.

EFSA Journal

Reasoned opinion on the modification of the existing maximum residue levels for lambda-cyhalothrin in seed and fruit spices. EFSA Journal 2020;18(6):6110.

EFSA Journal

Reasoned opinion on the modification of the existing maximum residue levels for mefentrifluconazole in various crops. EFSA Journal 2020;18(7):6193.

EFSA Journal

Reasoned opinion on the evaluation of confirmatory data following the Article 12 MRL review for sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate and sodium p-nitrophenolate (sodium nitrocompounds). EFSA Journal 2020;18(3):6060.

EFSA Journal

Reasoned opinion on the modification of the existing maximum residue level for triclopyr in kiwi. EFSA Journal 2020;18(7):6191.

EFSA Journal

(3)  Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance maleic hydrazide. EFSA Journal 2016;14(6):4492.

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EFSA Journal

(4)  Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC (OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1).

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(5)  Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance ferric pyrophosphate. EFSA Journal 2020;18(1):5986.

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EFSA Journal

(6)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/642 of 12 May 2020 approving the basic substance L-cysteine in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (OJ L 150, 13.5.2020, p. 134).

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(7)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1004 of 9 July 2020 approving the basic substance cow milk in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (OJ L 221, 10.7.2020, p. 133).

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ANNEX

Annexes II and IV to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 are amended as follows:

| (1) | in Annex II, the columns for aclonifen, boscalid, etofenprox, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr are replaced by the following:
  “Pesticide residues and maximum residue levels (mg/kg)















  Code number | Groups and examples of individual products to which the MRLs apply (1) | Aclonifen | Boscalid (F) (R) | Etofenprox (F) | Lambda-cyhalothrin (includes gamma-cyhalothrin) (sum of R,S and S,R isomers) (F) | Maleic hydrazide | Mefentrifluconazole | Sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolateand sodium p-nitrophenolate (Sum of sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate and sodium p-nitrophenolate, expressed as sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate) | Triclopyr |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) |
| 0100000 | FRUITS, FRESH or FROZEN; TREE NUTS | 0,01 (*1) | | | | 0,2 (*1) | | 0,03 (*1) | |
| 0110000 | Citrus fruits | | 2 (+) | 1,5 | 0,2 (+) | | 0,01 (*1) | | |
| 0110010 | Grapefruits | | | (+) | | | | | 0,1 (+) |
| 0110020 | Oranges | | | (+) | | | | | 0,1 (+) |
| 0110030 | Lemons | | | (+) | | | | | 0,1 (+) |
| 0110040 | Limes | | | (+) | | | | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0110050 | Mandarins | | | (+) | | | | | 0,1 (+) |
| 0110990 | Others (2) | | | | | | | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0120000 | Tree nuts | | (+) | 0,01 (*1) | 0,01 (*1) (+) | | 0,01 (*1) | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0120010 | Almonds | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120020 | Brazil nuts | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120030 | Cashew nuts | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120040 | Chestnuts | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120050 | Coconuts | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120060 | Hazelnuts/cobnuts | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120070 | Macadamias | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120080 | Pecans | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120090 | Pine nut kernels | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120100 | Pistachios | | 1 | | | | | | |
| 0120110 | Walnuts | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0120990 | Others (2) | | 0,05 (*1) | | | | | | |
| 0130000 | Pome fruits | | | | (+) | | 0,4 | | |
| 0130010 | Apples | | 2 (+) | 0,7 | 0,08 | | | | 0,05 (+) |
| 0130020 | Pears | | 1.5 (+) | 0,7 | 0,08 | | | | 0,05 (+) |
| 0130030 | Quinces | | 1.5 (+) | 0,01 (*1) | 0,2 | | | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0130040 | Medlars | | 0,01 (*1) | 0,01 (*1) | 0,2 | | | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0130050 | Loquats/Japanese medlars | | 0,01 (*1) | 0,01 (*1) | 0,2 | | | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0130990 | Others (2) | | 0,01 (*1) | 0,01 (*1) | 0,01 (*1) | | | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0140000 | Stone fruits | | | | | | | | |
| 0140010 | Apricots | | 5 (+) | 0,6 (+) | 0,15 (+) | | 0,7 | | 0,05 (+) |
| 0140020 | Cherries (sweet) | | 4 (+) | 0,8 (+) | 0,3 (+) | | 2 | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0140030 | Peaches | | 5 (+) | 0,6 | 0,15 (+) | | 0,7 | | 0,05 (+) |
| 0140040 | Plums | | 3 (+) | 0,2 | 0,2 (+) | | 0,5 | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0140990 | Others (2) | | 0,01 (*1) | 0,01 (*1) | 0,01 (*1) (+) | | 0,01 (*1) | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0150000 | Berries and small fruits | | | | (+) | | | | 0,01 (*1) |
| 0151000 | (a) | grapes |

(1)

in Annex II, the columns for aclonifen, boscalid, etofenprox, lambda-cyhalothrin, maleic hydrazide, mefentrifluconazole, sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate, sodium p-nitrophenolate and triclopyr are replaced by the following:

“Pesticide residues and maximum residue levels (mg/kg)

Code number

Groups and examples of individual products to which the MRLs apply (1)

Aclonifen

Boscalid (F) (R)

Etofenprox (F)

Lambda-cyhalothrin (includes gamma-cyhalothrin) (sum of R,S and S,R isomers) (F)

Maleic hydrazide

Mefentrifluconazole

Sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolateand sodium p-nitrophenolate (Sum of sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate, sodium o-nitrophenolate and sodium p-nitrophenolate, expressed as sodium 5-nitroguaiacolate)

Triclopyr

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

0100000

FRUITS, FRESH or FROZEN; TREE NUTS

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0110000

Citrus fruits

2 (+)

1,5

0,2 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0110010

Grapefruits

(+)

0,1 (+)

0110020

Oranges

(+)

0,1 (+)

0110030

Lemons

(+)

0,1 (+)

0110040

Limes

(+)

0,01 (*1)

0110050

Mandarins

(+)

0,1 (+)

0110990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0120000

Tree nuts

(+)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1) (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0120010

Almonds

0,05 (*1)

0120020

Brazil nuts

0,05 (*1)

0120030

Cashew nuts

0,05 (*1)

0120040

Chestnuts

0,05 (*1)

0120050

Coconuts

0,05 (*1)

0120060

Hazelnuts/cobnuts

0,05 (*1)

0120070

Macadamias

0,05 (*1)

0120080

Pecans

0,05 (*1)

0120090

Pine nut kernels

0,05 (*1)

0120100

Pistachios

1

0120110

Walnuts

0,05 (*1)

0120990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0130000

Pome fruits

(+)

0,4

0130010

Apples

2 (+)

0,7

0,08

0,05 (+)

0130020

Pears

1.5 (+)

0,7

0,08

0,05 (+)

0130030

Quinces

1.5 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0130040

Medlars

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0130050

Loquats/Japanese medlars

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0130990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0140000

Stone fruits

0140010

Apricots

5 (+)

0,6 (+)

0,15 (+)

0,7

0,05 (+)

0140020

Cherries (sweet)

4 (+)

0,8 (+)

0,3 (+)

2

0,01 (*1)

0140030

Peaches

5 (+)

0,6

0,15 (+)

0,7

0,05 (+)

0140040

Plums

3 (+)

0,2

0,2 (+)

0,5

0,01 (*1)

0140990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1) (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0150000

Berries and small fruits

(+)

0,01 (*1)

0151000

(a)

grapes

5 (+)

4 (+)

0,9

0151010

Table grapes

0,08

0151020

Wine grapes

0,2

0152000

| (b) | strawberries |
| --- | --- |

(b)

strawberries

6 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0153000

| (c) | cane fruits |
| --- | --- |

(c)

cane fruits

10 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0153010

Blackberries

0153020

Dewberries

0153030

Raspberries (red and yellow)

0153990

Others (2)

0154000

| (d) | other small fruits and berries |
| --- | --- |

(d)

other small fruits and berries

15 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0154010

Blueberries

0,2

0154020

Cranberries

0,2

0154030

Currants (black, red and white)

0,2

0154040

Gooseberries (green, red and yellow)

0,2

0154050

Rose hips

0,2

0154060

Mulberries (black and white)

0,2

0154070

Azaroles/Mediterranean medlars

0,2

0154080

Elderberries

0,2

0154990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0160000

Miscellaneous fruitswith

0,01 (*1)

0161000

| (a) | edible peel |
| --- | --- |

(a)

edible peel

0,01 (*1)

(+)

0,01 (*1)

0161010

Dates

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0161020

Figs

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0161030

Table olives

0,01 (*1)

1

0161040

Kumquats

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0161050

Carambolas

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0161060

Kaki/Japanese persimmons

0,8 (+)

0,09

0161070

Jambuls/jambolans

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0161990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0162000

| (b) | inedible peel, small |
| --- | --- |

(b)

inedible peel, small

(+)

0162010

Kiwi fruits (green, red, yellow)

5 (+)

1 (+)

0,05

0,15

0162020

Litchis/lychees

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0162030

Passionfruits/maracujas

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0162040

Prickly pears/cactus fruits

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0162050

Star apples/cainitos

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0162060

American persimmons/Virginia kaki

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0162990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163000

| (c) | inedible peel, large |
| --- | --- |

(c)

inedible peel, large

0,01 (*1)

(+)

0,01 (*1)

0163010

Avocados

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163020

Bananas

0,6 (+)

0,15

0163030

Mangoes

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0163040

Papayas

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163050

Granate apples/pomegranates

2

0,01 (*1)

0163060

Cherimoyas

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163070

Guavas

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163080

Pineapples

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163090

Breadfruits

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163100

Durians

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163110

Soursops/guanabanas

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0163990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0200000

VEGETABLES, FRESH or FROZEN

(+)

0210000

Root and tuber vegetables

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0211000

| (a) | potatoes |
| --- | --- |

(a)

potatoes

0,02 (*1)

2 (+)

0,01 (*1)

60

0212000

| (b) | tropical root and tuber vegetables |
| --- | --- |

(b)

tropical root and tuber vegetables

0,01 (*1)

2

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0212010

Cassava roots/manioc

(+)

0212020

Sweet potatoes

(+)

0212030

Yams

(+)

0212040

Arrowroots

(+)

0212990

Others (2)

0213000

| (c) | other root and tuber vegetables except sugar beets |
| --- | --- |

(c)

other root and tuber vegetables except sugar beets

(+)

0213010

Beetroots

0,01 (*1)

4

0,04

0,2 (*1)

0213020

Carrots

0,08

2

0,04

30

0213030

Celeriacs/turnip rooted celeries

0,3

2

0,07

0,2 (*1)

0213040

Horseradishes

0,07

2

0,04

0,2 (*1)

0213050

Jerusalem artichokes

0,1

2

0,04

0,2 (*1)

0213060

Parsnips

0,1

2

0,04

30

0213070

Parsley roots/Hamburg roots parsley

0,01 (*1)

2

0,04

0,2 (*1)

0213080

Radishes

0,01 (*1)

2

0,15

0,2 (*1)

0213090

Salsifies

0,01 (*1)

2

0,04

0,2 (*1)

0213100

Swedes/rutabagas

0,01 (*1)

2

0,04

0,2 (*1)

0213110

Turnips

0,01 (*1)

2

0,04

0,2 (*1)

0213990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

2

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0220000

Bulb vegetables

(+)

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0220010

Garlic

0,02 (*1)

5

40

0220020

Onions

0,02 (*1)

5

15

0220030

Shallots

0,02 (*1)

5

30

0220040

Spring onions/green onions and Welsh onions

0,01 (*1)

6

0,2 (*1)

0220990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,5

0,2 (*1)

0230000

Fruiting vegetables

(+)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0231000

| (a) | olanaceae and Malvaceae |
| --- | --- |

(a)

olanaceae and Malvaceae

3

0231010

Tomatoes

0,01 (*1)

0,7 (+)

0,07

0231020

Sweet peppers/bell peppers

0,02
   (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,1

0231030

Aubergines/eggplants

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,3

0231040

Okra/lady's fingers

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,3

0231990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0232000

| (b) | cucurbits with edible peel |
| --- | --- |

(b)

cucurbits with edible peel

0,01 (*1)

4

0,01 (*1)

0232010

Cucumbers

0,05

0232020

Gherkins

0,15

0232030

Courgettes

0,15

0232990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0233000

| (c) | cucurbits with inedible peel |
| --- | --- |

(c)

cucurbits with inedible peel

0,01 (*1)

3

0,01 (*1)

0,06

0233010

Melons

0233020

Pumpkins

0233030

Watermelons

0233990

Others (2)

0234000

| (d) | sweet corn |
| --- | --- |

(d)

sweet corn

0,02 (*1)

0,05

0,01 (*1)

0,05

0239000

| (e) | other fruiting vegetables |
| --- | --- |

(e)

other fruiting vegetables

0,01 (*1)

0,9

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0240000

Brassica vegetables(excluding brassica roots and brassica baby leaf crops)

0,01 (*1)

(+)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0241000

| (a) | flowering brassica |
| --- | --- |

(a)

flowering brassica

5

0,4

0,1

0241010

Broccoli

(+)

0241020

Cauliflowers

(+)

0241990

Others (2)

0242000

| (b) | head brassica |
| --- | --- |

(b)

head brassica

5

0242010

Brussels sprouts

0,01 (*1)

0,04

0242020

Head cabbages

0,7 (+)

0,15

0242990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0243000

| (c) | leafy brassica |
| --- | --- |

(c)

leafy brassica

9

0,01 (*1)

0243010

Chinese cabbages/pe-tsai

0,3

0243020

Kales

0,01 (*1)

0243990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0244000

| (d) | kohlrabies |
| --- | --- |

(d)

kohlrabies

5

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0250000

Leaf vegetables, herbs and edible flowers

(+)

0,2 (*1)

0251000

| (a) | lettuces and salad plants |
| --- | --- |

(a)

lettuces and salad plants

0,01 (*1)

50

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0251010

Lamb's lettuces/corn salads

3 (+)

1,5

0251020

Lettuces

3 (+)

0,15

0251030

Escaroles/broad-leaved endives

3 (+)

0,07

0251040

Cresses and other sprouts and shoots

3 (+)

0,7

0251050

Land cresses

0,01 (*1)

0,7

0251060

Roman rocket/rucola

3 (+)

0,7

0251070

Red mustards

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0251080

Baby leaf crops (including brassica species)

0,01 (*1)

0,7

0251990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0252000

| (b) | spinaches and similar leaves |
| --- | --- |

(b)

spinaches and similar leaves

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0252010

Spinaches

50

3 (+)

0,6

0252020

Purslanes

0,9

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0252030

Chards/beet leaves

30

3 (+)

0,2

0252990

Others (2)

0,9

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0253000

| (c) | grape leaves and similar species |
| --- | --- |

(c)

grape leaves and similar species

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0254000

| (d) | watercresses |
| --- | --- |

(d)

watercresses

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0255000

| (e) | witloofs/Belgian endives |
| --- | --- |

(e)

witloofs/Belgian endives

0,01 (*1)

7

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0256000

| (f) | herbs and edible flowers |
| --- | --- |

(f)

herbs and edible flowers

0,8

50

3

0,7

0,02 (*1)

0,06 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0256010

Chervil

(+)

0256020

Chives

(+)

0256030

Celery leaves

(+)

0256040

Parsley

(+)

0256050

Sage

(+)

0256060

Rosemary

(+)

0256070

Thyme

(+)

0256080

Basil and edible flowers

(+)

0256090

Laurel/bay leaves

(+)

0256100

Tarragon

(+)

0256990

Others (2)

0260000

Legume vegetables

(+)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0260010

Beans (with pods)

0,08

5

0,4 (+)

0,4

0260020

Beans (without pods)

0,02 (*1)

3

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0260030

Peas (with pods)

0,08

5

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0260040

Peas (without pods)

0,01 (*1)

3

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0260050

Lentils

0,02

3

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0260990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,06

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0270000

Stem vegetables

(+)

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0270010

Asparagus

0,01 (*1)

0,9

0,02

0270020

Cardoons

0,01 (*1)

0,9

0,01 (*1)

0270030

Celeries

0,01 (*1)

9

0,2

0270040

Florence fennels

0,01 (*1)

9

0,3

0270050

Globe artichokes

0,02 (*1)

5

0,15

0270060

Leeks

0,01 (*1)

9

0,07

0270070

Rhubarbs

0,01 (*1)

0,9

0,01 (*1)

0270080

Bamboo shoots

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0270090

Palm hearts

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0270990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,5

0,01 (*1)

0280000

Fungi, mosses and lichens

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0280010

Cultivated fungi

0,01 (*1)

0280020

Wild fungi

0,5

0280990

Mosses and lichens

0,01 (*1)

0290000

Algae and prokaryotes organisms

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0300000

PULSES

3 (+)

0,05 (+)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0300010

Beans

0,08

0,05 (+)

0300020

Lentils

0,08

0,01 (*1)

0300030

Peas

0,08

0,01 (*1)

0300040

Lupins/lupini beans

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0300990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0400000

OILSEEDS AND OIL FRUITS

(+)

0,5 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0401000

Oilseeds

(+)

0401010

Linseeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401020

Peanuts/groundnuts

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401030

Poppy seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401040

Sesame seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401050

Sunflower seeds

0,02 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,05

0401060

Rapeseeds/canola seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,05 (+)

0,2

0,06

0401070

Soyabeans

0,01 (*1)

3

0,01 (*1)

0,05

0,01 (*1)

0401080

Mustard seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401090

Cotton seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401100

Pumpkin seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401110

Safflower seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401120

Borage seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401130

Gold of pleasure seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401140

Hemp seeds

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401150

Castor beans

0,01 (*1)

1

0,01 (*1)

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0401990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0,06

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0402000

Oil fruits

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0402010

Olives for oil production

0,5

0402020

Oil palms kernels

0,01 (*1)

0402030

Oil palms fruits

0,01 (*1)

0402040

Kapok

0,01 (*1)

0402990

Others (2)

0,01 (*1)

0500000

CEREALS

0,01 (*1)

(+)

0,01 (*1)

(+)

0,2 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0500010

Barley

4

0,5

0,6

0,01 (*1)

0500020

Buckwheat and other pseudocereals

0,15

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0500030

Maize/corn

0,15

0,02

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0500040

Common millet/proso millet

0,15

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0500050

Oat

4

0,3

0,6

0,01 (*1)

0500060

Rice

0,15

0,2

0,01 (*1)

0,3 (+)

0500070

Rye

0,8

0,05

0,05

0,01 (*1)

0500080

Sorghum

0,15

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0500090

Wheat

0,8

0,05

0,05

0,01 (*1)

0500990

Others (2)

0,15

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0600000

TEAS, COFFEE, HERBAL INFUSIONS, COCOA AND CAROBS

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1) (+)

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0610000

Teas

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0620000

Coffee beans

0,05 (*1)

0,05 (*1) (+)

0630000

Herbal infusions from

(+)

0631000

| (a) | flowers |
| --- | --- |

(a)

flowers

0,08

0,9

0631010

Chamomile

0631020

Hibiscus/roselle

0631030

Rose

0631040

Jasmine

0631050

Lime/linden

0631990

Others (2)

0632000

| (b) | leaves and herbs |
| --- | --- |

(b)

leaves and herbs

0,08

0,9

0632010

Strawberry

0632020

Rooibos

0632030

Mate/maté

0632990

Others (2)

0633000

| (c) | roots |
| --- | --- |

(c)

roots

0,05 (*1)

3

0633010

Valerian

0633020

Ginseng

0633990

Others (2)

0639000

| (d) | any other parts of the plant |
| --- | --- |

(d)

any other parts of the plant

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0640000

Cocoa beans

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0650000

Carobs/Saint John's breads

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0700000

HOPS

0,05 (*1)

80 (+)

0,05 (*1)

10 (+)

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,3
   (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0800000

SPICES

(+)

(+)

0810000

Seed spices

0,01
   (*1)

0,9

0,05 (*1)

0,3

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0810010

Anise/aniseed

0810020

Black caraway/black cumin

0810030

Celery

0810040

Coriander

0810050

Cumin

0810060

Dill

0810070

Fennel

0810080

Fenugreek

0810090

Nutmeg

0810990

Others (2)

0820000

Fruit spices

0,01
   (*1)

0,9

0,05 (*1)

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0820010

Allspice/pimento

0,3

0820020

Sichuan pepper

0,3

0820030

Caraway

0,3

0820040

Cardamom

2

0820050

Juniper berry

0,3

0820060

Peppercorn (black, green and white)

0,3

0820070

Vanilla

0,3

0820080

Tamarind

0,3

0820990

Others (2)

0,3

0830000

Bark spices

0,05 (*1)

0,9

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0830010

Cinnamon

0830990

Others (2)

0840000

Root and rhizome spices

0840010

Liquorice

0,05 (*1)

0,4

0,05 (*1)

0,05

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0840020

Ginger (10)

0840030

Turmeric/curcuma

0,05 (*1)

0,4

0,05 (*1)

0,05

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0840040

Horseradish (11)

0840990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,4

0,05 (*1)

0,05

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0850000

Bud spices

0,05 (*1)

0,9

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0850010

Cloves

0850020

Capers

0850990

Others (2)

0860000

Flower pistil spices

0,05 (*1)

0,9

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0860010

Saffron

0860990

Others (2)

0870000

Aril spices

0,05 (*1)

0,9

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,5 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0870010

Mace

0870990

Others (2)

0900000

SUGAR PLANTS

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

(+)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0900010

Sugar beet roots

0,4 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0,06

0900020

Sugar canes

7 (+)

0,05

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0900030

Chicory roots

0,4 (+)

0,01 (*1)

30

0,01 (*1)

0900990

Others (2)

0,5

0,01 (*1)

0,2 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1000000

PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN -TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS

(+)

1010000

Commodities from

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

1011000

| (a) | swine |
| --- | --- |

(a)

swine

0,01 (*1)

1011010

Muscle

0,01 (*1)

0,05 (+)

0,15

0,05

0,01 (*1)

1011020

Fat

0,07

1,5 (+)

3

0,1

0,01 (*1)

1011030

Liver

0,05 (*1)

0,05 (+)

0,05

0,1

0,015

1011040

Kidney

0,05 (*1)

0,05 (+)

0,2

1,5

0,01 (*1)

1011050

Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

0,07

1,5

3

0,02 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1011990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,015

1012000

| (b) | bovine |
| --- | --- |

(b)

bovine

1012010

Muscle

0,01 (*1)

0,06 (+)

0,02

0,1

0,04

0,06

1012020

Fat

0,3

2 (+)

3

0,1

0,2

0,06

1012030

Liver

0,2 (+)

0,06 (+)

0,05

0,1

0,4

0,06

1012040

Kidney

0,2

0,07 (+)

0,2

2

0,15

0,08

1012050

Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

0,3

2

3

0,02 (*1)

0,1

0,08

1012990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,4

0,08

1013000

| (c) | sheep |
| --- | --- |

(c)

sheep

1013010

Muscle

0,01 (*1)

0,05 (+)

0,02

0,1

0,06

0,06

1013020

Fat

0,3

1,5 (+)

3

0,1

0,4

0,06

1013030

Liver

0,2 (+)

0,05 (+)

0,05

0,1

0,7

0,06

1013040

Kidney

0,2

0,05 (+)

0,2

2

0,3

0,08

1013050

Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

0,3

1,5

3

0,02 (*1)

0,3

0,08

1013990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,7

0,08

1014000

| d) | goat |
| --- | --- |

d)

goat

1014010

Muscle

0,2

0,05 (+)

0,15

0,1

0,06

0,06

1014020

Fat

0,3

1,5 (+)

3

0,1

0,4

0,06

1014030

Liver

0,2 (+)

0,05 (+)

0,05

0,1

0,7

0,06

1014040

Kidney

0,2

0,05 (+)

0,2

2

0,3

0,08

1014050

Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

0,3

1,5

3

0,02 (*1)

0,3

0,08

1014990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,7

0,08

1015000

| (e) | equine |
| --- | --- |

(e)

equine

1015010

Muscle

0,01 (*1)

0,06 (+)

0,02

0,1

0,04

0,06

1015020

Fat

0,3

2 (+)

3

0,1

0,2

0,06

1015030

Liver

0,2

0,06 (+)

0,05

0,1

0,4

0,06

1015040

Kidney

0,2

0,07 (+)

0,2

2

0,1

0,08

1015050

Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

0,3

2

3

0,02 (*1)

0,1

0,08

1015990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,4

0,08

1016000

| (f) | poultry |
| --- | --- |

(f)

poultry

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1016010

Muscle

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,05

0,015

1016020

Fat

0,08

0,04 (+)

0,1

0,03

1016030

Liver

0,15 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,02

0,03

1016040

Kidney

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,03

1016050

Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

0,15

0,04

0,02 (*1)

0,03

1016990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,03

1017000

| (g) | other farmed terrestrial animals |
| --- | --- |

(g)

other farmed terrestrial animals

0,01 (*1)

1017010

Muscle

0,01 (*1)

0,05 (+)

0,02

0,1

0,06

1017020

Fat

0,3

1,5 (+)

3

0,1

0,06

1017030

Liver

0,2

0,05 (+)

0,05

0,1

0,06

1017040

Kidney

0,2

0,05 (+)

0,2

2

0,08

1017050

Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

0,3

1,5

3

0,02 (*1)

0,08

1017990

Others (2)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,02 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1020000

Milk

0,01 (*1)

0,02

(+)

0,02

0,07

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1020010

Cattle

0,07

0,03

1020020

Sheep

0,04

0,04

1020030

Goat

0,04

0,04

1020040

Horse

0,07

0,02

1020990

Others (2)

0,04

0,01 (*1)

1030000

Birds eggs

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,015 (+)

0,01 (*1)

0,1

0,015

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1030010

Chicken

1030020

Duck

1030030

Geese

1030040

Quail

1030990

Others (2)

1040000

Honey and other apiculture products (7)

0,05 (*1)

0,15

0,05 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,15 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

1050000

Amphibians and Reptiles

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1060000

Terrestrial invertebrate animals

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1070000

Wild terrestrial vertebrate animals

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,05 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

0,03 (*1)

0,01 (*1)

1100000

PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN - FISH, FISHPRODUCTS AND ANY OTHER MARINE AND FRESHWATER FOOD PRODUCTS (8)

1200000

PRODUCTS OR PART OF PRODUCTS EXCLUSIVELY USED FOR ANIMAL FEED PRODUCTION (8)

1300000

PROCESSED FOOD PRODUCTS (9)

(F) = Fat soluble

Boscalid (F) (R)

(R) = The residue definition differs for the following combinations pesticide-code number:

code 1000000 except 1040000, 1011010, 1011020, 1011050, 1012010, 1012020, 1012050, 1013010, 1013020, 1013050, 1014010, 1014020, 1014050, 1015010, 1015020, 1015050, 1016010, 1016020, 1017010, 1017020, 1017050, 1020000, 1030000: Sum of boscalid and its hydroxy metabolite 2-chloro-N-(4′-chloro-5-hydroxybiphenyl-2-yl)nicotinamide (free and conjugated) expressed as boscalid

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0110000 Citrus fruits


  0120000 Tree nuts


  0130010 Apples


  0130020 Pears


  0130030 Quinces |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0110000 Citrus fruits

0120000 Tree nuts

0130010 Apples

0130020 Pears

0130030 Quinces

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (after repeated applications in permanent crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140010 Apricots |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (after repeated applications in permanent crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140010 Apricots

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140020 Cherries (sweet)


  0140030 Peaches


  0140040 Plums


  0151000 (a) grapes |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140020 Cherries (sweet)

0140030 Peaches

0140040 Plums

0151000 (a) grapes

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0152000 (b) strawberries |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0152000 (b) strawberries

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0153000 (c) cane fruits


  0154000 (d) other small fruits and berries


  0162010 Kiwi fruits (green, red, yellow)


  0163020 Bananas |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0153000 (c) cane fruits

0154000 (d) other small fruits and berries

0162010 Kiwi fruits (green, red, yellow)

0163020 Bananas

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0211000 (a) potatoes


  0212010 Cassava roots/manioc


  0212020 Sweet potatoes


  0212030 Yams


  0212040 Arrowroots


  0213000 (c) other root and tuber vegetables except sugar beets


  0220000 Bulb vegetables


  0230000 Fruiting vegetables


  0240000 Brassica vegetables(excluding brassica roots and brassica baby leaf crops)


  0241000 (a) flowering brassica


  0241010 Broccoli |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0211000 (a) potatoes

0212010 Cassava roots/manioc

0212020 Sweet potatoes

0212030 Yams

0212040 Arrowroots

0213000 (c) other root and tuber vegetables except sugar beets

0220000 Bulb vegetables

0230000 Fruiting vegetables

0240000 Brassica vegetables(excluding brassica roots and brassica baby leaf crops)

0241000 (a) flowering brassica

0241010 Broccoli

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0241020 Cauliflowers |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0241020 Cauliflowers

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0241990 Others (2)


  0242000 (b) head brassica


  0243000 (c) leafy brassica


  0244000 (d) kohlrabies


  0250000 Leaf vegetables, herbs and edible flowers


  0251000 (a) lettuces and salad plants


  0252000 (b) spinaches and similar leaves


  0252010 Spinaches


  0252020 Purslanes |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0241990 Others (2)

0242000 (b) head brassica

0243000 (c) leafy brassica

0244000 (d) kohlrabies

0250000 Leaf vegetables, herbs and edible flowers

0251000 (a) lettuces and salad plants

0252000 (b) spinaches and similar leaves

0252010 Spinaches

0252020 Purslanes

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0252030 Chards/beet leaves |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0252030 Chards/beet leaves

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0252990 Others (2)


  0253000 (c) grape leaves and similar species


  0254000 (d) watercresses


  0255000 (e) witloofs/Belgian endives


  0256000 (f) herbs and edible flowers


  0260000 Legume vegetables


  0260010 Beans (with pods) |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0252990 Others (2)

0253000 (c) grape leaves and similar species

0254000 (d) watercresses

0255000 (e) witloofs/Belgian endives

0256000 (f) herbs and edible flowers

0260000 Legume vegetables

0260010 Beans (with pods)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0260020 Beans (without pods) |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0260020 Beans (without pods)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0260030 Peas (with pods) |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0260030 Peas (with pods)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0260040 Peas (without pods)


  0260050 Lentils |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0260040 Peas (without pods)

0260050 Lentils

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0260990 Others (2)


  0270000 Stem vegetables


  0270010 Asparagus


  0270020 Cardoons |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0260990 Others (2)

0270000 Stem vegetables

0270010 Asparagus

0270020 Cardoons

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0270030 Celeries


  0270040 Florence fennels |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues trials (for rotational crops and to support the authorisation) and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0270030 Celeries

0270040 Florence fennels

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0270050 Globe artichokes


  0270060 Leeks


  0270070 Rhubarbs


  0270080 Bamboo shoots


  0270090 Palm hearts


  0270990 Others (2)


  0300000 PULSES


  0401000 Oilseeds


  0401010 Linseeds


  0401020 Peanuts/groundnuts


  0401030 Poppy seeds


  0401040 Sesame seeds


  0401050 Sunflower seeds


  0401060 Rapeseeds/canola seeds


  0401070 Soyabeans


  0401080 Mustard seeds


  0401090 Cotton seeds


  0401100 Pumpkin seeds


  0401110 Safflower seeds


  0401120 Borage seeds


  0401130 Gold of pleasure seeds


  0401140 Hemp seeds


  0401150 Castor beans


  0401990 Others (2)


  0500000 CEREALS |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0270050 Globe artichokes

0270060 Leeks

0270070 Rhubarbs

0270080 Bamboo shoots

0270090 Palm hearts

0270990 Others (2)

0300000 PULSES

0401000 Oilseeds

0401010 Linseeds

0401020 Peanuts/groundnuts

0401030 Poppy seeds

0401040 Sesame seeds

0401050 Sunflower seeds

0401060 Rapeseeds/canola seeds

0401070 Soyabeans

0401080 Mustard seeds

0401090 Cotton seeds

0401100 Pumpkin seeds

0401110 Safflower seeds

0401120 Borage seeds

0401130 Gold of pleasure seeds

0401140 Hemp seeds

0401150 Castor beans

0401990 Others (2)

0500000 CEREALS

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0620000 Coffee beans


  0630000 Herbal infusions from |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0620000 Coffee beans

0630000 Herbal infusions from

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods, residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0700000 HOPS |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods, residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0700000 HOPS

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on the analytical methods, residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0800000 SPICES |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on the analytical methods, residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0800000 SPICES

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0900010 Sugar beet roots |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0900010 Sugar beet roots

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0900020 Sugar canes |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues after repeated applications in permanent crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0900020 Sugar canes

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0900030 Chicory roots |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residues for rotational crops and data to confirm the plateau level in soil as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0900030 Chicory roots

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on the fate of the pyridine moiety as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1012030 Liver


  1013030 Liver


  1014030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on the fate of the pyridine moiety as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1012030 Liver

1013030 Liver

1014030 Liver

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on the fate of the pyridine moiety and the nature and magnitude of bound residues as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1016030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on the fate of the pyridine moiety and the nature and magnitude of bound residues as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 February 2018, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1016030 Liver

Etofenprox (F)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0110010 Grapefruits


  0110020 Oranges


  0110030 Lemons


  0110040 Limes


  0110050 Mandarins


  0140010 Apricots


  0140020 Cherries (sweet)


  0151000 (a) grapes


  0161060 Kaki/Japanese persimmons


  0162010 Kiwi fruits (green, red, yellow)


  0231010 Tomatoes


  0241010 Broccoli


  0241020 Cauliflowers


  0242020 Head cabbages


  0251010 Lamb's lettuces/corn salads


  0251020 Lettuces


  0251030 Escaroles/broad-leaved endives


  0251040 Cresses and other sprouts and shoots


  0251060 Roman rocket/rucola


  0252010 Spinaches


  0252030 Chards/beet leaves


  0256010 Chervil


  0256020 Chives


  0256030 Celery leaves


  0256040 Parsley


  0256050 Sage


  0256060 Rosemary


  0256070 Thyme


  0256080 Basil and edible flowers


  0256090 Laurel/bay leaves


  0256100 Tarragon


  0260010 Beans (with pods) |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0110010 Grapefruits

0110020 Oranges

0110030 Lemons

0110040 Limes

0110050 Mandarins

0140010 Apricots

0140020 Cherries (sweet)

0151000 (a) grapes

0161060 Kaki/Japanese persimmons

0162010 Kiwi fruits (green, red, yellow)

0231010 Tomatoes

0241010 Broccoli

0241020 Cauliflowers

0242020 Head cabbages

0251010 Lamb's lettuces/corn salads

0251020 Lettuces

0251030 Escaroles/broad-leaved endives

0251040 Cresses and other sprouts and shoots

0251060 Roman rocket/rucola

0252010 Spinaches

0252030 Chards/beet leaves

0256010 Chervil

0256020 Chives

0256030 Celery leaves

0256040 Parsley

0256050 Sage

0256060 Rosemary

0256070 Thyme

0256080 Basil and edible flowers

0256090 Laurel/bay leaves

0256100 Tarragon

0260010 Beans (with pods)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0300010 Beans |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0300010 Beans

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0401060 Rapeseeds/canola seeds |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0401060 Rapeseeds/canola seeds

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1011010 Muscle


  1011020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1011010 Muscle

1011020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1011030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1011030 Liver

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1011040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1011040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1012010 Muscle


  1012020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1012010 Muscle

1012020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1012030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1012030 Liver

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stabilit, on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1012040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stabilit, on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1012040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1013010 Muscle


  1013020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1013010 Muscle

1013020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1013030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1013030 Liver

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability, on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1013040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability, on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1013040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1014010 Muscle


  1014020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1014010 Muscle

1014020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1014030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1014030 Liver

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability, on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1014040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability, on metabolism and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1014040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1015010 Muscle


  1015020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1015010 Muscle

1015020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1015030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1015030 Liver

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1015040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1015040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1016020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on metabolism as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1016020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1017010 Muscle


  1017020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1017010 Muscle

1017020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1017030 Liver |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1017030 Liver

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1017040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability and on analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1017040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1020000 Milk


  1030000 Birds eggs |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 24 January 2021, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1020000 Milk

1030000 Birds eggs

Lambda-cyhalothrin (includes gamma-cyhalothrin) (sum of R,S and S,R isomers) (F)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0110000 Citrus fruits |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0110000 Citrus fruits

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0120000 Tree nuts


  0130000 Pome fruits |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0120000 Tree nuts

0130000 Pome fruits

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140010 Apricots |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140010 Apricots

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140020 Cherries (sweet) |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140020 Cherries (sweet)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140030 Peaches |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140030 Peaches

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140040 Plums


  0140990 Others (2) |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140040 Plums

0140990 Others (2)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia and XI) formed under sterilization conditions and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0150000 Berries and small fruits |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia and XI) formed under sterilization conditions and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0150000 Berries and small fruits

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0151000 (a) grapes


  0152000 (b) strawberries |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0151000 (a) grapes

0152000 (b) strawberries

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions, residue trials and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0153000 (c) cane fruits


  0154000 (d) other small fruits and berries |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions, residue trials and storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0153000 (c) cane fruits

0154000 (d) other small fruits and berries

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0161000 (a) edible peel


  0162000 (b) inedible peel, small


  0163000 (c) inedible peel, large


  0163010 Avocados |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0161000 (a) edible peel

0162000 (b) inedible peel, small

0163000 (c) inedible peel, large

0163010 Avocados

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0163020 Bananas |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0163020 Bananas

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0163030 Mangoes


  0163040 Papayas


  0163050 Granate apples/pomegranates


  0163060 Cherimoyas


  0163070 Guavas


  0163080 Pineapples


  0163090 Breadfruits


  0163100 Durians


  0163110 Soursops/guanabanas


  0163990 Others (2)


  0200000 VEGETABLES, FRESH or FROZEN


  0210000 Root and tuber vegetables


  0220000 Bulb vegetables


  0220010 Garlic |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0163030 Mangoes

0163040 Papayas

0163050 Granate apples/pomegranates

0163060 Cherimoyas

0163070 Guavas

0163080 Pineapples

0163090 Breadfruits

0163100 Durians

0163110 Soursops/guanabanas

0163990 Others (2)

0200000 VEGETABLES, FRESH or FROZEN

0210000 Root and tuber vegetables

0220000 Bulb vegetables

0220010 Garlic

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0220020 Onions


  0220030 Shallots |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0220020 Onions

0220030 Shallots

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0220040 Spring onions/green onions and Welsh onions


  0220990 Others (2)


  0230000 Fruiting vegetables


  0231000 (a) Solanaceae and Malvaceae


  0232000 (b) cucurbits with edible peel |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0220040 Spring onions/green onions and Welsh onions

0220990 Others (2)

0230000 Fruiting vegetables

0231000 (a) Solanaceae and Malvaceae

0232000 (b) cucurbits with edible peel

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0232010 Cucumbers |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0232010 Cucumbers

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0232020 Gherkins


  0232030 Courgettes


  0232990 Others (2)


  0233000 (c) cucurbits with inedible peel


  0234000 (d) sweet corn


  0239000 (e) other fruiting vegetables


  0240000 Brassica vegetables(excluding brassica roots and brassica baby leaf crops)


  0241000 (a) flowering brassica


  0241010 Broccoli


  0241020 Cauliflowers


  0241990 Others (2)


  0242000 (b) head brassica


  0242010 Brussels sprouts


  0242020 Head cabbages


  0242990 Others (2)


  0243000 (c) leafy brassica |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0232020 Gherkins

0232030 Courgettes

0232990 Others (2)

0233000 (c) cucurbits with inedible peel

0234000 (d) sweet corn

0239000 (e) other fruiting vegetables

0240000 Brassica vegetables(excluding brassica roots and brassica baby leaf crops)

0241000 (a) flowering brassica

0241010 Broccoli

0241020 Cauliflowers

0241990 Others (2)

0242000 (b) head brassica

0242010 Brussels sprouts

0242020 Head cabbages

0242990 Others (2)

0243000 (c) leafy brassica

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0243010 Chinese cabbages/pe-tsai |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0243010 Chinese cabbages/pe-tsai

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0243020 Kales


  0243990 Others (2)


  0244000 (d) kohlrabies


  0250000 Leaf vegetables, herbs and edible flowers


  0251000 (a) lettuces and salad plants


  0251010 Lamb's lettuces/corn salads


  0251020 Lettuces |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0243020 Kales

0243990 Others (2)

0244000 (d) kohlrabies

0250000 Leaf vegetables, herbs and edible flowers

0251000 (a) lettuces and salad plants

0251010 Lamb's lettuces/corn salads

0251020 Lettuces

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0251030 Escaroles/broad-leaved endives


  0251040 Cresses and other sprouts and shoots


  0251050 Land cresses


  0251060 Roman rocket/rucola |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0251030 Escaroles/broad-leaved endives

0251040 Cresses and other sprouts and shoots

0251050 Land cresses

0251060 Roman rocket/rucola

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0251070 Red mustards |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0251070 Red mustards

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0251080 Baby leaf crops (including brassica species) |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0251080 Baby leaf crops (including brassica species)

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0251990 Others (2)


  0252000 (b) spinaches and similar leaves


  0253000 (c) grape leaves and similar species


  0254000 (d) watercresses


  0255000 (e) witloofs/Belgian endives |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0251990 Others (2)

0252000 (b) spinaches and similar leaves

0253000 (c) grape leaves and similar species

0254000 (d) watercresses

0255000 (e) witloofs/Belgian endives

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0256000 (f) herbs and edible flowers |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0256000 (f) herbs and edible flowers

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0260000 Legume vegetables


  0270000 Stem vegetables


  0270010 Asparagus


  0270020 Cardoons


  0270030 Celeries


  0270040 Florence fennels


  0270050 Globe artichokes |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0260000 Legume vegetables

0270000 Stem vegetables

0270010 Asparagus

0270020 Cardoons

0270030 Celeries

0270040 Florence fennels

0270050 Globe artichokes

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0270060 Leeks |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0270060 Leeks

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0270070 Rhubarbs


  0270080 Bamboo shoots


  0270090 Palm hearts


  0270990 Others (2)


  0280000 Fungi, mosses and lichens


  0290000 Algae and prokaryotes organisms


  0300000 PULSES


  0400000 OILSEEDS AND OIL FRUITS


  0500000 CEREALS


  0500010 Barley


  0500020 Buckwheat and other pseudocereals


  0500030 Maize/corn


  0500040 Common millet/proso millet |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0270070 Rhubarbs

0270080 Bamboo shoots

0270090 Palm hearts

0270990 Others (2)

0280000 Fungi, mosses and lichens

0290000 Algae and prokaryotes organisms

0300000 PULSES

0400000 OILSEEDS AND OIL FRUITS

0500000 CEREALS

0500010 Barley

0500020 Buckwheat and other pseudocereals

0500030 Maize/corn

0500040 Common millet/proso millet

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0500050 Oat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0500050 Oat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0500060 Rice


  0500070 Rye


  0500080 Sorghum


  0500090 Wheat


  0500990 Others (2)


  0600000 TEAS, COFFEE, HERBAL INFUSIONS, COCOA AND CAROBS |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0500060 Rice

0500070 Rye

0500080 Sorghum

0500090 Wheat

0500990 Others (2)

0600000 TEAS, COFFEE, HERBAL INFUSIONS, COCOA AND CAROBS

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions, residue trials and analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0700000 HOPS |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions, residue trials and analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0700000 HOPS

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0800000 SPICES |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and analytical methods as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0800000 SPICES

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0900000 SUGAR PLANTS


  1000000 PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN -TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS


  1010000 Commodities from


  1011000 (a) swine


  1011010 Muscle


  1011020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0900000 SUGAR PLANTS

1000000 PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN -TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS

1010000 Commodities from

1011000 (a) swine

1011010 Muscle

1011020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1011030 Liver


  1011040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1011030 Liver

1011040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1011050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)


  1011990 Others (2)


  1012000 (b) bovine


  1012010 Muscle


  1012020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1011050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

1011990 Others (2)

1012000 (b) bovine

1012010 Muscle

1012020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1012030 Liver


  1012040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1012030 Liver

1012040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1012050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)


  1012990 Others (2)


  1013000 (c) sheep


  1013010 Muscle


  1013020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1012050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

1012990 Others (2)

1013000 (c) sheep

1013010 Muscle

1013020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1013030 Liver


  1013040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1013030 Liver

1013040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1013050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)


  1013990 Others (2)


  1014000 d) goat


  1014010 Muscle


  1014020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1013050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

1013990 Others (2)

1014000 d) goat

1014010 Muscle

1014020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1014030 Liver


  1014040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1014030 Liver

1014040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1014050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)


  1014990 Others (2)


  1015000 (e) equine


  1015010 Muscle


  1015020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1014050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

1014990 Others (2)

1015000 (e) equine

1015010 Muscle

1015020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1015030 Liver


  1015040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1015030 Liver

1015040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1015050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)


  1015990 Others (2)


  1016000 (f) poultry


  1016010 Muscle


  1016020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1015050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

1015990 Others (2)

1016000 (f) poultry

1016010 Muscle

1016020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1016030 Liver


  1016040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1016030 Liver

1016040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1016050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)


  1016990 Others (2)


  1017000 (g) other farmed terrestrial animals


  1017010 Muscle


  1017020 Fat |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1016050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

1016990 Others (2)

1017000 (g) other farmed terrestrial animals

1017010 Muscle

1017020 Fat

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1017030 Liver


  1017040 Kidney |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions and on the toxicological properties of some others (compounds Ia and XI) as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1017030 Liver

1017040 Kidney

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  1017050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)


  1017990 Others (2)


  1020000 Milk


  1030000 Birds eggs


  1040000 Honey and other apiculture products (7)


  1050000 Amphibians and Reptiles


  1060000 Terrestrial invertebrate animals


  1070000 Wild terrestrial vertebrate animals |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on certain metabolites (compounds Ia, IV and gamma-lactone) formed under sterilization conditions as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 6 July 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

1017050 Edible offals (other than liver and kidney)

1017990 Others (2)

1020000 Milk

1030000 Birds eggs

1040000 Honey and other apiculture products (7)

1050000 Amphibians and Reptiles

1060000 Terrestrial invertebrate animals

1070000 Wild terrestrial vertebrate animals

Triclopyr

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0110010 Grapefruits


  0110020 Oranges


  0110030 Lemons


  0110050 Mandarins |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0110010 Grapefruits

0110020 Oranges

0110030 Lemons

0110050 Mandarins

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods used in the storage stability studies as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0130010 Apples


  0130020 Pears |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods used in the storage stability studies as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0130010 Apples

0130020 Pears

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods used in the storage stability studies and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140010 Apricots |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods used in the storage stability studies and residue trials as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140010 Apricots

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods used in the storage stability studies as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0140030 Peaches |
| --- | --- |

(+)

The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on analytical methods used in the storage stability studies as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0140030 Peaches

| (+) | The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

  0500060 Rice” |
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The European Food Safety Authority identified some information on storage stability as unavailable. When re-viewing the MRL, the Commission will take into account the information referred to in the first sentence, if it is submitted by 16 May 2020, or, if that information is not submitted by that date, the lack of it.

0500060 Rice”

| (2) | in Annex IV, the following entries are inserted in alphabetical order: ‘cow milk’, ‘ferric pyrophosphate’ and ‘L-cysteine’. |
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(2)

in Annex IV, the following entries are inserted in alphabetical order: ‘cow milk’, ‘ferric pyrophosphate’ and ‘L-cysteine’.

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(*1)  Limit of analytical determination

(*2)  Pesticide-code combination for which the MRL as set in Annex III Part B applies.

(1)  For the complete list of products of plant and animal origin to which MRLs apply, reference should be made to Annex I.

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13.4.2021

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 125/42

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/591

of 12 April 2021

entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ (PDO))

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (1), and in particular Article 52(3)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

| (1) | Pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the application from Cyprus to register the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) identifying a product whose geographical area corresponds to the surface of Cyprus, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (2). |
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(1)

Pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the application from Cyprus to register the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) identifying a product whose geographical area corresponds to the surface of Cyprus, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (2).

| (2) | The Commission received in total 17 notices of opposition, namely from Dairy Australia (Australia) on 21 October 2015; Consortium for Common Food Names (United States) on 22 October 2015; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) on 23 October 2015; Milk and Oil Products Production and Marketing Cooperative Ltd. (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Hayvan Ureticileri ve Yetistiricileri Birligi (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Fatma GARANTI (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Sut Imalatcilari Birligi (SUIB) (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Industry (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce (Cyprus), on 26 October 2015; Navimar Food Gida Imalati ve Gida (Turkey) on 26 October 2015; D.M Gida Maddeleri Pazarlama Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti (Turkey) on 26 October 2015; Avunduk Ithalat Ihracat Gida ve Zirai Aletler Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. (Turkey) on 26 October 2015; U.T.CO Trading Company – W.L.L. – (Kuwait) on 27 October 2015; Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ) and New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association (New Zealand) on 27 October 2015; Dr Nutrition (United Arab Emirates) on 27 October 2015; FFF Fine Foods Pty Ltd (Australia) on 28 October 2015 and Finland on 3 November 2015. |
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(2)

The Commission received in total 17 notices of opposition, namely from Dairy Australia (Australia) on 21 October 2015; Consortium for Common Food Names (United States) on 22 October 2015; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) on 23 October 2015; Milk and Oil Products Production and Marketing Cooperative Ltd. (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Hayvan Ureticileri ve Yetistiricileri Birligi (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Fatma GARANTI (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Sut Imalatcilari Birligi (SUIB) (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Industry (Cyprus) on 26 October 2015; Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce (Cyprus), on 26 October 2015; Navimar Food Gida Imalati ve Gida (Turkey) on 26 October 2015; D.M Gida Maddeleri Pazarlama Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti (Turkey) on 26 October 2015; Avunduk Ithalat Ihracat Gida ve Zirai Aletler Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. (Turkey) on 26 October 2015; U.T.CO Trading Company – W.L.L. – (Kuwait) on 27 October 2015; Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ) and New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association (New Zealand) on 27 October 2015; Dr Nutrition (United Arab Emirates) on 27 October 2015; FFF Fine Foods Pty Ltd (Australia) on 28 October 2015 and Finland on 3 November 2015.

| (3) | The Commission forwarded these notices of opposition to Cyprus, with the exception of the notice of opposition of Finland and the notices from the six natural or legal persons resident or established in Cyprus. The notice of opposition sent by Finland was lodged with the Commission after the expiration of the deadline set out in Article 51(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. In accordance with that Article, natural or legal persons established or resident in the Member State from which the application was submitted are excluded from the opposition procedure as they already had the opportunity to participate in the national opposition procedure. In this specific case, the oppositions from the six natural or legal persons established or resident in Cyprus had been dismissed in the context of the national opposition procedure following an examination of the merits of the submitted grounds for opposition. Accordingly, neither the notices of opposition nor the subsequent reasoned statements of opposition from the six natural or legal persons established or resident in Cyprus are deemed admissible. |
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(3)

The Commission forwarded these notices of opposition to Cyprus, with the exception of the notice of opposition of Finland and the notices from the six natural or legal persons resident or established in Cyprus. The notice of opposition sent by Finland was lodged with the Commission after the expiration of the deadline set out in Article 51(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. In accordance with that Article, natural or legal persons established or resident in the Member State from which the application was submitted are excluded from the opposition procedure as they already had the opportunity to participate in the national opposition procedure. In this specific case, the oppositions from the six natural or legal persons established or resident in Cyprus had been dismissed in the context of the national opposition procedure following an examination of the merits of the submitted grounds for opposition. Accordingly, neither the notices of opposition nor the subsequent reasoned statements of opposition from the six natural or legal persons established or resident in Cyprus are deemed admissible.

| (4) | Nine reasoned statements of opposition were subsequently received by the Commission, namely from Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ) and New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association (New Zealand) on 15 December 2015; Dairy Australia (Australia) on 17 December 2015; the United Kingdom on 21 December 2015; Consortium for Common Food Names (United States) on 21 December 2015; Navimar Food Gida Imalati ve Gida (Turkey) on 21 December 2015; D.M Gida Maddeleri Pazarlama Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti (Turkey) on 21 December 2015; Avunduk Ithalat Ihracat Gida ve Zirai Aletler Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. (Turkey) on 21 December 2015; U.T.CO Trading Company – W.L.L. – (Kuwait) on 21 December 2015 and FFF Fine Foods Pty Ltd (Australia) on 24 December 2015. The notice of opposition lodged by Dr Nutrition (United Arab Emirates) was not followed by a reasoned statement of opposition, therefore the opposition thereof is deemed to have been withdrawn. |
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(4)

Nine reasoned statements of opposition were subsequently received by the Commission, namely from Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ) and New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association (New Zealand) on 15 December 2015; Dairy Australia (Australia) on 17 December 2015; the United Kingdom on 21 December 2015; Consortium for Common Food Names (United States) on 21 December 2015; Navimar Food Gida Imalati ve Gida (Turkey) on 21 December 2015; D.M Gida Maddeleri Pazarlama Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Sti (Turkey) on 21 December 2015; Avunduk Ithalat Ihracat Gida ve Zirai Aletler Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. (Turkey) on 21 December 2015; U.T.CO Trading Company – W.L.L. – (Kuwait) on 21 December 2015 and FFF Fine Foods Pty Ltd (Australia) on 24 December 2015. The notice of opposition lodged by Dr Nutrition (United Arab Emirates) was not followed by a reasoned statement of opposition, therefore the opposition thereof is deemed to have been withdrawn.

| (5) | After examining these reasoned statements of opposition and finding them admissible, the Commission invited all the interested parties, in accordance with Article 51(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, to engage in appropriate consultations in view of reaching an agreement. |
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(5)

After examining these reasoned statements of opposition and finding them admissible, the Commission invited all the interested parties, in accordance with Article 51(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, to engage in appropriate consultations in view of reaching an agreement.

| (6) | Consultations were carried out between Cyprus and the nine admissible opponents within a period of 3 months. The deadline for the consultations between Cyprus and the United Kingdom was extended by one additional month at the request of Cyprus. |
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(6)

Consultations were carried out between Cyprus and the nine admissible opponents within a period of 3 months. The deadline for the consultations between Cyprus and the United Kingdom was extended by one additional month at the request of Cyprus.

| (7) | No agreement was reached within the designated timeframe in any of those nine opposition procedures. The information concerning the consultations carried out between Cyprus and the opponents was duly provided to the Commission. Therefore, the Commission should decide on registration taking into account the results of these consultations in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 52(3)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. |
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(7)

No agreement was reached within the designated timeframe in any of those nine opposition procedures. The information concerning the consultations carried out between Cyprus and the opponents was duly provided to the Commission. Therefore, the Commission should decide on registration taking into account the results of these consultations in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 52(3)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.

| (8) | The arguments of the opponents as set out in their reasoned statements of opposition and in the consultations carried out can be summarised as follows. |
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(8)

The arguments of the opponents as set out in their reasoned statements of opposition and in the consultations carried out can be summarised as follows.

| (9) | The product specification indicates that the conditions for registration as a PDO are satisfied because the product concerned is made with sheep and goat’s milk which comes from local breeds – the Chios sheep and the Damascus goat – and their crosses that have adapted to the island’s climate. However, the Chios sheep and the Damascus goat were introduced in Cyprus in the 1950s and 1930s, respectively; additionally, there is no evidence of specific morphology or genetic or productive characteristics of such Cypriot sheep. The existence of a Cypriot type of Chios sheep is accordingly to be challenged. The relatively recent introduction of sheep and goats whose milk is reputed having a major role in determining the unique characteristics of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ would also be a reason to rebut the claimed antiquity (16th century) of the related tradition. |
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(9)

The product specification indicates that the conditions for registration as a PDO are satisfied because the product concerned is made with sheep and goat’s milk which comes from local breeds – the Chios sheep and the Damascus goat – and their crosses that have adapted to the island’s climate. However, the Chios sheep and the Damascus goat were introduced in Cyprus in the 1950s and 1930s, respectively; additionally, there is no evidence of specific morphology or genetic or productive characteristics of such Cypriot sheep. The existence of a Cypriot type of Chios sheep is accordingly to be challenged. The relatively recent introduction of sheep and goats whose milk is reputed having a major role in determining the unique characteristics of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ would also be a reason to rebut the claimed antiquity (16th century) of the related tradition.

| (10) | Animal feed is cited as a relevant factor in the application. However, the application does not specify how the feeding and grazing is uniquely connected with the Cyprus plants, taking into consideration that the geographical area of grazing encompasses the entire island. No evidence is given of the availability of these plants throughout the year and all over Cyprus. No evidence is given of the difference in the feeding among animals that are grazing all year round, animals of semi intensive farming and those of intensive farming. Further, no evidence is given that the cheese production level would be maintained while reducing the cow’s milk share in the raw materials. There would be insufficient evidence that the feed has a consistent impact on the quality or characteristics of the cheese produced. |
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(10)

Animal feed is cited as a relevant factor in the application. However, the application does not specify how the feeding and grazing is uniquely connected with the Cyprus plants, taking into consideration that the geographical area of grazing encompasses the entire island. No evidence is given of the availability of these plants throughout the year and all over Cyprus. No evidence is given of the difference in the feeding among animals that are grazing all year round, animals of semi intensive farming and those of intensive farming. Further, no evidence is given that the cheese production level would be maintained while reducing the cow’s milk share in the raw materials. There would be insufficient evidence that the feed has a consistent impact on the quality or characteristics of the cheese produced.

| (11) | As regards the human factor, even if Cyprus dairies may have established a specific ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ know-how, this does not confirm the existence of the required link between the characteristics of the product and the Cyprus geographical environment for the purposes of PDO registration, as such know-how and production methods may be replicated virtually everywhere. |
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(11)

As regards the human factor, even if Cyprus dairies may have established a specific ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ know-how, this does not confirm the existence of the required link between the characteristics of the product and the Cyprus geographical environment for the purposes of PDO registration, as such know-how and production methods may be replicated virtually everywhere.

| (12) | The application does not indicate that ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ is the product of ‘authentic and unvarying local methods’ as this name has been applied to a diversity of cheeses made with methods and raw materials that have varied over time and which continue to evolve. |
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(12)

The application does not indicate that ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ is the product of ‘authentic and unvarying local methods’ as this name has been applied to a diversity of cheeses made with methods and raw materials that have varied over time and which continue to evolve.

| (13) | The product specification is alien to the product actually marketed: the majority of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ produced in Cyprus is made using varying proportions and types of milk, with a predominance of cow’s milk. There are indications that 95 % of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ produced in Cyprus would currently have an 80-95 % cow’s milk content. |
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(13)

The product specification is alien to the product actually marketed: the majority of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ produced in Cyprus is made using varying proportions and types of milk, with a predominance of cow’s milk. There are indications that 95 % of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ produced in Cyprus would currently have an 80-95 % cow’s milk content.

| (14) | The product specification fails to respect the traditions of the whole of the geographical area indicated. The product specification concerns a traditional product made throughout the island of Cyprus, yet the application fails to include specific traditional characteristics of the cheese made by the producers of the Turkish Cypriot community. Thus, the product specification does not identify a product as actually marketed throughout the island. In particular, use of mint should be optional and raw milk should be allowed. |
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(14)

The product specification fails to respect the traditions of the whole of the geographical area indicated. The product specification concerns a traditional product made throughout the island of Cyprus, yet the application fails to include specific traditional characteristics of the cheese made by the producers of the Turkish Cypriot community. Thus, the product specification does not identify a product as actually marketed throughout the island. In particular, use of mint should be optional and raw milk should be allowed.

| (15) | Several statements included in the product specification are not supported by scientific evidence, such as the claim that ovine and caprine milk is important for the taste of the cheese; the differentiation in morphology of the Cypriot type of Chios sheep; the fact that the low molecular weight of free fatty acids affects the taste, smell and aroma of the cheese; the fact that the endemic plants that are mentioned as feed for animals contain essential oils; whether terpene is present in the Sarcopoterium spinosum and in which quantity, how terpenes is transferred from ingestion of the Sarcopoterium spinosum to the milk and subsequently to the halloumi, the presence of Lactobacillus cypricasei in fresh ovine Halloumi and the impact of fresh or dry mint on the sensory characteristics. |
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(15)

Several statements included in the product specification are not supported by scientific evidence, such as the claim that ovine and caprine milk is important for the taste of the cheese; the differentiation in morphology of the Cypriot type of Chios sheep; the fact that the low molecular weight of free fatty acids affects the taste, smell and aroma of the cheese; the fact that the endemic plants that are mentioned as feed for animals contain essential oils; whether terpene is present in the Sarcopoterium spinosum and in which quantity, how terpenes is transferred from ingestion of the Sarcopoterium spinosum to the milk and subsequently to the halloumi, the presence of Lactobacillus cypricasei in fresh ovine Halloumi and the impact of fresh or dry mint on the sensory characteristics.

| (16) | The product specification designates the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus as the sole competent authority for controls on compliance with the product specification in respect of the entire delimited geographical area. However, as that Ministry does not exercise effective control throughout the production area set out in the specification, a valid system for the verification of compliance with the product specification is not ensured. |
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(16)

The product specification designates the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus as the sole competent authority for controls on compliance with the product specification in respect of the entire delimited geographical area. However, as that Ministry does not exercise effective control throughout the production area set out in the specification, a valid system for the verification of compliance with the product specification is not ensured.

| (17) | The product specification does not refer to any delegated control body. Such failure is not remedied by the non-legally binding Common understanding on a temporary solution for ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’, to be implemented pending the reunification of Cyprus (‘the Common Understanding’), reached under the guidance of the President of the Commission on 16 July 2015, that refers to the appointment of the internationally accredited body Bureau Veritas in accordance with Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 (which has in substance been replaced by Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) on official controls) as the body in charge of the control tasks provided for by the former Regulation. |
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(17)

The product specification does not refer to any delegated control body. Such failure is not remedied by the non-legally binding Common understanding on a temporary solution for ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’, to be implemented pending the reunification of Cyprus (‘the Common Understanding’), reached under the guidance of the President of the Commission on 16 July 2015, that refers to the appointment of the internationally accredited body Bureau Veritas in accordance with Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 (which has in substance been replaced by Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) on official controls) as the body in charge of the control tasks provided for by the former Regulation.

| (18) | ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is produced in Bulgaria, Germany and Greece. Outside the Union, it is produced in Australia, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, several Middle Eastern countries (Iraq, Lebanon, Syria), New Zealand, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Entries and results in prestigious cheese contests confirm the well-established production of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ in locations outside Cyprus. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the name ‘Halloumi’ is claimed to have been used for cheese produced since the 1980s, with an estimate of about 300 tons per year. In addition, such products produced outside Cyprus and bearing the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ are marketed in a large number of Member States and third countries. |
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(18)

‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is produced in Bulgaria, Germany and Greece. Outside the Union, it is produced in Australia, Canada, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, several Middle Eastern countries (Iraq, Lebanon, Syria), New Zealand, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Entries and results in prestigious cheese contests confirm the well-established production of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ in locations outside Cyprus. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the name ‘Halloumi’ is claimed to have been used for cheese produced since the 1980s, with an estimate of about 300 tons per year. In addition, such products produced outside Cyprus and bearing the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ are marketed in a large number of Member States and third countries.

| (19) | A range of registered trade marks include the term ‘Halloumi’ in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Trade marks referring to ‘Hellim’ also exist in Germany, Sweden and Turkey. Hence, the proposed PDO would conflict with existing names, trade marks and products and is accordingly liable to jeopardise them in case of registration. In particular, the said presence in the Union market of specific trade marks including the name ‘Halloumi’ should prevent the Commission from registering such name since Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 provides that a name is not to be registered where, in the light of a trade mark’s reputation and renown and the length of time it has been used, that registration would be liable to mislead the consumer as to the true identity of the product. |
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(19)

A range of registered trade marks include the term ‘Halloumi’ in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Trade marks referring to ‘Hellim’ also exist in Germany, Sweden and Turkey. Hence, the proposed PDO would conflict with existing names, trade marks and products and is accordingly liable to jeopardise them in case of registration. In particular, the said presence in the Union market of specific trade marks including the name ‘Halloumi’ should prevent the Commission from registering such name since Article 6(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 provides that a name is not to be registered where, in the light of a trade mark’s reputation and renown and the length of time it has been used, that registration would be liable to mislead the consumer as to the true identity of the product.

| (20) | ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is produced and marketed both inside and outside the Union. Standards for the production of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ have been issued in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The use of this name in the Union beyond the boundaries of Cyprus is well established. The fact that the name ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is commonly used on cheese products which are not of Cypriot origin is a relevant piece of evidence which tends to show that it has become a generic term. |
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(20)

‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is produced and marketed both inside and outside the Union. Standards for the production of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ have been issued in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The use of this name in the Union beyond the boundaries of Cyprus is well established. The fact that the name ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is commonly used on cheese products which are not of Cypriot origin is a relevant piece of evidence which tends to show that it has become a generic term.

| (21) | In addition, ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ standards issued by Cyprus did not refer to any particular sheep, goat or cattle breeds or cross-breeds. Consumers consider ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ as a type of product. The Canada Federal Court and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) (now the European Union Intellectual Property Office) are of the view that ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is a generic type of cheese (4). |
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(21)

In addition, ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ standards issued by Cyprus did not refer to any particular sheep, goat or cattle breeds or cross-breeds. Consumers consider ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ as a type of product. The Canada Federal Court and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) (now the European Union Intellectual Property Office) are of the view that ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ is a generic type of cheese (4).

| (22) | Consumers in the Union and in third countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, associate ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ with a cheese type that has a high melting point, allowing it to be grilled or fried, a rubbery ‘squeaky’ texture, and a salty taste. These taste, textural and functional properties of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ are what make it unique for consumers, irrespective of the origin of the cheese, which is not relevant. |
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(22)

Consumers in the Union and in third countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, associate ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ with a cheese type that has a high melting point, allowing it to be grilled or fried, a rubbery ‘squeaky’ texture, and a salty taste. These taste, textural and functional properties of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ are what make it unique for consumers, irrespective of the origin of the cheese, which is not relevant.

| (23) | The Commission has assessed the arguments exposed in the reasoned statements of opposition in the light of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, taking into account the results of the consultations carried out between the applicant and the opponents, and it has concluded that the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ should be registered. The Commission considers in particular the following. |
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(23)

The Commission has assessed the arguments exposed in the reasoned statements of opposition in the light of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, taking into account the results of the consultations carried out between the applicant and the opponents, and it has concluded that the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ should be registered. The Commission considers in particular the following.

| (24) | Regarding the morphology of eligible sheep and goat, it stems from the information contained in the single document that the Chios sheep and the Damascus goat, introduced in the 1950s and 1930s respectively, have acquired morphological and production characteristics that diverged from those of the populations of origin, following a long-standing national breeding programme. There are incidentally numerous commercial references available on the internet as to international trade ongoing for decades of ‘Cyprus Chios sheep’ and ‘Cyprus Damascus goat’, from Cyprus to 20 countries, referring to the international reputation gained by Cyprus in its successful selective breeding thereof. |
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(24)

Regarding the morphology of eligible sheep and goat, it stems from the information contained in the single document that the Chios sheep and the Damascus goat, introduced in the 1950s and 1930s respectively, have acquired morphological and production characteristics that diverged from those of the populations of origin, following a long-standing national breeding programme. There are incidentally numerous commercial references available on the internet as to international trade ongoing for decades of ‘Cyprus Chios sheep’ and ‘Cyprus Damascus goat’, from Cyprus to 20 countries, referring to the international reputation gained by Cyprus in its successful selective breeding thereof.

| (25) | Thus, the development of unique sheep and goat breeds used in production of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as well as the development of the cheese itself does not negate the existence of origins of the product in the 16th century. In accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, a ‘designation of origin’ is a name which identifies a product: (a) originating in a specific place, region or, in exceptional cases, a country; (b) whose quality or characteristics are essentially or exclusively due to a particular geographical environment with its inherent natural and human factors; and (c) the production steps of which all take place in the defined geographical area. Therefore, to be registered as a PDO, it is sufficient that the name complies with those requirements. The production conditions of a given cheese may legitimately evolve gradually over time and are not required to remain unaltered for centuries. |
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(25)

Thus, the development of unique sheep and goat breeds used in production of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as well as the development of the cheese itself does not negate the existence of origins of the product in the 16th century. In accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, a ‘designation of origin’ is a name which identifies a product: (a) originating in a specific place, region or, in exceptional cases, a country; (b) whose quality or characteristics are essentially or exclusively due to a particular geographical environment with its inherent natural and human factors; and (c) the production steps of which all take place in the defined geographical area. Therefore, to be registered as a PDO, it is sufficient that the name complies with those requirements. The production conditions of a given cheese may legitimately evolve gradually over time and are not required to remain unaltered for centuries.

| (26) | Regarding the impact and availability of the feed, the single document indicates, inter alia, that the ‘local Cypriot vegetation consumed by the animals either fresh or dried, has a crucial effect on the quality of the milk and consequently the specific characteristics of the cheese (Papademas, 2000). The presence of the bacillus Lactobacillus cypricasei (lactobacillus from Cypriot cheese), which has been isolated only from Cypriot Halloumi, testifies to the link between the island’s microflora and the product (Lawson et al., 2001)’. Scientific surveys have been cited to demonstrate the link between the animal feed and the quality of the cheese made with the milk of the animals concerned. It has been shown, for example, that volatile compounds were detected in milk, originating from the plants used to feed the animals (Papademas et al. 2002). Moreover, based on other surveys, (Palmquist et al. 1993), the ratio of fat in milk, which is a crucial factor that affects the organoleptic characteristics of the cheese, depends on the diet of the animals. Based on another survey (Bugaud et al. 2001), the terpene content of milk is directly linked to the terpene content of the feed obtained by grazing. |
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(26)

Regarding the impact and availability of the feed, the single document indicates, inter alia, that the ‘local Cypriot vegetation consumed by the animals either fresh or dried, has a crucial effect on the quality of the milk and consequently the specific characteristics of the cheese (Papademas, 2000). The presence of the bacillus Lactobacillus cypricasei (lactobacillus from Cypriot cheese), which has been isolated only from Cypriot Halloumi, testifies to the link between the island’s microflora and the product (Lawson et al., 2001)’. Scientific surveys have been cited to demonstrate the link between the animal feed and the quality of the cheese made with the milk of the animals concerned. It has been shown, for example, that volatile compounds were detected in milk, originating from the plants used to feed the animals (Papademas et al. 2002). Moreover, based on other surveys, (Palmquist et al. 1993), the ratio of fat in milk, which is a crucial factor that affects the organoleptic characteristics of the cheese, depends on the diet of the animals. Based on another survey (Bugaud et al. 2001), the terpene content of milk is directly linked to the terpene content of the feed obtained by grazing.

| (27) | Moreover, the grazing of plants which are endemic of Cyprus, such as thyme and Sarcopoterium spinosum, and the ingestion of these plants, lead to the presence of related aromatic characteristics in the final product. |
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(27)

Moreover, the grazing of plants which are endemic of Cyprus, such as thyme and Sarcopoterium spinosum, and the ingestion of these plants, lead to the presence of related aromatic characteristics in the final product.

| (28) | Further, there are no provisions in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 requiring that the delimited area should offer an absolute homogeneity, nor that a PDO should refer to fully standardised and absolutely uniform products. Therefore, the opponents’ claims that local plants having an impact on product specificities are not available all over Cyprus are not relevant. |
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(28)

Further, there are no provisions in Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 requiring that the delimited area should offer an absolute homogeneity, nor that a PDO should refer to fully standardised and absolutely uniform products. Therefore, the opponents’ claims that local plants having an impact on product specificities are not available all over Cyprus are not relevant.

| (29) | The product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ has not been altered as compared with the related legislative standard adopted by Cyprus in 1985. Therefore, a potential scarcity of raw material available for the production of this cheese would not per se render the prescriptions on milk percentage or feedstuffs included in the product specification unattainable. In addition, Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 does not require quantitative production thresholds. Notwithstanding the above, a transitional period has been granted by Cyprus to the operators not able to meet the product specification requirements, in order for them to fully align their production to the requirements in that respect, allowing them, under stringent conditions, to provisionally use a lower amount of sheep and goat’s milk. |
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(29)

The product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ has not been altered as compared with the related legislative standard adopted by Cyprus in 1985. Therefore, a potential scarcity of raw material available for the production of this cheese would not per se render the prescriptions on milk percentage or feedstuffs included in the product specification unattainable. In addition, Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 does not require quantitative production thresholds. Notwithstanding the above, a transitional period has been granted by Cyprus to the operators not able to meet the product specification requirements, in order for them to fully align their production to the requirements in that respect, allowing them, under stringent conditions, to provisionally use a lower amount of sheep and goat’s milk.

| (30) | Regarding the human factors and know-how related to the production of this cheese, there are numerous references showing that it has been produced in Cyprus since 1554. The single document indicates in that respect that ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ is considered traditional to Cyprus, since it has played a very important role in the life and diet of the island’s inhabitants, both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. Knowledge of the production process has been handed down from one generation to the next. Both its characteristic folded shape and its specific property of not melting at high temperatures are due to this traditional production process that has been passed down through the generations. |
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(30)

Regarding the human factors and know-how related to the production of this cheese, there are numerous references showing that it has been produced in Cyprus since 1554. The single document indicates in that respect that ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ is considered traditional to Cyprus, since it has played a very important role in the life and diet of the island’s inhabitants, both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. Knowledge of the production process has been handed down from one generation to the next. Both its characteristic folded shape and its specific property of not melting at high temperatures are due to this traditional production process that has been passed down through the generations.

| (31) | Given worldwide migration of Cypriot citizens over centuries, the specific methods used to produce this cheese might have been copied elsewhere, yet the production of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ is still inseparably and uniquely linked to the culinary culture of Cyprus. |
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(31)

Given worldwide migration of Cypriot citizens over centuries, the specific methods used to produce this cheese might have been copied elsewhere, yet the production of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ is still inseparably and uniquely linked to the culinary culture of Cyprus.

| (32) | The human factor cannot be considered as an isolated element. Human and natural factors are meant to interact, thus determining the specific final result. |
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(32)

The human factor cannot be considered as an isolated element. Human and natural factors are meant to interact, thus determining the specific final result.

| (33) | Furthermore, Article 7(1)(e) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 does not require that the name to be registered refer to a product elaborated through centuries in an unvarying method. It merely requires the product specification to include the methods, if any, to obtain that specific product which are different from the standard methods used to obtain that kind of product. Therefore, the eligibility of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ may not be challenged on the ground that the production methods have not remained absolutely immutable. |
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(33)

Furthermore, Article 7(1)(e) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 does not require that the name to be registered refer to a product elaborated through centuries in an unvarying method. It merely requires the product specification to include the methods, if any, to obtain that specific product which are different from the standard methods used to obtain that kind of product. Therefore, the eligibility of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ may not be challenged on the ground that the production methods have not remained absolutely immutable.

| (34) | Other allegations in opponents’ claims relate to the discrepancy between the product described in the product specification and the one actually produced as regards the respective proportion of sheep, goat’s and cow’s milk and certain specific characteristics of the production methods followed by some producers of the Turkish Cypriot community that do not use mint or pasteurised milk. |
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(34)

Other allegations in opponents’ claims relate to the discrepancy between the product described in the product specification and the one actually produced as regards the respective proportion of sheep, goat’s and cow’s milk and certain specific characteristics of the production methods followed by some producers of the Turkish Cypriot community that do not use mint or pasteurised milk.

| (35) | However, firstly, such allegations have not been accompanied by any solid evidence. Secondly, the requirements concerning the addition of mint, the use of pasteurised milk and the respective proportion of sheep, goat’s and cow’s milk are already included in the relevant Cyprus standard adopted in 1985. Therefore, any product not conforming to such standard could not be legally marketed as ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ within Cyprus, independently of the fact that it may be marketed in the territory of third countries where this cheese would not be currently protected. Furthermore, an exhaustive national opposition procedure over several years has been carried out at national level on the current application, and natural or legal persons disagreeing with the legally required production standards have had the opportunity to raise fully their related claims in front of the administrative and judicial authorities of Cyprus. In that framework, as indicated, a transitional period has been granted to these operators. |
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(35)

However, firstly, such allegations have not been accompanied by any solid evidence. Secondly, the requirements concerning the addition of mint, the use of pasteurised milk and the respective proportion of sheep, goat’s and cow’s milk are already included in the relevant Cyprus standard adopted in 1985. Therefore, any product not conforming to such standard could not be legally marketed as ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ within Cyprus, independently of the fact that it may be marketed in the territory of third countries where this cheese would not be currently protected. Furthermore, an exhaustive national opposition procedure over several years has been carried out at national level on the current application, and natural or legal persons disagreeing with the legally required production standards have had the opportunity to raise fully their related claims in front of the administrative and judicial authorities of Cyprus. In that framework, as indicated, a transitional period has been granted to these operators.

| (36) | As regards the alleged lack of scientific evidence in respect of various parameters and characteristics included in the product specification, requesting overly detailed information is unreasonable, excessively burdensome and irrelevant. Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 does not require such a detailed technical and scientific description of each parameter or characteristic of the product for which the PDO concerned is to be used. |
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(36)

As regards the alleged lack of scientific evidence in respect of various parameters and characteristics included in the product specification, requesting overly detailed information is unreasonable, excessively burdensome and irrelevant. Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 does not require such a detailed technical and scientific description of each parameter or characteristic of the product for which the PDO concerned is to be used.

| (37) | The Commission has assessed the Cypriot application and it has not identified any manifest error therein. The opponents did not submit sufficiently reasoned evidence showing that the Cypriot application is inherently flawed. They essentially invoke insufficient scientific grounds for the application. The facts, statements, reasoning and references submitted by Cyprus are deemed sufficiently convincing to justify the registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as PDO under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. |
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(37)

The Commission has assessed the Cypriot application and it has not identified any manifest error therein. The opponents did not submit sufficiently reasoned evidence showing that the Cypriot application is inherently flawed. They essentially invoke insufficient scientific grounds for the application. The facts, statements, reasoning and references submitted by Cyprus are deemed sufficiently convincing to justify the registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as PDO under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.

| (38) | The product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ contains numerous elements qualifying the name as Protected Designation of Origin under Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012: the Mediterranean climate, characterised by hot/dry summers and mild/wet winters; the terrain, as mountains on the island receive a relatively high amount of rainfall, and affect the hydrology and environment of the lower lying areas; that, owing to its geological structure, climate, geographical position and surrounding sea, Cyprus has one of the richest floras in the Mediterranean, despite its small size; the local breeds of fat-tailed sheep and of the local Machaira and Pissouri goats, as well as other breeds which are well-adapted to the local climate; the local practice of cooking the product at a high temperature for a specific length of time without melting, so producing high levels of certain basic chemical compounds that help determine the taste of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ (mainly lactones and methyl ketones); the typical folding of the curds, as part of the production process, which sets ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ apart from all other cheeses; and the addition of Cypriot mint, which gives the final product its characteristic aroma. |
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(38)

The product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ contains numerous elements qualifying the name as Protected Designation of Origin under Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012: the Mediterranean climate, characterised by hot/dry summers and mild/wet winters; the terrain, as mountains on the island receive a relatively high amount of rainfall, and affect the hydrology and environment of the lower lying areas; that, owing to its geological structure, climate, geographical position and surrounding sea, Cyprus has one of the richest floras in the Mediterranean, despite its small size; the local breeds of fat-tailed sheep and of the local Machaira and Pissouri goats, as well as other breeds which are well-adapted to the local climate; the local practice of cooking the product at a high temperature for a specific length of time without melting, so producing high levels of certain basic chemical compounds that help determine the taste of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ (mainly lactones and methyl ketones); the typical folding of the curds, as part of the production process, which sets ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ apart from all other cheeses; and the addition of Cypriot mint, which gives the final product its characteristic aroma.

| (39) | Pursuant to the division of powers between the Commission and the Member States concerning the registration procedure of geographical indications under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the Commission should verify that a given application is not tainted with manifest errors, while competent national authorities, including, if applicable, national courts, are best placed to assess the technicalities of a given application before the application for registration is submitted to the Commission. |
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(39)

Pursuant to the division of powers between the Commission and the Member States concerning the registration procedure of geographical indications under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the Commission should verify that a given application is not tainted with manifest errors, while competent national authorities, including, if applicable, national courts, are best placed to assess the technicalities of a given application before the application for registration is submitted to the Commission.

| (40) | Pending the reunification of Cyprus, Article 1(1) of Protocol No 10 on Cyprus to the 2003 Act of Accession suspends the application of the acquis in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control. Consequently, the Cypriot Government may not be held liable for any consequences of not supervising the application of Union law in those areas. Pursuant to Article 3 of that Protocol, nothing is to preclude measures with a view to promoting the economic development of those areas. Such measures are not to affect the application of the acquis under the conditions set out in the Accession Treaty in any other part of the Republic of Cyprus. A bi-communal working group may be constituted in relation to ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ since experience has shown such groups play an important role. |
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(40)

Pending the reunification of Cyprus, Article 1(1) of Protocol No 10 on Cyprus to the 2003 Act of Accession suspends the application of the acquis in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control. Consequently, the Cypriot Government may not be held liable for any consequences of not supervising the application of Union law in those areas. Pursuant to Article 3 of that Protocol, nothing is to preclude measures with a view to promoting the economic development of those areas. Such measures are not to affect the application of the acquis under the conditions set out in the Accession Treaty in any other part of the Republic of Cyprus. A bi-communal working group may be constituted in relation to ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ since experience has shown such groups play an important role.

| (41) | Within this framework, considering that the natural and human factors related to the production of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ are objectively, traditionally and historically common to the entire island of Cyprus, the whole island of Cyprus should be included when delimiting the eligible geographical area of this cheese. |
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(41)

Within this framework, considering that the natural and human factors related to the production of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ are objectively, traditionally and historically common to the entire island of Cyprus, the whole island of Cyprus should be included when delimiting the eligible geographical area of this cheese.

| (42) | Accordingly, in order to allow the registration to cover the entire eligible geographical area of production of this cheese, and bearing in mind the requirement of Article 46(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, operators willing to adhere to the specification of this cheese should be able to do so without facing obstacles to participation that would prove discriminatory or otherwise not objectively founded. An effective and lasting control mechanism, in accordance with Articles 35 to 40 of that Regulation, ensuring compliance by operators with the product specification throughout the eligible geographical area should therefore be laid down. Bearing in mind that the acquis is suspended in the areas in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control, a workable arrangement should be exceptionally and temporarily established pending the reunification of Cyprus, in order to guarantee that controls may be efficiently performed throughout the island, as the lack thereof would constitute grounds for cancellation in accordance with Article 54 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. |
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(42)

Accordingly, in order to allow the registration to cover the entire eligible geographical area of production of this cheese, and bearing in mind the requirement of Article 46(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, operators willing to adhere to the specification of this cheese should be able to do so without facing obstacles to participation that would prove discriminatory or otherwise not objectively founded. An effective and lasting control mechanism, in accordance with Articles 35 to 40 of that Regulation, ensuring compliance by operators with the product specification throughout the eligible geographical area should therefore be laid down. Bearing in mind that the acquis is suspended in the areas in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control, a workable arrangement should be exceptionally and temporarily established pending the reunification of Cyprus, in order to guarantee that controls may be efficiently performed throughout the island, as the lack thereof would constitute grounds for cancellation in accordance with Article 54 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.

| (43) | Article 37(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 provides that in respect of protected designations of origin verification of compliance with the product specification, before placing the product on the market, may be carried out by delegated bodies as defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. Delegated bodies are separate legal persons to which certain official control tasks have been delegated. Within that framework and in line with the Common Understanding, as well as due to the exceptional situation in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus where the application of the acquis is suspended, it is appropriate that the internationally accredited body Bureau Veritas is appointed as the body in charge of the control tasks provided for by Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 in respect of the ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ specification throughout Cyprus. Registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, as envisaged by the Common Understanding, is conditional upon those control tasks being delegated to Bureau Veritas in accordance with Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. Indeed, Bureau Veritas has acquired a significant and long-standing expertise in checking PDOs, and is able to ensure the establishment of an effective, objective and impartial overall mechanism for the performance of the official controls related to the verification of compliance with the product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ throughout Cyprus at farm, feed mill, milk collection, transportation and cheese factory level. Thus, all producers throughout the island would be subject to a common control mechanism that ensures full compliance with the product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’. Should it be deemed appropriate, Bureau Veritas should be authorised to liaise with the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce. Should Bureau Veritas report instances of non-compliance and should the producers concerned fail to remedy the said instances of non-compliance, they should ultimately be deprived of the right to use the name. |
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(43)

Article 37(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 provides that in respect of protected designations of origin verification of compliance with the product specification, before placing the product on the market, may be carried out by delegated bodies as defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. Delegated bodies are separate legal persons to which certain official control tasks have been delegated. Within that framework and in line with the Common Understanding, as well as due to the exceptional situation in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus where the application of the acquis is suspended, it is appropriate that the internationally accredited body Bureau Veritas is appointed as the body in charge of the control tasks provided for by Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 in respect of the ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ specification throughout Cyprus. Registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, as envisaged by the Common Understanding, is conditional upon those control tasks being delegated to Bureau Veritas in accordance with Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. Indeed, Bureau Veritas has acquired a significant and long-standing expertise in checking PDOs, and is able to ensure the establishment of an effective, objective and impartial overall mechanism for the performance of the official controls related to the verification of compliance with the product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ throughout Cyprus at farm, feed mill, milk collection, transportation and cheese factory level. Thus, all producers throughout the island would be subject to a common control mechanism that ensures full compliance with the product specification of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’. Should it be deemed appropriate, Bureau Veritas should be authorised to liaise with the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce. Should Bureau Veritas report instances of non-compliance and should the producers concerned fail to remedy the said instances of non-compliance, they should ultimately be deprived of the right to use the name.

| (44) | Due to the exceptional situation in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus where the application of the acquis is suspended, the delegation to Bureau Veritas should provide that its reports be sent to the competent authorities of the Republic of Cyprus and to the Commission. The Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce will receive information when deemed appropriate. |
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(44)

Due to the exceptional situation in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus where the application of the acquis is suspended, the delegation to Bureau Veritas should provide that its reports be sent to the competent authorities of the Republic of Cyprus and to the Commission. The Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce will receive information when deemed appropriate.

| (45) | Intellectual property rights are governed by the principle of territoriality. As a consequence, the registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as a PDO within the Union is solely subject to the situation prevailing there. The possible production or marketing in third countries of a cheese bearing that name has no relevance in that connection. Likewise, the possible existence of regulatory production standards for this cheese outside the Union is of no relevance. |
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(45)

Intellectual property rights are governed by the principle of territoriality. As a consequence, the registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as a PDO within the Union is solely subject to the situation prevailing there. The possible production or marketing in third countries of a cheese bearing that name has no relevance in that connection. Likewise, the possible existence of regulatory production standards for this cheese outside the Union is of no relevance.

| (46) | It should further be pointed out that, in accordance with Article 2(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the placing on the market of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ within the Union is conditional on the compliance with other specific Union provisions of relevance, including the fulfilment of sanitary provisions applicable at Union level. |
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(46)

It should further be pointed out that, in accordance with Article 2(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the placing on the market of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ within the Union is conditional on the compliance with other specific Union provisions of relevance, including the fulfilment of sanitary provisions applicable at Union level.

| (47) | No solid evidence has been provided in the opposition procedure as regards imports of such cheese from third countries into the Union. As a consequence, there are no grounds for a transitional period under Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 to be granted to specific producers in third countries. |
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(47)

No solid evidence has been provided in the opposition procedure as regards imports of such cheese from third countries into the Union. As a consequence, there are no grounds for a transitional period under Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 to be granted to specific producers in third countries.

| (48) | It is undisputed that Cyprus is by far the largest producer and exporter of this cheese worldwide, with a production of more than 19 500 tons per year, amounting to 24,4 kg per capita. These figures do not include the production in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus where the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control. |
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(48)

It is undisputed that Cyprus is by far the largest producer and exporter of this cheese worldwide, with a production of more than 19 500 tons per year, amounting to 24,4 kg per capita. These figures do not include the production in the areas of the Republic of Cyprus where the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control.

| (49) | ‘Halloumi’ was registered as a trade mark in 2000 with the OHIM in respect of the cheese made in Cyprus pursuant to the relevant Cyprus standard adopted in 1985, thus in accordance with the ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ specification. A single opposition to such registration was lodged before the OHIM, yet subsequently withdrawn. Therefore, the Cypriot identity of such cheese was not challenged at that time. The General Court has also considered, notably in joined Cases T-292/14 and T-293/14 (5), that ‘HALLOUMI’ and ‘ΧΑΛΛΟΥMI’ refer to a speciality cheese from Cyprus. In Case T-535/10 (6), the General Court held that the Greek term ‘Halloumi’ is to be translated in the Turkish language as ‘Hellim’, thus both referring to the same special Cypriot cheese. In respect of other trade marks registered in the Union, should they conflict with the ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ designation, the provisions of Article 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 would apply. By contrast, no elements have been adduced by the opponents that would lead to the non-protection of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ due to the reputation or renown of a prior registered trade mark. |
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(49)

‘Halloumi’ was registered as a trade mark in 2000 with the OHIM in respect of the cheese made in Cyprus pursuant to the relevant Cyprus standard adopted in 1985, thus in accordance with the ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ specification. A single opposition to such registration was lodged before the OHIM, yet subsequently withdrawn. Therefore, the Cypriot identity of such cheese was not challenged at that time. The General Court has also considered, notably in joined Cases T-292/14 and T-293/14 (5), that ‘HALLOUMI’ and ‘ΧΑΛΛΟΥMI’ refer to a speciality cheese from Cyprus. In Case T-535/10 (6), the General Court held that the Greek term ‘Halloumi’ is to be translated in the Turkish language as ‘Hellim’, thus both referring to the same special Cypriot cheese. In respect of other trade marks registered in the Union, should they conflict with the ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ designation, the provisions of Article 14 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 would apply. By contrast, no elements have been adduced by the opponents that would lead to the non-protection of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ due to the reputation or renown of a prior registered trade mark.

| (50) | The United Kingdom was a Member State of the European Union when it lodged the opposition but it is no longer part of it. |
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(50)

The United Kingdom was a Member State of the European Union when it lodged the opposition but it is no longer part of it.

| (51) | According to the reasoned statement of opposition submitted by the United Kingdom its domestic production amounted to around 300 tons per year, amounting to 0,00461 kg per capita, while the United Kingdom imports roughly 6 500 tons of this cheese from Cyprus per year. |
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(51)

According to the reasoned statement of opposition submitted by the United Kingdom its domestic production amounted to around 300 tons per year, amounting to 0,00461 kg per capita, while the United Kingdom imports roughly 6 500 tons of this cheese from Cyprus per year.

| (52) | According to this reasoned statement, the registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as a protected designation of origin under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 would therefore prevent the use of the name ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ for cheese products produced in the United Kingdom. |
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(52)

According to this reasoned statement, the registration of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as a protected designation of origin under Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 would therefore prevent the use of the name ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ for cheese products produced in the United Kingdom.

| (53) | However, with the exception of Northern Ireland, this Regulation does not apply to the territory of the United Kingdom as the protection of the name would not extend thereto. As regards in particular Northern Ireland, on which territory the protection of the name will apply, in the light of the information included in the reasoned statement of opposition submitted by the United Kingdom to the Commission and of the factual and legal context concerning the use of the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, there are no valid grounds for operators to continue to use the name ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ for cheese products produced in the United Kingdom. |
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(53)

However, with the exception of Northern Ireland, this Regulation does not apply to the territory of the United Kingdom as the protection of the name would not extend thereto. As regards in particular Northern Ireland, on which territory the protection of the name will apply, in the light of the information included in the reasoned statement of opposition submitted by the United Kingdom to the Commission and of the factual and legal context concerning the use of the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, there are no valid grounds for operators to continue to use the name ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ for cheese products produced in the United Kingdom.

| (54) | Regarding the alleged generic nature of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, it should be stated that the perception of this term outside the European Union and the possible existence of related regulatory production standards or judicial decisions adopted in third countries are not deemed relevant to the present decision. |
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(54)

Regarding the alleged generic nature of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, it should be stated that the perception of this term outside the European Union and the possible existence of related regulatory production standards or judicial decisions adopted in third countries are not deemed relevant to the present decision.

| (55) | Contrary to the claims of the opponents, ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, has not become a type of cheese produced all over Europe whose name has become generic. The production of this cheese outside Cyprus is negligible, while the product is known and consumed in most of the Union territory. No national or Union acts have established the generic nature of the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’. No claims for the generic nature of the name have been made in the framework of the opposition procedure conducted at Union level, with the exception of the opposition from the United Kingdom. |
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(55)

Contrary to the claims of the opponents, ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’, has not become a type of cheese produced all over Europe whose name has become generic. The production of this cheese outside Cyprus is negligible, while the product is known and consumed in most of the Union territory. No national or Union acts have established the generic nature of the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’. No claims for the generic nature of the name have been made in the framework of the opposition procedure conducted at Union level, with the exception of the opposition from the United Kingdom.

| (56) | Likewise, the consumption of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ within the Union territory concerns in the vast majority of cases a cheese produced in Cyprus. |
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(56)

Likewise, the consumption of ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ within the Union territory concerns in the vast majority of cases a cheese produced in Cyprus.

| (57) | The Cypriot authorities have further convincingly demonstrated that Union consumers do not consider ‘Halloumi’ or ‘Hellim’ as a mere type of cheese, disconnected from a specific geographical origin. Evidence from stakeholders in the food industry, export activity of Cypriot companies for over 100 years, numerous articles in the media, cheese promotion/advertising activities show beyond any doubt the intrinsic Cypriot identity of this cheese since centuries. Equally, prestigious encyclopaedias and dictionaries from various countries and in different languages do confirm such standing and exclusive correlation between this cheese and the Cyprus terroir. |
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(57)

The Cypriot authorities have further convincingly demonstrated that Union consumers do not consider ‘Halloumi’ or ‘Hellim’ as a mere type of cheese, disconnected from a specific geographical origin. Evidence from stakeholders in the food industry, export activity of Cypriot companies for over 100 years, numerous articles in the media, cheese promotion/advertising activities show beyond any doubt the intrinsic Cypriot identity of this cheese since centuries. Equally, prestigious encyclopaedias and dictionaries from various countries and in different languages do confirm such standing and exclusive correlation between this cheese and the Cyprus terroir.

| (58) | Incidentally, a number of labels of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ produced outside Cyprus refer directly or indirectly to Cyprus, by suggesting that the cheese follows the Cypriot traditional recipe or tradition or is inspired by that recipe or tradition, or by using imagery or textual representations linking it to Cyprus culture. Such correlation made with Cyprus, albeit in respect of a non-Cypriot cheese, is thus suggested and sought deliberately as part of a sales strategy that capitalises on the reputation of the original product, hence creating a genuine risk of consumer confusion. |
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(58)

Incidentally, a number of labels of ‘Halloumi’/‘Hellim’ produced outside Cyprus refer directly or indirectly to Cyprus, by suggesting that the cheese follows the Cypriot traditional recipe or tradition or is inspired by that recipe or tradition, or by using imagery or textual representations linking it to Cyprus culture. Such correlation made with Cyprus, albeit in respect of a non-Cypriot cheese, is thus suggested and sought deliberately as part of a sales strategy that capitalises on the reputation of the original product, hence creating a genuine risk of consumer confusion.

| (59) | The statement of the OHIM concerning the allegedly generic nature of the name ‘Halloumi’ made in various decisions of the Board of appeal, and in particular in the Decision 20 September 2010 then annulled by the General Court (7), is merely an obiter dictum. That statement stands in contrast with the judgment of the General Court in Case T-535/10, that outlines the Cypriot identity of the cheese named ‘Halloumi’ or ‘Hellim’, and does not address the generic nature of the name within the meaning of Article 41 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. Furthermore, that statement was made before the submission of the application to register the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as a PDO. |
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(59)

The statement of the OHIM concerning the allegedly generic nature of the name ‘Halloumi’ made in various decisions of the Board of appeal, and in particular in the Decision 20 September 2010 then annulled by the General Court (7), is merely an obiter dictum. That statement stands in contrast with the judgment of the General Court in Case T-535/10, that outlines the Cypriot identity of the cheese named ‘Halloumi’ or ‘Hellim’, and does not address the generic nature of the name within the meaning of Article 41 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. Furthermore, that statement was made before the submission of the application to register the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ as a PDO.

| (60) | By letter of 9 July 2014, Cyprus communicated to the Commission that a transitional period of 10 years as from the date of submission of the application to the Commission had been granted, by decision No 326/2014 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus of 9 July 2014, to operators established in the geographical area that fulfil the conditions of Article 15(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. |
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(60)

By letter of 9 July 2014, Cyprus communicated to the Commission that a transitional period of 10 years as from the date of submission of the application to the Commission had been granted, by decision No 326/2014 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus of 9 July 2014, to operators established in the geographical area that fulfil the conditions of Article 15(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.

| (61) | In order to allow adequate time, taking into account also the additional constraints imposed by the pandemic of COVID-19, for the body in charge of the control tasks to put in place and implement its control plan allowing all operators in the geographical area willing to adhere to the rules of the scheme to be covered by the applicable verification system, the application of this Regulation should be deferred to 1 October 2021. |
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(61)

In order to allow adequate time, taking into account also the additional constraints imposed by the pandemic of COVID-19, for the body in charge of the control tasks to put in place and implement its control plan allowing all operators in the geographical area willing to adhere to the rules of the scheme to be covered by the applicable verification system, the application of this Regulation should be deferred to 1 October 2021.

| (62) | The name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ should therefore be entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications. |
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(62)

The name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ should therefore be entered in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications.

| (63) | The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Agricultural Product Quality Policy Committee, |
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(63)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Agricultural Product Quality Policy Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ (PDO) is registered.

The name referred to in the first paragraph identifies a product from Class 1.3. Cheeses set out in Annex XI to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 668/2014 (8).

Article 2

The protection of the name ‘Χαλλούμι’ (Halloumi)/‘Hellim’ (PDO) shall be subject to the 10 years transitional period granted by Cyprus, by decision No 326/2014 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment of the Republic of Cyprus of 9 July 2014, to operators established in the geographical area that fulfil the conditions of Article 15(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.

Article 3

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 October 2021.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 April 2021.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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(1)  
  OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 1.

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(2)  
  OJ C 246, 28.7.2015, p. 9.

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(3)  Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation) (OJ L 95, 7.4.2017, p. 1).

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(4)  Decision in Opposition No B2152604, Decision in Opposition No B2318585, Decision in Opposition No B2190257, Decision in Opposition No B2191396, Decision in Opposition No B002124637.

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(5)  Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 7 October 2015 in joined Cases T-292/14 and T-293/14 Republic of Cyprus v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs).

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(6)  Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 13 June 2012 in Case T-535/10 Organismos Kypriakis Galaktokomikis Viomichanias v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs).

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(7)  Decision of the fourth board of appeal of OHMI of 20 September 2010 (Case R 1497/2009-4), annulled by the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 13 June 2012 in Case T-535/10.

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(8)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 668/2014 of 13 June 2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ L 179, 19.6.2014, p. 36).

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COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2021/592

of 7 April 2021

on the submission, on behalf of the European Union, of a proposal for the listing of chlorpyrifos in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 192(1), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

| (1) | On 14 October 2004, the European Community approved the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (‘the Convention’) by means of Council Decision 2006/507/EC (1). |
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(1)

On 14 October 2004, the European Community approved the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (‘the Convention’) by means of Council Decision 2006/507/EC (1).

| (2) | As a Party to the Convention, the Union is able to submit proposals for the amendment of the Annexes to the Convention. Annex A to the Convention lists chemicals to be eliminated. |
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(2)

As a Party to the Convention, the Union is able to submit proposals for the amendment of the Annexes to the Convention. Annex A to the Convention lists chemicals to be eliminated.

| (3) | According to available scientific information and review reports, and taking due account of the screening criteria set out in Annex D to the Convention, chlorpyrifos exhibits characteristics of a persistent organic pollutant. |
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(3)

According to available scientific information and review reports, and taking due account of the screening criteria set out in Annex D to the Convention, chlorpyrifos exhibits characteristics of a persistent organic pollutant.

| (4) | Chlorpyrifos is not approved as an active substance pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) and is therefore not allowed to be placed on the market or used in the Union in plant protection products. Chlorpyrifos is also not approved as an active substance pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) and is therefore not allowed to be placed on the market or used in the Union in biocidal products. In addition, chlorpyrifos is not registered for any other use in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) and, consequently, it is not allowed to be manufactured or placed on the market in the Union for such other use in quantities of 1 tonne or more per year per manufacturer or importer. |
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(4)

Chlorpyrifos is not approved as an active substance pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) and is therefore not allowed to be placed on the market or used in the Union in plant protection products. Chlorpyrifos is also not approved as an active substance pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) and is therefore not allowed to be placed on the market or used in the Union in biocidal products. In addition, chlorpyrifos is not registered for any other use in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4) and, consequently, it is not allowed to be manufactured or placed on the market in the Union for such other use in quantities of 1 tonne or more per year per manufacturer or importer.

| (5) | Although chlorpyrifos has been phased out in the Union, it appears that it is still used as a pesticide and dispersed in the environment outside the Union. Due to the potential for long-range environmental transport of chlorpyrifos, the measures taken nationally or at Union level are not sufficient to safeguard the high level of protection of the environment and human health. Wider international action is therefore necessary. |
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(5)

Although chlorpyrifos has been phased out in the Union, it appears that it is still used as a pesticide and dispersed in the environment outside the Union. Due to the potential for long-range environmental transport of chlorpyrifos, the measures taken nationally or at Union level are not sufficient to safeguard the high level of protection of the environment and human health. Wider international action is therefore necessary.

| (6) | The Union should therefore submit a proposal to the Secretariat of the Convention for the listing of chlorpyrifos in Annex A to the Convention, |
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(6)

The Union should therefore submit a proposal to the Secretariat of the Convention for the listing of chlorpyrifos in Annex A to the Convention,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Union shall submit a proposal for the listing of chlorpyrifos (CAS No: 2921-88-2, EC No 220-864-4) in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

The Commission shall, on behalf of the Union, communicate the proposal referred to in the first subparagraph to the Secretariat of the Convention with all the information required under Annex D to the Convention.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Done at Brussels, 7 April 2021.

For the Council

The President

A. P. ZACARIAS

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(1)  Council Decision 2006/507/EC of 14 October 2004 concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (OJ L 209, 31.7.2006, p. 1).

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(2)  Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC (OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1).

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(3)  Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products (OJ L 167, 27.6.2012, p. 1).

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(4)  Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1).

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COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2021/593

of 9 April 2021

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation and within the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine on the adoption of standards concerning harmonised river information services

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91(1), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

| (1) | The Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Mannheim on 17 October 1868, as amended by the Convention amending the Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Strasbourg on 20 November 1963, entered into force on 14 April 1967 (the ‘Convention’). |
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(1)

The Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Mannheim on 17 October 1868, as amended by the Convention amending the Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Strasbourg on 20 November 1963, entered into force on 14 April 1967 (the ‘Convention’).

| (2) | Under the Convention, the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (‘CCNR’) may modify its regulatory framework related to river information services (‘RIS’) by referring to the standards adopted by the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation (‘CESNI’) and making those standards mandatory in the framework of the application of the Convention. |
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(2)

Under the Convention, the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (‘CCNR’) may modify its regulatory framework related to river information services (‘RIS’) by referring to the standards adopted by the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation (‘CESNI’) and making those standards mandatory in the framework of the application of the Convention.

| (3) | CESNI was created on 3 June 2015 in the framework of the CCNR in order to develop technical standards for inland waterways in various fields, in particular as regards vessels, information technology and crew. |
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(3)

CESNI was created on 3 June 2015 in the framework of the CCNR in order to develop technical standards for inland waterways in various fields, in particular as regards vessels, information technology and crew.

| (4) | Action by the Union in the sector of inland navigation aims to ensure uniformity in the development of technical specifications applied in the Union, in particular as regards RIS. |
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(4)

Action by the Union in the sector of inland navigation aims to ensure uniformity in the development of technical specifications applied in the Union, in particular as regards RIS.

| (5) | For the purposes of efficient transport and safe navigation on the inland waterways, it is important that RIS are compatible and as harmonised as possible under different legal regimes across Europe. |
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(5)

For the purposes of efficient transport and safe navigation on the inland waterways, it is important that RIS are compatible and as harmonised as possible under different legal regimes across Europe.

| (6) | CESNI, in its next meeting on 15 April 2021, is expected to adopt the European Standard – River Information Services 2021/1 (‘ES-RIS 2021/1’). |
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(6)

CESNI, in its next meeting on 15 April 2021, is expected to adopt the European Standard – River Information Services 2021/1 (‘ES-RIS 2021/1’).

| (7) | ES-RIS 2021/1 lays down uniform technical specifications and standards in order to support RIS and ensure their interoperability. The technical specifications and standards under ES-RIS 2021/1 correspond to the technical specifications and standards for which adoption is required by Directive 2005/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), in particular in the following areas: electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation; electronic ship reporting; notices to skippers; vessel tracking and tracing systems and compatibility of the equipment necessary for the use of RIS. |
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(7)

ES-RIS 2021/1 lays down uniform technical specifications and standards in order to support RIS and ensure their interoperability. The technical specifications and standards under ES-RIS 2021/1 correspond to the technical specifications and standards for which adoption is required by Directive 2005/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), in particular in the following areas: electronic chart display and information system for inland navigation; electronic ship reporting; notices to skippers; vessel tracking and tracing systems and compatibility of the equipment necessary for the use of RIS.

| (8) | Technical specifications for RIS are based on the technical principles set out in Annex II to Directive 2005/44/EC and take account of work carried out in this field by relevant international organisations. |
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(8)

Technical specifications for RIS are based on the technical principles set out in Annex II to Directive 2005/44/EC and take account of work carried out in this field by relevant international organisations.

| (9) | It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within CESNI, as ES-RIS 2021/1 will be capable of decisively influencing the content of Union law, namely the binding technical specifications adopted within the framework of Directive 2005/44/EC. |
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(9)

It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within CESNI, as ES-RIS 2021/1 will be capable of decisively influencing the content of Union law, namely the binding technical specifications adopted within the framework of Directive 2005/44/EC.

| (10) | The CCNR, in its plenary meeting on 2 June 2021, is expected to adopt a resolution that will amend the CCNR Regulations to include a reference to ES-RIS 2021/1. Therefore, it is also appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the CCNR. |
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(10)

The CCNR, in its plenary meeting on 2 June 2021, is expected to adopt a resolution that will amend the CCNR Regulations to include a reference to ES-RIS 2021/1. Therefore, it is also appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the CCNR.

| (11) | The Union is not a member of the CCNR or of CESNI. The Union’s position should therefore be expressed by the Member States that are members of those bodies, acting jointly in the interests of the Union, |
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(11)

The Union is not a member of the CCNR or of CESNI. The Union’s position should therefore be expressed by the Member States that are members of those bodies, acting jointly in the interests of the Union,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.   The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within CESNI with regard to the adoption of ES-RIS 2021/1 shall be to agree to its adoption.

2.   The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the CCNR shall be to support all proposals aligning the CCNR Regulations with ES-RIS 2021/1.

Article 2

1.   The position set out in Article 1(1) shall be expressed by the Member States that are members of the CESNI, acting jointly in the interests of the Union.

2.   The position set out in Article 1(2) shall be expressed by the Member States that are members of the CCNR, acting jointly in the interests of the Union.

Article 3

Minor technical changes to the positions set out in Article 1 may be agreed upon without further decision of the Council.

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Done at Brussels, 9 April 2021.

For the Council

The President

A. P. ZACARIAS

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(1)  Directive 2005/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on harmonised river information services (RIS) on inland waterways in the Community (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 152).

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COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2021/594

of 9 April 2021

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation and within the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine on the adoption of standards concerning professional qualifications in inland navigation

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91(1), in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

| (1) | The Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Mannheim on 17 October 1868, as amended by the Convention amending the Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Strasbourg on 20 November 1963, entered into force on 14 April 1967 (the ‘Convention’). |
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(1)

The Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Mannheim on 17 October 1868, as amended by the Convention amending the Revised Convention for the Navigation of the Rhine signed in Strasbourg on 20 November 1963, entered into force on 14 April 1967 (the ‘Convention’).

| (2) | Pursuant to Article 17 of the Convention, the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (‘CCNR’) may adopt requirements in the field of professional qualifications. |
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(2)

Pursuant to Article 17 of the Convention, the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (‘CCNR’) may adopt requirements in the field of professional qualifications.

| (3) | The European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation (‘CESNI’) was created on 3 June 2015 in the framework of the CCNR in order to develop technical standards for inland waterways in various fields, in particular as regards vessels, information technology and crew. |
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(3)

The European Committee for drawing up standards in the field of inland navigation (‘CESNI’) was created on 3 June 2015 in the framework of the CCNR in order to develop technical standards for inland waterways in various fields, in particular as regards vessels, information technology and crew.

| (4) | CESNI, in its next meeting on 15 April 2021, is expected to adopt a standard for basic safety training for deckhands laying down training requirements that Member States could follow as their national requirements (‘CESNI standard 20_04’) and a standard for standardised communication phrases in four languages for boatmen and boatmasters to be able to cope with situations involving communication problems (‘CESNI standard 20_39’). Both CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39 aim to facilitate the implementation of the requirements falling within the scope of Directive (EU) 2017/2397 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1). |
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(4)

CESNI, in its next meeting on 15 April 2021, is expected to adopt a standard for basic safety training for deckhands laying down training requirements that Member States could follow as their national requirements (‘CESNI standard 20_04’) and a standard for standardised communication phrases in four languages for boatmen and boatmasters to be able to cope with situations involving communication problems (‘CESNI standard 20_39’). Both CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39 aim to facilitate the implementation of the requirements falling within the scope of Directive (EU) 2017/2397 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1).

| (5) | The CCNR, in its plenary meeting on 2 June 2021, is expected to adopt a resolution that will amend the Regulations for Rhine Navigation Personnel in order to include a reference to the European Standards for Qualifications in Inland Navigation (‘ES-QIN standards’), including CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39. |
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(5)

The CCNR, in its plenary meeting on 2 June 2021, is expected to adopt a resolution that will amend the Regulations for Rhine Navigation Personnel in order to include a reference to the European Standards for Qualifications in Inland Navigation (‘ES-QIN standards’), including CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39.

| (6) | CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39 aim to contribute to maintaining the highest level of safety in inland navigation and would encourage harmonisation in the context of Directive (EU) 2017/2397. |
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(6)

CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39 aim to contribute to maintaining the highest level of safety in inland navigation and would encourage harmonisation in the context of Directive (EU) 2017/2397.

| (7) | It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within CESNI and within the CCNR. |
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(7)

It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within CESNI and within the CCNR.

| (8) | The Union is not a member of the CCNR or of CESNI. The Union’s position should therefore be expressed by the Member States that are members of those bodies, acting jointly in the interests of the Union, |
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(8)

The Union is not a member of the CCNR or of CESNI. The Union’s position should therefore be expressed by the Member States that are members of those bodies, acting jointly in the interests of the Union,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1.   The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within CESNI with regard to the adoption of CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39 shall be to agree to their adoption.

2.   The position to be taken on the Union’s behalf within the CCNR with regard to the adoption of a resolution amending the Regulations for Rhine Navigation Personnel in order to include a reference to the ES-QIN standards, including CESNI standard 20_04 and CESNI standard 20_39, shall be to support all proposals aligning the requirements of the Regulations for the Rhine Navigation Personnel with the ES-QIN standards.

Article 2

1.   The position set out in Article 1(1) shall be expressed by the Member States that are members of the CESNI, acting jointly in the interests of the Union.

2.   The position set out in Article 1(2) shall be expressed by the Member States that are members of the CCNR, acting jointly in the interests of the Union.

Article 3

Minor technical changes to the positions set out in Article 1 may be agreed upon without further decision of the Council.

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

Done at Brussels, 9 April 2021.

For the Council

The President

A. P. ZACARIAS

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(1)  Directive (EU) 2017/2397 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 on the recognition of professional qualifications in inland navigation and repealing Council Directives 91/672/EEC and 96/50/EC (OJ L 345, 27.12.2017, p. 53).

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COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2021/595

of 12 April 2021

amending Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:

| (1) | On 12 April 2011, the Council adopted Decision 2011/235/CFSP (1). |
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(1)

On 12 April 2011, the Council adopted Decision 2011/235/CFSP (1).

| (2) | On the basis of a review of Decision 2011/235/CFSP, the Council considers that the restrictive measures set out therein should be renewed until 13 April 2022. |
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(2)

On the basis of a review of Decision 2011/235/CFSP, the Council considers that the restrictive measures set out therein should be renewed until 13 April 2022.

| (3) | One person designated in the Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP is deceased, and his entry should be removed from that Annex. The Council has also concluded that the entries concerning 34 persons and one entity included in the Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP should be updated. |
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(3)

One person designated in the Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP is deceased, and his entry should be removed from that Annex. The Council has also concluded that the entries concerning 34 persons and one entity included in the Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP should be updated.

| (4) | Decision 2011/235/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly, |
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(4)

Decision 2011/235/CFSP should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2011/235/CFSP is amended as follows:

| (1) | in Article 6, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

  ‘2.   This Decision shall apply until 13 April 2022. It shall be kept under constant review. It shall be renewed, or amended as appropriate, if the Council deems that its objectives have not been met.’; |
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(1)

in Article 6, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2.   This Decision shall apply until 13 April 2022. It shall be kept under constant review. It shall be renewed, or amended as appropriate, if the Council deems that its objectives have not been met.’;

| (2) | the Annex is amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision. |
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(2)

the Annex is amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 12 April 2021.

For the Council

The President

A. P. ZACARIAS

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(1)  Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP of 12 April 2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran (OJ L 100, 14.4.2011, p. 51).

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ANNEX

The Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP (‘List of persons and entities referred to in Articles 1 and 2’) is amended as follows:

| (1) | entry 16 (concerning HADDAD Hassan (alias Hassan ZAREH DEHNAVI) in the list headed ‘Persons’ is deleted; |
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entry 16 (concerning HADDAD Hassan (alias Hassan ZAREH DEHNAVI) in the list headed ‘Persons’ is deleted;

| (2) | the entries for the following 34 persons and one entity are replaced by the following:
  Persons | Name | Identifying information | Reasons | Date of listing |
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| ‘1. | AHMADI-MOQADDAM Esmail | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: 1961
  Gender: male | Former Senior Advisor for Security Affairs to the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff. Chief of Iran’s National Police from 2005 until early 2015. Also Head of the Iranian Cyber Police (listed) from January 2011 until early 2015. Forces under his command led brutal attacks on peaceful protests and a violent night-time attack on the dormitories of Tehran University on 15 June 2009. Former head of Iran’s Headquarters in support of the Yemeni People. | 12.4.2011 |
| 4. | FAZLI Ali | Gender: male
  Title: Brigadier-General | Former Chief of the Imam Hossein Cadet College (2018-June 2020). Former deputy Commander of the Basij (2009-2018), Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province (until February 2010). The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps is in charge of security in Tehran province and played a key role in the brutal repression of protesters in 2009. | 12.4.2011 |
| 8. | MOTLAGH Bahram Hosseini | Gender: male | Member of the teaching staff of Imam Hossein University (Guardians of the Revolution). Former Head of the Army Command and General Staff College (DAFOOS). Former Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province. The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps played a key role in organising the repression of protests in 2009. | 12.4.2011 |
| 11. | RAJABZADEH Azizollah | Gender: male | Commander of the Urban Order Headquarters since 2014. Former Head of Tehran Disaster Mitigation Organisation (2010-2013). As Head of Tehran Police until January 2010, he was responsible for violent police attacks on protesters and students. As Commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in the Greater Tehran, he was the highest ranking accused in the case of abuses in Kahrizak Detention Centre in December 2009. | 12.4.2011 |
| 15. | DORRI-NADJAFABADI Ghorban-Ali | POB: Najafabad (Iran)
  DOB: 3.12.1950
  Gender: male | Member of the Assembly of Experts and representative of the Supreme Leader in Markazi (‘Central’) Province and Head of the Supreme Administrative Court. Prosecutor General of Iran until September 2009, as well as former Intelligence Minister under Khatami presidency. As Prosecutor General of Iran, he ordered and supervised the show trials following the first post-election protests, where the accused were denied their rights and access to an attorney. | 12.4.2011 |
| 19. | JAFARI-DOLATABADI Abbas | POB: Yazd (Iran)
  DOB: 1953
  Gender: male | Advisor to the Supreme Disciplinary Court of judges since 29 April 2019. Former Prosecutor General of Tehran (August 2009-April 2019). Dolatabadi’s office indicted a large number of protesters, including individuals who took part in the December 2009 Ashura Day protests. He ordered the closure of Karroubi’s office in September 2009 and the arrest of several reformist politicians, and he banned two reformist political parties in June 2010. His office charged protesters with ‘Muharebeh’, or ‘enmity against God’, which carries the death penalty, and denied due process to those facing the death penalty. His office also targeted and arrested reformists, human rights activists and members of the media, as part of a broad crackdown on the political opposition.
  In October 2018 he announced to the media that four detained Iranian environmental activists were to be charged with ‘sowing corruption on earth’, a charge which carries the death penalty. | 12.4.2011 |
| 21. | MOHSENI-EJEI Gholam-Hossein | POB: Ejiyeh (Iran)
  DOB: circa 1956
  Gender: male | Member of the Expediency Council. Prosecutor General of Iran from September 2009 until 2014. Formerly Deputy Head and spokesperson of the Judiciary. Former Intelligence Minister during the 2009 elections. While he was Intelligence Minister during the 2009 election, intelligence agents under his command were responsible for detention, torture and extraction of false confessions under pressure from hundreds of activists, journalists, dissidents and reformist politicians. In addition, political figures were coerced into making false confessions under unbearable interrogation, which included torture, abuse, blackmail and the threatening of family members. | 12.4.2011 |
| 22. | MORTAZAVI Said | POB: Meybod, Yazd (Iran)
  DOB: 1967
  Gender: male | Head of the Welfare System from 2011 to 2013. Prosecutor General of Tehran until August 2009. As Prosecutor General of Tehran, he issued a blanket order used for the detention of hundreds of activists, journalists and students. In January 2010 a parliamentary investigation held him directly responsible for the detention of three prisoners who subsequently died in custody. He was suspended from office in August 2010 after an investigation by the Iranian judiciary into his role in the deaths of the three men detained on his orders following the election.
  In November 2014, his role in the deaths of detainees was officially recognised by the Iranian authorities. He was acquitted by an Iranian Court on 19 August 2015, on charges connected to the torture and deaths of three young men at the Kahrizak detention centre in 2009. Sentenced to prison in 2017 and released in September 2019. | 12.4.2011 |
| 27. | ZARGAR Ahmad | Gender: male | Judge at the Supreme Court and Chief of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Head of the ‘Organization for the Preservation of Morality’. Former judge at the 2nd Branch of the Special Economic Corruption Court. Former judge, Tehran Appeals Court, Branch 36.
  He confirmed long-term jail warrants and death warrants against protesters. | 12.4.2011 |
| 33. | ABBASZADEH-MESHKINI Mahmoud | Gender: male | Member of Parliament since February 2020. Former Advisor to Iran’s High Council for Human Rights (until 2019). Former secretary of the High Council for Human Rights. Former Governor of Ilam Province. Former Political Director of the Interior Ministry. As Head of the Article 10 Committee of the Law on Activities of Political Parties and Groups, he was in charge of authorising demonstrations and other public events and registering political parties.
  In 2010, he suspended the activities of two reformist political parties linked to Mousavi – the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mujahedeen Organisation. From 2009 onwards he has consistently and continuously prohibited all non-governmental gatherings, therefore denying a constitutional right to protest and leading to many arrests of peaceful demonstrators in contravention of the right to freedom of assembly.
  In 2009 he also denied the opposition a permit for a ceremony to mourn people killed in protests over the Presidential elections. | 10.10.2011 |
| 34. | AKBARSHAHI Ali-Reza | Gender: male | Former Director-General of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (a.k.a. Anti-Narcotics Headquarters). Former Commander of Tehran Police. Under his leadership, the police force was responsible for the use of extrajudicial force on suspects during arrest and pre-trial detention. The Tehran police were also implicated in raids on Tehran university dorms in June 2009 when, according to an Iranian Majlis commission, more than 100 students were injured by the police and Basiji. Until 2018, head of the railway police. | 10.10.2011 |
| 36. | AVAEE Seyyed Ali-Reza (a.k.a. AVAEE Seyyed Alireza, AVAIE Alireza) | POB: Dezful (Iran)
  DOB: 20.5.1956
  Gender: male | Minister of Justice. Former Director of the special investigations office. Until July 2016 Deputy Minister of the Interior and Head of the Public Register. Advisor to the Disciplinary Court for Judges since April 2014. Former President of the Tehran Judiciary. As President of the Tehran Judiciary he has been responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and a high number of executions. | 10.10.2011 |
| 39. | GANJI Mostafa Barzegar | Gender: male | General Director of Inspection Supervision and Performance Evaluation of Courts since June 2020. Former Prosecutor General of Qom (2008-2017) and former Head of the Directorate-General for prisons. He was responsible for the arbitrary detention and maltreatment of dozens of offenders in Qom. He was complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty and a sharp increase in executions in 2009/2010. | 10.10.2011 |
| 40. | HABIBI Mohammad Reza | Gender: male | Chief Justice of Isfahan. Former Attorney General of Isfahan. Former Head of the Ministry of Justice office in Yazd. Former Deputy Prosecutor of Isfahan. Complicit in proceedings denying defendants a fair trial – such as Abdollah Fathi, executed in May 2011 after his right to be heard and mental health issues were ignored by Habibi during his trial in March 2010. He was, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to a sharp increase in executions in 2011. | 10.10.2011 |
| 41. | HEJAZI Mohammad | POB: Ispahan (Iran)
  DOB: 1956
  Gender: male | Deputy Commander of IRGC’s Quds Force since 2020 as a result of the reorganisation of its chain of command following the killing of General Qasem Soleimani. As IRGC-General he has played a key role in intimidating and threatening Iran’s ‘enemies’. Former Head of the IRGC’s Sarollah Corps in Tehran, and former Head of the Basij Forces, he played a central role in the post-election crackdown on protesters in 2009. | 10.10.2011 |
| 44. | JAZAYERI Massoud | Gender: male
  Title: Brigadier-General | Cultural advisor to the Joint Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces since April 2018. Within the joint military staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Brigadier-General Massoud Jazayeri was the Deputy Chief of Staff for cultural and media affairs (a.k.a. State Defence Publicity HQ). He actively collaborated in the repression of 2009 protests as Deputy Chief of Staff. He warned in a Kayhan interview that many protesters inside and outside Iran had been identified and would be dealt with at the right time.
  He has openly called for the suppression of foreign mass media outlets and the Iranian opposition. In 2010, he asked the government to pass tougher laws against Iranians who cooperate with foreign media sources. | 10.10.2011 |
| 45. | JOKAR Mohammad Saleh | POB: Yazd (Iran)
  DOB: 1957
  Gender: male | Member of Parliament for the Province of Yazd. Former Deputy for Parliamentary Affairs of the Revolutionary Guards. From 2011 to 2016, parliamentary deputy for the Province of Yazd and Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy. Former Commander of Student Basij Forces. In this role, he was actively involved in suppressing protests and indoctrinating children and young people with a view to continuing suppression of free speech and dissent. As Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy, he publically supported the suppression of opposition to the government. | 10.10.2011 |
| 46. | KAMALIAN Behrouz (a.k.a. Hackers Brain, Behrooz_Ice) | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: 1983
  Gender: male | Head of the ‘Ashiyaneh’ cyber group linked with the Iranian regime. The ‘Ashiyaneh’ Digital Security, founded by Behrouz Kamalian, is responsible for intensive cyber attacks both on domestic opponents and reformists and foreign institutions. Kamalian’s ‘Ashiyaneh’ organisation’s work has assisted the regime’s crackdown against the opposition, which has involved numerous serious human rights violations in 2009. Both Kamalian and the ‘Ashiyaneh’ cyber group have continued their activities until at least January 2020. | 10.10.2011 |
| 47. | KHALILOLLAHI Moussa (a.k.a. KHALILOLLAHI Mousa, ELAHI Mousa Khalil) | POB: Tabriz (Iran)
  DOB: 1963
  Gender: male | Prosecutor of Tabriz from 2010 to 2019. He was involved in Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s case and is complicit in grave violations of the right to due process. | 10.10.2011 |
| 48. | MAHSOULI Sadeq (a.k.a. MAHSULI Sadeq) | POB: Oroumieh (Iran)
  DOB: 1959/1960
  Gender: male | Deputy Secretary-General of the Paydari Front (Front of Islamic Stability). Former Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former member of the Expediency Council and former Deputy Chief of the Perseverance Front. Minister of Welfare and Social Security between 2009 and 2011. Minister of the Interior until August 2009. As Minister of the Interior, Mahsouli had authority over all police forces, interior ministry security agents, and plain-clothes agents. The forces under his direction were responsible for attacks on the dormitories of Tehran University on 14 June 2009 and the torture of students in the basement of the Ministry (the notorious basement level 4). Other protestors were severely abused at the Kahrizak Detention Centre, which was operated by police under Mahsouli’s control. | 10.10.2011 |
| 53. | TALA Hossein (a.k.a. TALA Hosseyn) | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: 1969
  Gender: male | Mayor of Eslamshahr. Former Iranian MP. Former Governor-General (‘Farmandar’) of Tehran Province until September 2010, he was responsible for the intervention of police forces and therefore for the repression of demonstrations. He received a prize in December 2010 for his role in the post-election repression. | 10.10.2011 |
| 54. | TAMADDON Morteza (a.k.a. TAMADON Morteza) | POB: Shahr Kord-Isfahan (Iran)
  DOB: 1959
  Gender: male | Former Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council. Former IRGC Governor-General of Tehran Province. In his capacity as Governor and Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council, he bore overall responsibility for all repressive activities undertaken by the IRGC in Tehran Province, including cracking down on political protests since June 2009. Currently board member at Khajeh Nasireddin Tusi University of Technology. | 10.10.2011 |
| 60. | HOSSEINI Dr Mohammad (a.k.a. HOSSEYNI Dr Seyyed Mohammad; Seyed, Sayyed and Sayyid) | POB: Rafsanjan, Kerman (Iran)
  DOB: 23.7.1961
  Gender: male | Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and spokesperson for YEKTA, a hardline political faction. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance (2009-2013). Ex-IRGC, he was complicit in the repression of journalists. | 10.10.2011 |
| 63. | TAGHIPOUR Reza | POB: Maragheh (Iran)
  DOB: 1957
  Gender: male | Member of the 11th Iranian parliament (Tehran constituency). Member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former Member of the City Council of Teheran. Former Minister for Information and Communications (2009-2012).
  As Minister for Information, he was one of the top officials in charge of censorship and control of internet activities and also all types of communications (in particular mobile phones). During interrogations of political detainees, the interrogators make use of the detainees’ personal data, mail and communications. On several occasions following the 2009 presidential election and during street demonstrations, mobile lines and text messaging were blocked, satellite TV channels were jammed and the internet locally suspended or at least slowed down. | 23.3.2012 |
| 65. | LARIJANI Sadeq | POB: Najaf (Iraq)
  DOB: 1960 or August 1961
  Gender: male | Named Head of the Expediency Council on 29 December 2018. Former Head of the Judiciary (2009-2019). The Head of the Judiciary is required to consent to and sign off every qisas (retribution), hodoud (crimes against God) and ta’zirat (crimes against the state) punishment. This includes sentences carrying the death penalty, floggings and amputations. In this regard, he has personally signed off numerous death penalty sentences, contravening international standards, including stoning, executions by suspension strangulation, execution of juveniles, and public executions such as those where prisoners have been hanged from bridges in front of crowds of thousands. Therefore, he has contributed to a high number of executions. He has also permitted corporal punishment sentences such as amputations and the dripping of acid into the eyes of the convicted. Since Sadeq Larijani took office, arbitrary arrests of political prisoners, human rights defenders and minorities have increased markedly. Sadeq Larijani also bears responsibility for systemic failures in the Iranian judicial process with respect to the right to a fair trial. | 23.3.2012 |
| 66. | MIRHEJAZI Ali | Gender: male | Part of the Supreme Leader’s inner circle, one of those responsible for planning the suppression of protests, which has been implemented since 2009, and associated with those responsible for supressing the protests.
  He was also responsible for planning the suppression of public unrest in December 2017/2018 and November 2019. | 23.3.2012 |
| 67. | SAEEDI Ali | Gender: male | Head of the Supreme Leader’s political ideology bureau. Former representative of the Supreme Leader for the Pasdaran (1995-2020) after spending his whole career within the institution of the military, and specifically in the Pasdaran intelligence service. This official role made him the key figure in the transmission of orders emanating from the Office of the Supreme Leader to the Pasdaran’s repression apparatus. | 23.3.2012 |
| 69. | MORTAZAVI Seyyed Solat | POB: Farsan, Tchar Mahal-o-Bakhtiari (South) – (Iran)
  DOB: 1967
  Gender: male | Since 16 September 2019, head of the real estate branch of the Mostazafan Foundation, which is directly run by Supreme Leader Khamenei. Until November 2019, Director of the Tehran branch of the Foundation Astan Qods Razavi. Former mayor of the second largest city of Iran, Mashhad, where public executions regularly happen. Former Deputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs, appointed in 2009. In this capacity, he was responsible for directing repression of persons who spoke up in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression. Later appointed as Head of the Iranian Election Committee for the parliamentarian elections in 2012 and for the presidential elections in 2013. | 23.3.2012 |
| 73. | FARHADI Ali | Gender: male | Deputy Head of Inspectorate of Legal Affairs and Public Inspection of the Ministry of Justice of Tehran. Former prosecutor of Karaj. Responsible for grave violations of human rights, including prosecuting trials in which the death penalty was handed down. There were a high number of executions in Karaj region during his time as prosecutor. | 23.3.2012 |
| 79. | RASHIDI AGHDAM Ali Ashraf | Gender: male | Former head of Evin Prison (2012-2015). During his tenure, conditions in the prison deteriorated and reports referenced intensified ill-treatment of prisoners. In October 2012, nine female prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of the violation of their rights and violent treatment by prison guards. | 12.3.2013 |
| 82. | SARAFRAZ Mohammad (Dr.) (a.k.a. Haj-agha Sarafraz) | POB: Tehran (Iran)
  DOB: circa 1963
  Place of residence: Tehran
  Gender: male | Former member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) (2014-2016). Former Head of IRIB World Service and Press TV, responsible for all programming decisions. Closely associated with the state security apparatus. Under his direction, Press TV, along with IRIB, has worked with the Iranian security services and prosecutors to broadcast forced confessions of detainees, including that of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari, in the weekly programme ‘Iran Today’. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting Bahari’s confession in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. Sarafraz is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial. | 12.3.2013 |
| 84. | EMADI Hamid Reza (a.k.a. Hamidreza Emadi) | POB: Hamedan (Iran)
  DOB: circa 1973
  Place of residence: Tehran
  Place of work: Press TV HQ, Tehran
  Gender: male | Press TV Newsroom Director. Former Press TV Senior Producer.
  Responsible for producing and broadcasting the forced confessions of detainees, including journalists, political activists and persons belonging to Kurdish and Arab minorities, violating internationally recognised rights to a fair trial and due process. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting the forced confession of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. NGOs have reported further instances of forced televised confessions by Press TV. Emadi is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial. | 12.3.2013 |
| 86. | MUSAVI-TABAR Seyyed Reza | POB: Jahrom (Iran)
  DOB: 1964
  Gender: male | Former head of the Revolutionary Prosecution of Shiraz. Responsible for illegal arrests and ill treatment of political activists, journalists, human rights defenders, Baha’is and prisoners of conscience, who were harassed, tortured, interrogated and denied access to lawyers and due process. Musavi-Tabar signed judicial orders in the notorious No 100 Detention Centre (a male prison), including an order to detain female Baha’i prisoner Raha Sabet for three years in solitary confinement. | 12.3.2013 |
| 87. | KHORAMABADI Abdolsamad | Gender: male | Deputy Director for Judicial Oversight (since 13 October 2018). Former head of the ‘Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content’, a governmental organisation in charge of online censorship and cyber crime. Under his leadership, the Commission defined ‘cyber crime’ by a number of vague categories that criminalise creation and publication of content deemed inappropriate by the regime. He was responsible for repression and the blocking of numerous opposition sites, electronic newspapers, blogs, sites of human rights NGOs and of Google and Gmail since September 2012. He and the Commission actively contributed to the death in detention of the blogger Sattar Beheshti in November 2012. Thus the Commission he was heading is directly responsible for systemic violations of human rights, in particular by banning and filtering websites to the general public, and occasionally disabling internet access altogether. | 12.3.2013’ |

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the entries for the following 34 persons and one entity are replaced by the following:

Persons

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘1.

AHMADI-MOQADDAM Esmail

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: 1961

Gender: male

Former Senior Advisor for Security Affairs to the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff. Chief of Iran’s National Police from 2005 until early 2015. Also Head of the Iranian Cyber Police (listed) from January 2011 until early 2015. Forces under his command led brutal attacks on peaceful protests and a violent night-time attack on the dormitories of Tehran University on 15 June 2009. Former head of Iran’s Headquarters in support of the Yemeni People.

12.4.2011

4.

FAZLI Ali

Gender: male

Title: Brigadier-General

Former Chief of the Imam Hossein Cadet College (2018-June 2020). Former deputy Commander of the Basij (2009-2018), Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province (until February 2010). The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps is in charge of security in Tehran province and played a key role in the brutal repression of protesters in 2009.

12.4.2011

8.

MOTLAGH Bahram Hosseini

Gender: male

Member of the teaching staff of Imam Hossein University (Guardians of the Revolution). Former Head of the Army Command and General Staff College (DAFOOS). Former Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province. The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps played a key role in organising the repression of protests in 2009.

12.4.2011

11.

RAJABZADEH Azizollah

Gender: male

Commander of the Urban Order Headquarters since 2014. Former Head of Tehran Disaster Mitigation Organisation (2010-2013). As Head of Tehran Police until January 2010, he was responsible for violent police attacks on protesters and students. As Commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in the Greater Tehran, he was the highest ranking accused in the case of abuses in Kahrizak Detention Centre in December 2009.

12.4.2011

15.

DORRI-NADJAFABADI Ghorban-Ali

POB: Najafabad (Iran)

DOB: 3.12.1950

Gender: male

Member of the Assembly of Experts and representative of the Supreme Leader in Markazi (‘Central’) Province and Head of the Supreme Administrative Court. Prosecutor General of Iran until September 2009, as well as former Intelligence Minister under Khatami presidency. As Prosecutor General of Iran, he ordered and supervised the show trials following the first post-election protests, where the accused were denied their rights and access to an attorney.

12.4.2011

19.

JAFARI-DOLATABADI Abbas

POB: Yazd (Iran)

DOB: 1953

Gender: male

Advisor to the Supreme Disciplinary Court of judges since 29 April 2019. Former Prosecutor General of Tehran (August 2009-April 2019). Dolatabadi’s office indicted a large number of protesters, including individuals who took part in the December 2009 Ashura Day protests. He ordered the closure of Karroubi’s office in September 2009 and the arrest of several reformist politicians, and he banned two reformist political parties in June 2010. His office charged protesters with ‘Muharebeh’, or ‘enmity against God’, which carries the death penalty, and denied due process to those facing the death penalty. His office also targeted and arrested reformists, human rights activists and members of the media, as part of a broad crackdown on the political opposition.

In October 2018 he announced to the media that four detained Iranian environmental activists were to be charged with ‘sowing corruption on earth’, a charge which carries the death penalty.

12.4.2011

21.

MOHSENI-EJEI Gholam-Hossein

POB: Ejiyeh (Iran)

DOB: circa 1956

Gender: male

Member of the Expediency Council. Prosecutor General of Iran from September 2009 until 2014. Formerly Deputy Head and spokesperson of the Judiciary. Former Intelligence Minister during the 2009 elections. While he was Intelligence Minister during the 2009 election, intelligence agents under his command were responsible for detention, torture and extraction of false confessions under pressure from hundreds of activists, journalists, dissidents and reformist politicians. In addition, political figures were coerced into making false confessions under unbearable interrogation, which included torture, abuse, blackmail and the threatening of family members.

12.4.2011

22.

MORTAZAVI Said

POB: Meybod, Yazd (Iran)

DOB: 1967

Gender: male

Head of the Welfare System from 2011 to 2013. Prosecutor General of Tehran until August 2009. As Prosecutor General of Tehran, he issued a blanket order used for the detention of hundreds of activists, journalists and students. In January 2010 a parliamentary investigation held him directly responsible for the detention of three prisoners who subsequently died in custody. He was suspended from office in August 2010 after an investigation by the Iranian judiciary into his role in the deaths of the three men detained on his orders following the election.

In November 2014, his role in the deaths of detainees was officially recognised by the Iranian authorities. He was acquitted by an Iranian Court on 19 August 2015, on charges connected to the torture and deaths of three young men at the Kahrizak detention centre in 2009. Sentenced to prison in 2017 and released in September 2019.

12.4.2011

27.

ZARGAR Ahmad

Gender: male

Judge at the Supreme Court and Chief of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Head of the ‘Organization for the Preservation of Morality’. Former judge at the 2nd Branch of the Special Economic Corruption Court. Former judge, Tehran Appeals Court, Branch 36.

He confirmed long-term jail warrants and death warrants against protesters.

12.4.2011

33.

ABBASZADEH-MESHKINI Mahmoud

Gender: male

Member of Parliament since February 2020. Former Advisor to Iran’s High Council for Human Rights (until 2019). Former secretary of the High Council for Human Rights. Former Governor of Ilam Province. Former Political Director of the Interior Ministry. As Head of the Article 10 Committee of the Law on Activities of Political Parties and Groups, he was in charge of authorising demonstrations and other public events and registering political parties.

In 2010, he suspended the activities of two reformist political parties linked to Mousavi – the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mujahedeen Organisation. From 2009 onwards he has consistently and continuously prohibited all non-governmental gatherings, therefore denying a constitutional right to protest and leading to many arrests of peaceful demonstrators in contravention of the right to freedom of assembly.

In 2009 he also denied the opposition a permit for a ceremony to mourn people killed in protests over the Presidential elections.

10.10.2011

34.

AKBARSHAHI Ali-Reza

Gender: male

Former Director-General of Iran’s Drug Control Headquarters (a.k.a. Anti-Narcotics Headquarters). Former Commander of Tehran Police. Under his leadership, the police force was responsible for the use of extrajudicial force on suspects during arrest and pre-trial detention. The Tehran police were also implicated in raids on Tehran university dorms in June 2009 when, according to an Iranian Majlis commission, more than 100 students were injured by the police and Basiji. Until 2018, head of the railway police.

10.10.2011

36.

AVAEE Seyyed Ali-Reza (a.k.a. AVAEE Seyyed Alireza, AVAIE Alireza)

POB: Dezful (Iran)

DOB: 20.5.1956

Gender: male

Minister of Justice. Former Director of the special investigations office. Until July 2016 Deputy Minister of the Interior and Head of the Public Register. Advisor to the Disciplinary Court for Judges since April 2014. Former President of the Tehran Judiciary. As President of the Tehran Judiciary he has been responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and a high number of executions.

10.10.2011

39.

GANJI Mostafa Barzegar

Gender: male

General Director of Inspection Supervision and Performance Evaluation of Courts since June 2020. Former Prosecutor General of Qom (2008-2017) and former Head of the Directorate-General for prisons. He was responsible for the arbitrary detention and maltreatment of dozens of offenders in Qom. He was complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to the excessive and increasing use of the death penalty and a sharp increase in executions in 2009/2010.

10.10.2011

40.

HABIBI Mohammad Reza

Gender: male

Chief Justice of Isfahan. Former Attorney General of Isfahan. Former Head of the Ministry of Justice office in Yazd. Former Deputy Prosecutor of Isfahan. Complicit in proceedings denying defendants a fair trial – such as Abdollah Fathi, executed in May 2011 after his right to be heard and mental health issues were ignored by Habibi during his trial in March 2010. He was, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right to due process, contributing to a sharp increase in executions in 2011.

10.10.2011

41.

HEJAZI Mohammad

POB: Ispahan (Iran)

DOB: 1956

Gender: male

Deputy Commander of IRGC’s Quds Force since 2020 as a result of the reorganisation of its chain of command following the killing of General Qasem Soleimani. As IRGC-General he has played a key role in intimidating and threatening Iran’s ‘enemies’. Former Head of the IRGC’s Sarollah Corps in Tehran, and former Head of the Basij Forces, he played a central role in the post-election crackdown on protesters in 2009.

10.10.2011

44.

JAZAYERI Massoud

Gender: male

Title: Brigadier-General

Cultural advisor to the Joint Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces since April 2018. Within the joint military staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Brigadier-General Massoud Jazayeri was the Deputy Chief of Staff for cultural and media affairs (a.k.a. State Defence Publicity HQ). He actively collaborated in the repression of 2009 protests as Deputy Chief of Staff. He warned in a Kayhan interview that many protesters inside and outside Iran had been identified and would be dealt with at the right time.

He has openly called for the suppression of foreign mass media outlets and the Iranian opposition. In 2010, he asked the government to pass tougher laws against Iranians who cooperate with foreign media sources.

10.10.2011

45.

JOKAR Mohammad Saleh

POB: Yazd (Iran)

DOB: 1957

Gender: male

Member of Parliament for the Province of Yazd. Former Deputy for Parliamentary Affairs of the Revolutionary Guards. From 2011 to 2016, parliamentary deputy for the Province of Yazd and Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy. Former Commander of Student Basij Forces. In this role, he was actively involved in suppressing protests and indoctrinating children and young people with a view to continuing suppression of free speech and dissent. As Member of the Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy, he publically supported the suppression of opposition to the government.

10.10.2011

46.

KAMALIAN Behrouz (a.k.a. Hackers Brain, Behrooz_Ice)

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: 1983

Gender: male

Head of the ‘Ashiyaneh’ cyber group linked with the Iranian regime. The ‘Ashiyaneh’ Digital Security, founded by Behrouz Kamalian, is responsible for intensive cyber attacks both on domestic opponents and reformists and foreign institutions. Kamalian’s ‘Ashiyaneh’ organisation’s work has assisted the regime’s crackdown against the opposition, which has involved numerous serious human rights violations in 2009. Both Kamalian and the ‘Ashiyaneh’ cyber group have continued their activities until at least January 2020.

10.10.2011

47.

KHALILOLLAHI Moussa (a.k.a. KHALILOLLAHI Mousa, ELAHI Mousa Khalil)

POB: Tabriz (Iran)

DOB: 1963

Gender: male

Prosecutor of Tabriz from 2010 to 2019. He was involved in Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s case and is complicit in grave violations of the right to due process.

10.10.2011

48.

MAHSOULI Sadeq (a.k.a. MAHSULI Sadeq)

POB: Oroumieh (Iran)

DOB: 1959/1960

Gender: male

Deputy Secretary-General of the Paydari Front (Front of Islamic Stability). Former Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former member of the Expediency Council and former Deputy Chief of the Perseverance Front. Minister of Welfare and Social Security between 2009 and 2011. Minister of the Interior until August 2009. As Minister of the Interior, Mahsouli had authority over all police forces, interior ministry security agents, and plain-clothes agents. The forces under his direction were responsible for attacks on the dormitories of Tehran University on 14 June 2009 and the torture of students in the basement of the Ministry (the notorious basement level 4). Other protestors were severely abused at the Kahrizak Detention Centre, which was operated by police under Mahsouli’s control.

10.10.2011

53.

TALA Hossein (a.k.a. TALA Hosseyn)

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: 1969

Gender: male

Mayor of Eslamshahr. Former Iranian MP. Former Governor-General (‘Farmandar’) of Tehran Province until September 2010, he was responsible for the intervention of police forces and therefore for the repression of demonstrations. He received a prize in December 2010 for his role in the post-election repression.

10.10.2011

54.

TAMADDON Morteza (a.k.a. TAMADON Morteza)

POB: Shahr Kord-Isfahan (Iran)

DOB: 1959

Gender: male

Former Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council. Former IRGC Governor-General of Tehran Province. In his capacity as Governor and Head of Tehran provincial Public Security Council, he bore overall responsibility for all repressive activities undertaken by the IRGC in Tehran Province, including cracking down on political protests since June 2009. Currently board member at Khajeh Nasireddin Tusi University of Technology.

10.10.2011

60.

HOSSEINI Dr Mohammad (a.k.a. HOSSEYNI Dr Seyyed Mohammad; Seyed, Sayyed and Sayyid)

POB: Rafsanjan, Kerman (Iran)

DOB: 23.7.1961

Gender: male

Advisor to Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and spokesperson for YEKTA, a hardline political faction. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance (2009-2013). Ex-IRGC, he was complicit in the repression of journalists.

10.10.2011

63.

TAGHIPOUR Reza

POB: Maragheh (Iran)

DOB: 1957

Gender: male

Member of the 11th Iranian parliament (Tehran constituency). Member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former Member of the City Council of Teheran. Former Minister for Information and Communications (2009-2012).

As Minister for Information, he was one of the top officials in charge of censorship and control of internet activities and also all types of communications (in particular mobile phones). During interrogations of political detainees, the interrogators make use of the detainees’ personal data, mail and communications. On several occasions following the 2009 presidential election and during street demonstrations, mobile lines and text messaging were blocked, satellite TV channels were jammed and the internet locally suspended or at least slowed down.

23.3.2012

65.

LARIJANI Sadeq

POB: Najaf (Iraq)

DOB: 1960 or August 1961

Gender: male

Named Head of the Expediency Council on 29 December 2018. Former Head of the Judiciary (2009-2019). The Head of the Judiciary is required to consent to and sign off every qisas (retribution), hodoud (crimes against God) and ta’zirat (crimes against the state) punishment. This includes sentences carrying the death penalty, floggings and amputations. In this regard, he has personally signed off numerous death penalty sentences, contravening international standards, including stoning, executions by suspension strangulation, execution of juveniles, and public executions such as those where prisoners have been hanged from bridges in front of crowds of thousands. Therefore, he has contributed to a high number of executions. He has also permitted corporal punishment sentences such as amputations and the dripping of acid into the eyes of the convicted. Since Sadeq Larijani took office, arbitrary arrests of political prisoners, human rights defenders and minorities have increased markedly. Sadeq Larijani also bears responsibility for systemic failures in the Iranian judicial process with respect to the right to a fair trial.

23.3.2012

66.

MIRHEJAZI Ali

Gender: male

Part of the Supreme Leader’s inner circle, one of those responsible for planning the suppression of protests, which has been implemented since 2009, and associated with those responsible for supressing the protests.

He was also responsible for planning the suppression of public unrest in December 2017/2018 and November 2019.

23.3.2012

67.

SAEEDI Ali

Gender: male

Head of the Supreme Leader’s political ideology bureau. Former representative of the Supreme Leader for the Pasdaran (1995-2020) after spending his whole career within the institution of the military, and specifically in the Pasdaran intelligence service. This official role made him the key figure in the transmission of orders emanating from the Office of the Supreme Leader to the Pasdaran’s repression apparatus.

23.3.2012

69.

MORTAZAVI Seyyed Solat

POB: Farsan, Tchar Mahal-o-Bakhtiari (South) – (Iran)

DOB: 1967

Gender: male

Since 16 September 2019, head of the real estate branch of the Mostazafan Foundation, which is directly run by Supreme Leader Khamenei. Until November 2019, Director of the Tehran branch of the Foundation Astan Qods Razavi. Former mayor of the second largest city of Iran, Mashhad, where public executions regularly happen. Former Deputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs, appointed in 2009. In this capacity, he was responsible for directing repression of persons who spoke up in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression. Later appointed as Head of the Iranian Election Committee for the parliamentarian elections in 2012 and for the presidential elections in 2013.

23.3.2012

73.

FARHADI Ali

Gender: male

Deputy Head of Inspectorate of Legal Affairs and Public Inspection of the Ministry of Justice of Tehran. Former prosecutor of Karaj. Responsible for grave violations of human rights, including prosecuting trials in which the death penalty was handed down. There were a high number of executions in Karaj region during his time as prosecutor.

23.3.2012

79.

RASHIDI AGHDAM Ali Ashraf

Gender: male

Former head of Evin Prison (2012-2015). During his tenure, conditions in the prison deteriorated and reports referenced intensified ill-treatment of prisoners. In October 2012, nine female prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of the violation of their rights and violent treatment by prison guards.

12.3.2013

82.

SARAFRAZ Mohammad (Dr.) (a.k.a. Haj-agha Sarafraz)

POB: Tehran (Iran)

DOB: circa 1963

Place of residence: Tehran

Gender: male

Former member of the Supreme Cyberspace Council. Former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) (2014-2016). Former Head of IRIB World Service and Press TV, responsible for all programming decisions. Closely associated with the state security apparatus. Under his direction, Press TV, along with IRIB, has worked with the Iranian security services and prosecutors to broadcast forced confessions of detainees, including that of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari, in the weekly programme ‘Iran Today’. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting Bahari’s confession in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. Sarafraz is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial.

12.3.2013

84.

EMADI Hamid Reza (a.k.a. Hamidreza Emadi)

POB: Hamedan (Iran)

DOB: circa 1973

Place of residence: Tehran

Place of work: Press TV HQ, Tehran

Gender: male

Press TV Newsroom Director. Former Press TV Senior Producer.

Responsible for producing and broadcasting the forced confessions of detainees, including journalists, political activists and persons belonging to Kurdish and Arab minorities, violating internationally recognised rights to a fair trial and due process. Independent broadcast regulator OFCOM fined Press TV in the UK GBP 100 000 for broadcasting the forced confession of Iranian-Canadian journalist and film-maker Maziar Bahari in 2011, which was filmed in prison whilst Bahari was under duress. NGOs have reported further instances of forced televised confessions by Press TV. Emadi is therefore associated with violating the right to due process and fair trial.

12.3.2013

86.

MUSAVI-TABAR Seyyed Reza

POB: Jahrom (Iran)

DOB: 1964

Gender: male

Former head of the Revolutionary Prosecution of Shiraz. Responsible for illegal arrests and ill treatment of political activists, journalists, human rights defenders, Baha’is and prisoners of conscience, who were harassed, tortured, interrogated and denied access to lawyers and due process. Musavi-Tabar signed judicial orders in the notorious No 100 Detention Centre (a male prison), including an order to detain female Baha’i prisoner Raha Sabet for three years in solitary confinement.

12.3.2013

87.

KHORAMABADI Abdolsamad

Gender: male

Deputy Director for Judicial Oversight (since 13 October 2018). Former head of the ‘Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content’, a governmental organisation in charge of online censorship and cyber crime. Under his leadership, the Commission defined ‘cyber crime’ by a number of vague categories that criminalise creation and publication of content deemed inappropriate by the regime. He was responsible for repression and the blocking of numerous opposition sites, electronic newspapers, blogs, sites of human rights NGOs and of Google and Gmail since September 2012. He and the Commission actively contributed to the death in detention of the blogger Sattar Beheshti in November 2012. Thus the Commission he was heading is directly responsible for systemic violations of human rights, in particular by banning and filtering websites to the general public, and occasionally disabling internet access altogether.

12.3.2013’

Entities

| | Name | Identifying information | Reasons | Date of listing |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ‘1. | Cyber Police | Location: Tehran (Iran)
  Website:http://www.cyberpolice.ir | The Iranian Cyber Police, founded in January 2011, is a unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, headed by Vahid Majid. From the time of its inception until early 2015 it was headed by Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam (listed). Ahmadi-Moqaddam underlined that the Cyber Police would take on anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who used internet-based social networks in 2009 to trigger protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In January 2012, the Cyber Police issued new guidelines for internet cafés, requiring users to provide personal information that would be kept by café owners for six months, as well as a record of the websites they visited. The rules also require café owners to install closed-circuit television cameras and maintain the recordings for six months. These new rules may create a logbook that authorities can use to track down activists or whoever is deemed a threat to national security.
  In June 2012, Iranian media reported that the Cyber Police would be launching a crackdown on virtual private networks (VPNs). On 30 October 2012, the Cyber Police arrested the blogger Sattar Beheshti without a warrant for ‘actions against national security on social networks and Facebook’. Beheshti had criticised the Iranian government in his blog. Beheshti was found dead in his prison cell on 3 November 2012, and is believed to have been tortured to death by the Cyber Police authorities. The Cyber Police is responsible for many arrests of Telegram Group Administrators in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019. | 12.3.2013’ |

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘1.

Cyber Police

Location: Tehran (Iran)

Website:http://www.cyberpolice.ir

The Iranian Cyber Police, founded in January 2011, is a unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, headed by Vahid Majid. From the time of its inception until early 2015 it was headed by Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam (listed). Ahmadi-Moqaddam underlined that the Cyber Police would take on anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who used internet-based social networks in 2009 to trigger protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In January 2012, the Cyber Police issued new guidelines for internet cafés, requiring users to provide personal information that would be kept by café owners for six months, as well as a record of the websites they visited. The rules also require café owners to install closed-circuit television cameras and maintain the recordings for six months. These new rules may create a logbook that authorities can use to track down activists or whoever is deemed a threat to national security.

In June 2012, Iranian media reported that the Cyber Police would be launching a crackdown on virtual private networks (VPNs). On 30 October 2012, the Cyber Police arrested the blogger Sattar Beheshti without a warrant for ‘actions against national security on social networks and Facebook’. Beheshti had criticised the Iranian government in his blog. Beheshti was found dead in his prison cell on 3 November 2012, and is believed to have been tortured to death by the Cyber Police authorities. The Cyber Police is responsible for many arrests of Telegram Group Administrators in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019.

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