COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/801

of 20 May 2022

amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 to update the list of active substances approved or deemed to have been approved under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(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 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 (1), and in particular Article 78(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Part A of the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (2) lists the active substances, which were initially included in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC (3) and are deemed to have been approved under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. It originally listed 354 active substances.

(2) For 68 of the active substances listed in Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, applications for renewal were either not submitted or were submitted but withdrawn, with the consequence that the approval periods for these active substances have expired.

(3) Part B of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 lists active substances approved under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. For 7 of those active substances, applications for renewal were either not submitted three years before the expiry of their respective approvals or were submitted but withdrawn, with the consequence that the approval periods for these active substances have expired.

(4) All those substances that are no longer approved or deemed to have been approved following the expiry of an approval period listed for the substances concerned in either Part A or B of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011should be deleted from the Parts A and B, respectively, of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 for the sake of clarity and transparency.

(5) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6) 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 The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 20 May 2022. For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 of 25 May 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the list of approved active substances (OJ L 153, 11.6.2011, p. 1).

(3) Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1).