COMMISSION REGUL ATION (EU) 2018/1049 
of 25 July 2018 
amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council 
(Text with EEA relevance) 
THE EUR OPEAN COMMISSION, 
Having regar d 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 Febr uary 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 4 thereof, 
Whereas: 
(1)  The products of plant and animal origin to which the maximum residue levels of pesticides (‘MRLs ’) set by 
Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 apply , subject to the provisions of that Regulation, are listed in Annex I to that 
Regulation. 
(2)  Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 has been replaced by Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/62 (2). 
(3)  Regulation (EU) 2018/62 introduced, inter alia, the commodity ‘radish leav es’ in Part B of Annex I and linke d it 
to the commodity ‘kales ’ in Part A of the same annex. As a consequence the MRLs for kales apply to radish 
leav es too. 
(4)  Recent information suggests that MRLs for kales may not be suitable for radish leaves in all cases and that 
specific residue trials on radish leaves are needed to conf irm the appropr iate MRLs. 
(5)  It is theref ore appropr iate to provid e for a transitional period before the MRLs for kales become applicable to the 
commodity ‘radish leaves’ in order to enable the collecting of the necessar y data. To this end a new footnote (3) 
linked to the commodity ‘radish leav es’ should be inser ted in Part B of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. 
(6)  Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 should theref ore be amended according ly. 
(7)  In order to ensure that there are no unnecessar y trade disrupti ons resulting from the modifi cations for radish 
leav es introduced by Regulation (EU) 2018/62 and to enable the mark eting of products for which the harvest 
season starts in the spring of 2018, this Regulation should become applicable as from 1 Apr il 2018. 
(8)  The measures provi ded for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on 
Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGUL ATION: 
Article 1 
In Part B of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 the follo wing footnote (3) is inser ted and linked to the entr y for 
‘radish leaves’: 
‘(3)  MRLs shall apply to radish leaves as from 1 Januar y 2022’. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day followi ng that of its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Union. 
It shall apply as from 1 Apr il 2018. 26.7.2018 L 189/9 Official Jour nal of the European Union EN     
(1)OJ L 70, 16.3.2005, p. 1. 
(2)Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/62 of 17 Januar y 2018 replacing Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 18, 23.1.2018, p. 1). 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member State s. 
Done at Brussels, 25 July 2018. 
For the Commission 
The President 
Jean-Claude JUNCK ER  26.7.2018 L 189/10 Official Jour nal of the European Union EN