2000/412/EC: Commission Decision of 15 June 2000 recognising in principle the completeness of the dossier submitted for detailed examination with a view to the possible inclusion of IKF 916 (cyazofamid) in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (notified under document number C(2000) 1547)
Date: 2000-06-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: chemical product, marketing standard, plant health control, plant health product, toxic substance, toxicology

L 155/62

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

28.6.2000

COMMISSION DECISION

of 15 June 2000

recognising in principle the completeness of the dossier submitted for detailed examination with a
view to the possible inclusion of IKF 916 (cyazofamid) in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC
concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market

(notified under document number C(2000) 1547)

(2000/412/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(7)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July
1991 concerning the placing of plant-protection products on
the market (1), as last amended by Commission Directive 1999/
80/EC (2), and in particular Article 6(3) thereof,

Whereas:

Directive 91/414/EEC (hereinafter referred to as ‘the
Directive’) provides for the compilation of a Community
list of active substance authorised for use in plant
protection products.

Such decision does not prejudice that further data or
information may be requested from the applicant in
order to clarify certain points in the dossier. The request
by the rapporteur Member State for the submission of
further data necessary to clarify the dossier shall not
affect the time limit for the submission of the report
referred to under recital 9.

The Member States and the Commission agree that
France will carry out a detailed examination of
the
dossier on IKF 916 (cyazofamid).

France will report the conclusions of their examinations
accompanied by any recommendations on the inclusion
or non-inclusion and any conditions relating thereto as
soon as possible and at the latest within a period of one
year from the date of publication of this Decision.

(8)

(9)

Ishira Sangyo Kaisha Ltd submitted a dossier on the
active substance IKF 916 (cyazofamid) to the French
authorities on 16 December 1999.

(10)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on Plant Health,

The said authorities informed the Commission of the
results of an initial examination of the dossier to ensure
that it provides all the information laid down in Annex
II and,
least one plant protection product
containing the active substance concerned, in Annex III
to the Directive. Subsequently,
in accordance with
Article 6(2), the applicant submitted the dossier to the
Commission and other Member States.

for at

The dossier on IKF 916 (cyazofamid) was referred to
the Standing Committee on Plant Health on 20
March 2000.

Article 6(3) of the Directive requires official confirma-
tion at Community level that each dossier fulfils the
requirements on information laid down in Annex II and,
for at least one plant protection product containing the
active substance concerned, in Annex III to the Directive.

Such confirmation is necessary to permit a detailed
examination of the dossier and to allow Member States
to grant provisional authorisation for plant protection
products containing the active substance concerned
while complying with the conditions laid down in
Article 8(1) of the Directive and, in particular, the condi-
tion relating to the detailed assessment of the active
substance and the plant protection product in the light
of the requirements laid down by the Directive.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The following dossier satisfies in principle the information
requirements laid down in Annex II and, for at least one plant
protection product containing the active substance concerned,
in Annex III to the Directive, taking account of the intended
uses:

the dossier submitted by Ishira Sangyo Kaisha Ltd to the
Commission and the Member States with a view to the
inclusion of IKF 916 (cyazofamid) as an active substance in
to Directive 91/414/EEC and referred to the
Annex I
Standing Committee on Plant Health on 20 March 2000.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 15 June 2000.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(1) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 210, 10.8.1999, p. 13.