2000/816/EC: Commission Decision of 27 December 2000 concerning the non-inclusion of quintozene in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC and the withdrawal of authorisations for plant-protection products containing this active substance (notified under document number C(2000) 4136) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2000-12-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: dangerous substance, marketing, marketing standard, pharmaceutical product, plant health product, withdrawal from the market

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 27 December 2000

concerning the non-inclusion of quintozene in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC and the
withdrawal of authorisations for plant-protection products containing this active substance

(notified under document number C(2000) 4136)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2000/816/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

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 2000/
68/EC (2), and in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article
8(2) thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3600/92 of
11 December 1992 laying down the detailed rules for the
implementation of the first stage of the programme of work
referred to in Article 8(2) of Council Directive 91/414/EEC
concerning the placing of plant protection products on the
market (3), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
2266/2000 (4), and in particular Article 7(3)(b) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 8(2) of Directive 91/414/EEC provided for the
Commission to carry out a programme of work for the
examination of
the active substances used in plant-
protection products which were already on the market
on 15 July 1993. Detailed rules for the carrying out of
this programme were established in Commission Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3600/92.

(1) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 276, 28.10.2000, p. 41.
(3) OJ L 366, 15.12.1992, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 259, 13.10.2000, p. 27.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 933/94 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2230/95 (6) has desig-
nated the active substances which should be assessed in
the framework of Regulation (EEC) No 3600/92, desig-
nated a Member State to act as rapporteur in respect of
the assessment of each substance and identified the
producers of each active substance who submitted a
notification in due time in accordance with Article 4(2)
of Regulation (EEC) No 3600/92.

Quintozene is one of the 90 active substances desig-
nated in Regulation (EC) No 933/94.

In accordance with Article 7(1)(c) of Regulation (EEC)
No 3600/92, Greece, being the designated rapporteur
Member State, submitted on 1 December 1997 to the
Commission the report of its assessment of the informa-
tion submitted by the notifiers in accordance with the
provisions of Article 6(1) of this Regulation.

On receipt of the report of the rapporteur Member State,
the Commission undertook consultations with experts
of the Member States as well as with the main notifier
(Uniroyal Chemicals) as provided for in Article 7(3) of
Regulation (EEC) No 3600/92.

The assessment report prepared by Greece has been
reviewed by the Member States and the Commission
within the Standing Committee on Plant Health. This
review was finalised on 13 July 2000 in the format of
in
the Commission review report
accordance with Article 7(6) of Regulation (EEC) No
3600/92.

for quintozene,

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(5) OJ L 107, 28.4.1994, p. 8.
(6) OJ L 225, 22.9.1995, p. 1.

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(7)

(8)

the information
Assessments made on the basis of
submitted have not demonstrated that
it may be
expected that, under the proposed conditions of use,
plant-protection products containing quintozene satisfy
in general the requirements laid down in Article 5(1)(a)
in particular with
and (b) of Directive 91/414/EEC,
regard to the safety of operators and consumers poten-
tially exposed to quintozene and with regard to the
persistence of the substance in the environment and its
possible impact on non-target organisms.

The main notifier informed the Commission and the
rapporteur Member State that it no longer wished to
participate in the programme of work for this active
substance, and therefore further information will not be
submitted.

(9)

Therefore it
substance in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC.

is not possible to include this active

(10) Any period of grace for disposal, storage, placing on the
market and use of existing stocks of plant-protection
products containing quintozene allowed by Member
States, in accordance with the provisions of Article 4(6)
of Directive 91/414/EEC should be limited to a period
no longer than 18 months to allow existing stocks to be
used in no more than one further growing season.

(11)

(12)

This Decision does not prejudice any action the
Commission may undertake at a later stage for this
active substance within the framework of Council
Directive 79/117/EEC (1).

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Quintozene is not included as active substance in Annex I to
Directive 91/414/EEC.

Member States shall ensure that:

Article 2

1. authorisations

for plant-protection products containing
quintozene are withdrawn within a period of six months
from the date of adoption of the present Decision;

2. from the date of adoption of the present Decision, no
for plant-protection products containing
authorisations
quintozene will be granted or renewed under the derogation
provided for in Article 8(2) of Directive 91/414/EEC.

Article 3

Any period of grace granted by a Member State in accordance
with the provisions of Article 4(6) of Directive 91/414/EEC,
shall be as short as possible and not longer than 18 months
from the date of adoption of the present Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 27 December 2000.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 33, 8.2.1979, p. 36.