2005/487/EC: Commission Decision of 4 July 2005 concerning the non-inclusion of triazamate in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC and the withdrawal of authorisations for plant protection products containing that substance (notified under document number C(2005) 1960)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-07-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: market approval, plant health legislation, plant health product

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 July 2005

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

(notified under document number C(2005) 1960)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/487/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991
concerning the placing of plant protection products on the
market (1), and in particular
fourth subparagraph of
Article 8(2) thereof,

the

(3)

(4)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 8(2) of Directive 91/414/EEC provides that a
Member State may, during a period of 12 years
that Directive, authorise
following the notification of
the placing on the market of plant protection products
containing active substances not listed in Annex I to that
Directive that are already on the market two years after
the date of notification, while those substances are
gradually being examined within the framework of a
programme of work.

Commission Regulations (EC) No 451/2000 (2) and (EC)
No 703/2001 (3)
lay down the detailed rules for the
implementation of the second stage of the programme
of work referred to in Article 8(2) of Directive
91/414/EEC. For
the active substance triazamate the
notifier informed the Commission on 7 July 2004 that
it no longer wished to seek the inclusion of
that
substance in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC. Conse-
quently, that active substance should not be included in
that Annex and Member States should withdraw all

authorisations for plant protection products containing
triazamate.

A period of grace for disposal, storage, placing on the
market and use of existing stocks should be provided to
allow those stocks to be used in one further growing
season.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Triazamate shall not be included as an active substance in
Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC.

Article 2

Member States shall ensure that:

1. authorisations for plant protection products containing tria-

zamate are withdrawn by 4 January 2006;

2. no authorisations for plant protection products containing
triazamate are granted or renewed from the date of publi-
cation.

Article 3

(1) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1. Directive as

last amended by

Commission Directive 2005/34/EC (OJ L 125, 18.5.2005, p. 5).
(2) OJ L 55, 29.2.2000, p. 25. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1044/2003 (OJ L 151, 19.6.2003, p. 32).

(3) OJ L 98, 7.4.2001, p. 6.

Any period of grace granted by Member States under Article
4(6) of Directive 91/414/EEC, for the disposal, storage, placing
on the market and use of existing stocks shall be as short as
possible and shall expire on 4 January 2007 at the latest.

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 4 July 2005.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission