Commission Directive 2007/31/EC of 31 May 2007 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC as regards the specific provisions set for the use of the active substance fosthiazate (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-05-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: exchange of information, insecticide, marketing standard, pharmaceutical product, plant health control, plant health legislation, plant health product

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Official Journal of the European Union

1.6.2007

DIRECTIVES

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2007/31/EC

of 31 May 2007

amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC as regards the specific provisions set for the use of the
active substance fosthiazate

(Text with EEA relevance)

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 the second indent of the second
subparagraph of Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

By Commission Directive 2003/84/EC (2) fosthiazate was
included as active substance in Annex I
to Directive
91/414/EEC.

(2) When applying for the inclusion of fosthiazate its manu-
facturer ISK Biosciences Europe S.A. submitted data on
uses to control nematodes which supported the overall
conclusion that it may be expected that plant protection
the safety
products containing fosthiazate will
requirements laid down in Article 5(1)(a) and (b) of
Directive
fosthiazate was
included in Annex I to that Directive with the specific
provisions that Member States may only authorise uses
as nematicide.

91/414/EEC.

Therefore,

fulfil

(3)

In addition to the control of nematodes in certain agri-
the notifier now has applied for an
cultural uses,
amendment to those specific provisions as regards the
control of
such an
In order
extension of the use, the notifier submitted additional
information.

to support

insects.

(4)

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom evaluated the
information and data submitted by the company. They
informed the Commission in May and November 2006,

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

last amended by

Commission Directive 2007/25/EC (OJ L 106, 24.4.2007, p. 34).
(2) OJ L 247, 30.9.2003, p. 20. Directive as amended by Directive

2004/64/EC (OJ L 125, 28.4.2004, p. 42).

for

the

that

that

requested
they conclude
respectively,
extension of use does not cause any risks in addition
in the specific
to those already taken into account
provisions
to Directive
fosthiazate in Annex I
91/414/EEC and in the Commission review report for
that substance. This is particularly the case since the
extension only concerns the organisms controlled, but
not the application parameters as set out in the specific
provisions of Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC.

Therefore it is justified to modify the specific provisions
for fosthiazate.

is

It
therefore
91/414/EEC accordingly.

appropriate

to

amend Directive

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

in this Directive are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC is amended as set out in the
Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

Member States shall adopt and publish by 1 September 2007 at
the latest the laws, regulations and administrative provisions
necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith
communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions
and a correlation table between those provisions and this
Directive.

They shall apply those provisions from 2 September 2007.

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When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 31 May 2007.

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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