2008/278/EC: Commission Decision of 26 March 2008 amending Decision 2006/589/EC as regards aviglycine HCl (notified under document number C(2008) 1071) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-03-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: administrative formalities, marketing standard, pharmaceutical product, plant health control, plant health product

29.3.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 87/15

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 March 2008

amending Decision 2006/589/EC as regards aviglycine HCl

(notified under document number C(2008) 1071)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/278/EC)

submit further data. As a result, it is clear that the dossier
will be not completed and that it will thus be impossible
for the rapporteur Member State to draft an assessment
report concerning aviglycine HCl and distribute it to the
Commission, the European Food Safety Authority and
the other Member States. The possibility of granting
provisional
be
withdrawn.

authorisations

therefore

should

No period of grace for disposal, storage, placing in the
market and use of existing stocks of plant protection
products containing aviglycine HCl
is necessary as no
Member State has granted a provisional authorisation
for this active substance.

Decision 2006/589/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2006/589/EC is replaced by the Annex
to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done in Brussels, 26 March 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

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 Article 6(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

In accordance with Article 6(2) of Directive 91/414/EEC
the United Kingdom received on 27 October 2004 an
application from Valent Bioscience, for the inclusion of
the active substance aviglycine HCl
to
Directive 91/414/EEC.

in Annex I

‘complete’,

By Commission Decision 2006/589/EC (2)
it was
confirmed that, on preliminary examination, the dossier
it could be considered as
was
and information
satisfying,
the data
to Directive
requirements of Annex II and Annex III
91/414/EEC.

in that
in principle,

Member States were thereby given the possibility to grant
provisional authorisations for plant protection products
containing
accordance with
Article 8(1) of Directive 91/414/EEC. No Member State
has used this possibility.

aviglycine HCl,

in

The United Kingdom, as rapporteur Member State, has
indicated to the Commission that a detailed examination
of the dossier revealed that several additional
items of
data were still required under Annexes II and III of
Directive 91/414/EEC. Accordingly, the dossier can no
longer be considered to be complete.

The notifier for aviglycine HCl
informed the United
Kingdom and the Commission of its intention not to
support the ongoing evaluation any further and not to

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

last amended by
Commission Directive 2007/76/EC (OJ L 337, 21.12.2007, p. 100).

(2) OJ L 240, 2.9.2006, p. 9.

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ANNEX

ACTIVE SUBSTANCES CONCERNED BY THIS DECISION

No

1

2

Common Name,
CIPAC Identification Number

Applicant

Date of application

Rapporteur Member
State

Mandipropamid
CIPAC-No: not yet allocated

Meptyldinocap
CIPAC-No: not yet allocated

Syngenta AG

13.12.2005

Dow AgroSciences

12.8.2005

AT

UK