2008/566/EC: Commission Decision of 1 July 2008 recognising in principle the completeness of the dossiers submitted for detailed examination in view of the possible inclusion of phosphane and thiencarbazone in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC (notified under document number C(2008) 3216) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-07-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: chemical product, market approval, pharmaceutical product, plant health legislation, plant health product

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 1 July 2008

recognising in principle the completeness of the dossiers submitted for detailed examination in
view of the possible inclusion of phosphane and thiencarbazone in Annex I to Council Directive
91/414/EEC

(notified under document number C(2008) 3216)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/566/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 on the market (1),
and in particular Article 6(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(5)

(6)

data

in principle

satisfying
information
the
requirements set out in Annex II and, for at least one
plant protection product containing the active substance
concerned,
to
Directive 91/414/EEC.

the requirements set out

in Annex III

and

This Decision should not prejudice the right of
the
Commission to request the applicant to submit further
data or information in order to clarify certain points in
the dossier.

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

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(1)

(2)

(3)

Directive 91/414/EEC provides for the development of a
Community list of active substances authorised for incor-
poration in plant protection products.

of

for

the

authorities

A dossier
the active substance phosphane was
submitted by S&A Service und Anwendungstechnik
GmbH to
on
11 October 2007 with an application to obtain its
inclusion in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC. For thien-
carbazone a dossier was submitted by Bayer Crop Science
to the authorities of the United Kingdom on 13 April
2007 with an application to obtain its inclusion in
Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC.

the Germany

II

for

set out

in Annex

the dossiers

The authorities of the Germany and the United Kingdom
have indicated to the Commission that, on preliminary
examination,
the active substances
concerned appear to satisfy the data and information
requirements
to Directive
91/414/EEC. The dossiers
submitted appear also to
satisfy the data and information requirements set out in
Annex III to Directive 91/414/EEC in respect of one
plant
active
substance concerned. In accordance with Article 6(2) of
Directive 91/414/EEC,
the dossiers were subsequently
to the Commission and
forwarded by the applicant
other Member States, and were referred to the Standing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health.

containing

protection

product

the

(4)

By this Decision it should be formally confirmed at
the dossiers are considered as
Community level

that

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

last amended by

Commission Directive 2008/45/EC (OJ L 94, 5.4.2008, p. 21).

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Without prejudice to Article 6(4) of Directive 91/414/EEC, the
dossiers concerning the active substances identified in the
Annex to this Decision, which were
submitted to the
Commission and the Member States with a view to obtaining
the inclusion of those substances in Annex I to that Directive,
satisfy in principle the data and information requirements set
out in Annex II to that Directive.

The dossiers also satisfy the data and information requirements
set out in Annex III to that Directive in respect of one plant
protection product containing the active substance, taking into
account the uses proposed.

Article 2

The rapporteur Member State shall pursue the detailed exam-
ination for the dossiers referred to in Article 1 and shall
communicate to the Commission the conclusions of its exam-
ination accompanied by a recommendation on the inclusion or
non-inclusion in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC of the active
substances referred to in Article 1 and any conditions for those
inclusions as soon as possible and at the latest within a period
of one year from the date of publication of this Decision in the
Official Journal of the European Union.

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 1 July 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Active substance concerned by this Decision

Common name, CIPAC
identification number

Phosphane
CIPAC-No: 127

Thiencarbazone
CIPAC-No: 797

Applicant

Date of application

Rapporteur Member State

S&A Service und Anwen-
dungstechnik GmbH

11 October 2007

Bayer Crop Science AG

13 April 2007

DE

UK