Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2189 of 3 September 2024 granting a Union authorisation for the single biocidal product ClearKlens wipes based on IPA in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Date: 2024-09-03
Institutions: Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Subjects: biocide, chemical product, decontamination, market approval








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2024/2189


4.9.2024







            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2024/2189
of 3 September 2024
         
granting a Union authorisation for the single biocidal product ‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’ in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(Text with EEA relevance)


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products (1), and in particular Article 44(5), first subparagraph, thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


On 10 March 2020, Diversey Europe Operations B.V. submitted to the European Chemicals Agency (‘the Agency’) an application in accordance with Article 43(1) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 for Union authorisation of a single biocidal product named ‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’ of product-type 2, as described in Annex V to that Regulation, providing written confirmation that the competent authority of the Netherlands had agreed to evaluate the application. The application was recorded under case number BC-XF057810-33 in the Register for Biocidal Products.












(2)


‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’ contains propan-2-ol as the active substance included in the Union list of approved active substances referred to in Article 9(2) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 for product-type 2.












(3)


On 17 July 2023, the evaluating competent authority submitted, in accordance with Article 44(1) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, an assessment report and the conclusions of its evaluation to the Agency.












(4)


On 14 December 2023, the Agency submitted to the Commission its opinion (2), the draft summary of the biocidal product characteristics (‘SPC’) of ‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’ and the final assessment report on the single biocidal product, in accordance with Article 44(3) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012.












(5)


The opinion concludes that ‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’ is a single biocidal product within the meaning of Article 3(1), point (r), of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, that it is eligible for Union authorisation in accordance with Article 42(1) of that Regulation and that, subject to compliance with the draft SPC, it meets the conditions laid down in Article 19(1) of that Regulation.












(6)


On 3 January 2024, the Agency transmitted to the Commission the draft SPC in all the official languages of the Union in accordance with Article 44(4) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012.












(7)


The Commission concurs with the opinion of the Agency and considers it therefore appropriate to grant a Union authorisation for ‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’.












(8)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Biocidal Products,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
A Union authorisation with authorisation number EU-0032009-0000 is granted to Diversey Europe Operations B.V. for the making available on the market and use of the single biocidal product ‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’ in accordance with the summary of the biocidal product characteristics set out in the Annex.
The Union authorisation is valid from 24 September 2024 to 31 August 2034.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 3 September 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 167, 27.6.2012, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/528/oj


(2)  ECHA opinion of 22 November 2023 on the Union authorisation of the single biocidal product ‘ClearKlens wipes based on IPA’ (ECHA/BPC/402/2023), https://echa.europa.eu/opinions-on-union-authorisation



ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2189/oj
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