Commission Regulation (EC) No 703/2001 of 6 April 2001 laying down the active substances of plant protection products to be assessed in the second stage of the work programme referred to in Article 8(2) of Council Directive 91/414/EEC and revising the list of Member States designated as rapporteurs for those substances

Commission Regulation (EC) No 703/2001
of 6 April 2001
laying down the active substances of plant protection products to be assessed in the second stage of the work programme referred to in Article 8(2) of Council Directive 91/414/EEC and revising the list of Member States designated as rapporteurs for those substances
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market(1), as last amended by Commission Directive 2001/21/EC(2),
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 451/2000 of 28 February 2000 laying down the detailed rules for the implementation of the second and third stages of the work programme referred to in Article 8(2) of Directive 91/414/EEC(3), and in particular Article 5(2) and (6) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Producers wishing to secure the inclusion in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC of active substances which were already on the market on 26 July 1993 and which were listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 451/2000 were required to notify the relevant rapporteur Member State of this wish by 31 August 2000 at the latest.
(2) Rapporteur Member States have reported to the Commission on whether such notifications satisfied the criteria for admissibility referred to in Part 1 of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 451/2000, as required by Article 5(1) of that Regulation.
(3) The Commission in conjunction with the Standing Committee on Plant Health has further reviewed those notifications in order to establish whether they were received by rapporteur Member States before the deadline and whether they satisfy the criteria for admissibility.
(4) A decision should therefore be taken determining the active substances to be evaluated in the framework of the Regulation and the persons entitled to act as notifiers for those substances.
(5) The designation of Member States as rapporteurs for the second stage of the work programme provided for in Article 8(2) of Directive 91/414/EEC was set out in Article 4(1) and Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 451/2000. In view of certain inbalances that have appeared following examination of the requests for inclusion in Annex I, the role of rapporteur in respect of certain active substances should be transferred to a different Member State.
(6) In order to ensure that the review required under Article 8(2) of Directive 91/414/EEC can be completed in a timely manner, a time limit should also be set for the submission to the rapporteur Member State of the dossiers and other technical or scientific information, required pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 451/2000.
(7) The names and addresses of the producers who have presented a notification satisfying the above mentioned requirements should be published in order to ensure that contacts can be made for presenting collective dossiers.
(8) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health,