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Document 32013R0767

    Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 767/2013 of 8 August 2013 withdrawing the approval of the active substance bitertanol, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 Text with EEA relevance

    OJ L 214, 9.8.2013, p. 5–6 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2013/767/oj

    Date of document:
    08/08/2013
    Date of effect:
    29/08/2013; Entry into force Date pub. +20 See Art 6
    Date of end of validity:
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    Author:
    European Commission
    Responsible body:
    Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety
    Form:
    Implementing regulation
    Additional information:
    EEA relevance
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    Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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    9.8.2013   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    L 214/5

    COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 767/2013

    of 8 August 2013

    withdrawing the approval of the active substance bitertanol, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011

    (Text with EEA relevance)

    THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

    Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC (1), and in particular the second alternative of Article 21(3) and Article 78(2) thereof,

    Whereas:

    (1)

    Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1278/2011 (2) approved bitertanol as active substance in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, with the condition that the applicant at whose request bitertanol has been approved provides further confirmatory information on the toxicological relevance of the impurities BUE 1662, thus referred to for confidentiality reasons, and 3-chlorophenoxy compound by 30 June 2012.

    (2)

    The applicant at whose request bitertanol had been approved did not submit any confirmatory information by the deadline of 30 June 2012. By letter of 11 December 2011 it had already informed the Commission of its intention not to submit such information.

    (3)

    Consequently, it is appropriate to withdraw the approval of bitertanol.

    (4)

    Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1278/2011 should therefore be repealed.

    (5)

    Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (3) should therefore be amended accordingly.

    (6)

    Member States should be provided with time to withdraw authorisations for plant protection products containing bitertanol.

    (7)

    The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

    Article 1

    Withdrawal of approval

    The approval of the active substance bitertanol is withdrawn.

    Article 2

    Repeal of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1278/2011

    Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1278/2011 is repealed.

    Article 3

    Amendment to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011

    In Part B of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, row 21, bitertanol, is deleted.

    Article 4

    Transitional measures

    Member States shall withdraw authorisations for plant protection products containing bitertanol as active substance by 1 March 2014.

    Article 5

    Grace period

    Any grace period granted by Member States in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 shall be as short as possible and shall expire 12 months after withdrawal of the respective authorisation at the latest.

    Article 6

    Entry into force

    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, 8 August 2013.

    For the Commission

    The President

    José Manuel BARROSO

    (1)   OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1.

    (2)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1278/2011 of 8 December 2011 approving the active substance bitertanol, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 and Commission Decision 2008/934/EC (OJ L 327, 9.12.2011, p. 49).

    (3)  Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 of 25 May 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the list of approved active substances (OJ L 153, 11.6.2011, p. 1).

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