91999E0154

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0154/99

by Anita Pollack (PSE) to the Commission

(11 February 1999)

Subject: Lindane

Further to my Questions E-2417/98(1) and E-2860/97(2), has the Commission yet received the report from Austria on lindane?

If so, when is it likely to be able to make its results available? If not, when does it expect to receive that report?

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(29 March 1999)

The draft monograph on Lindane, which was prepared in the framework of the first review programme undertaken under Commission Regulation (EEC) 3600/92 of 11 December 1992 laying down the detailed rules for the implementation of the first stage of the programme of work referred to in Article 8(2) of Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market(3) was submitted by the rapporteur Member State, Austria, on 17 December 1998 to the Commission and the Member States.

According to the usual procedures provided in Regulation (EEC) 3600/92 the draft report was immediately forwarded for an expert consultation (peer review) with specialised experts from five Member States to examine in detail the monograph in all areas of human health and environmental safety (physico-chemical properties, toxicology, residues, ecotoxicology, fate and behaviour in the environment).

Final results from this review are expected by November 1999. The results of this review will then be discussed within the scientific committee on plants, as well as with all Member States in the framework of the standing committee on plant health.

However, the Commission has also informed the Member States in the framework of the standing committee on plant health about the content of the Austrian documentation.

(1) OJ C 118, 29.4.1999, p. 73.

(2) OJ C 117, 16.4.1998, p. 84.

(3) OJ L 366, 15.12.1992.