The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Ongoing evaluations under Article 56(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009

13.—(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where—

(a) before exit day the holder of an authorisation of a plant protection product had notified a competent authority in accordance with Article 56(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as it had effect immediately before exit day,

(b) in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 56(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as it had effect immediately before exit day, a member State or EEA state was obliged to evaluate the information received, and

(c) immediately before exit day that member State or EEA state had not informed the competent authority in accordance with the first or second subparagraph of Article 56(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as it had effect immediately before exit day.

(2) Where this sub-paragraph applies, the first subparagraph of Article 56(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 applies in respect of that notification as if the reference to the competent authority which first granted the authorisation were a reference to the competent authority referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) of this paragraph.

(3) In sub-paragraph (1)(b) and (c), the reference to Article 56(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as it had effect immediately before exit day in relation to an EEA state means that Article as adapted by the EEA agreement as it had effect immediately before exit day.