Biocidal products shall not be made available on the market or used unless authorised in accordance with this Regulation.

Applications for authorisation shall be made by, or on behalf of, the prospective authorisation holder F1to the competent authority.

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An authorisation may be granted for a single biocidal product or a biocidal product family.

An authorisation shall be granted for a maximum period of 10 years.

Biocidal products shall be used in compliance with the terms and conditions of the authorisation stipulated in accordance with Article 22(1) and the labelling and packaging requirements laid down in Article 69.

Proper use shall involve the rational application of a combination of physical, biological, chemical or other measures as appropriate, whereby the use of biocidal products is limited to the minimum necessary and appropriate precautionary steps are taken.

F4The competent authority shall take necessary measures to provide the public with appropriate information about the benefits and risks associated with biocidal products and ways of minimising their use.

The F5biocidal product family authorisation holder shall notify the competent authority of each product within the biocidal product family at least 30 days before placing it on the market, except where a particular product is explicitly identified in the authorisation or the variation in composition concerns only pigments, perfumes and dyes within the permitted variations. The notification shall indicate the exact composition, trade name and suffix to the authorisation number. F6...

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