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, and in particular the second alternative of Article 21(3) and Article 78(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 608/2012 amended Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the conditions of approval of the active substance methyl nonyl ketone setting the condition that the notifier provides further confirmatory information in the form of studies on the specification with supporting batch data and validated methods of analysis.
(2)
The notifier submitted additional information taking the form of studies on the specification with supporting batch data and validated methods of analysis to the rapporteur Member State Belgium within the time period provided for its submission.
(3)
Belgium assessed the additional information submitted by the notifier. It submitted its assessment, in the form of a revised draft assessment report, to the other Member States, the Commission and the European Food Safety Authority, hereinafter ‘the Authority’, on 25 November 2013.
(4)
The revised draft assessment report was reviewed by the Member States and the Commission within the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and finalised on 16 May 2014 in the format of the Commission review report for methyl nonyl ketone.
(5)
The Commission invited the notifier to submit its comments on the review report for methyl nonyl ketone.
(6)
The Commission has come to the conclusion that the further confirmatory information showed that the minimum purity of the active substance should be set at 985 g/kg.
(7)
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly. Member States should be provided with time to amend or withdraw authorisations for plant protection products containing methyl nonyl ketone where necessary.
(8)
For plant protection products containing methyl nonyl ketone, where Member States grant any grace period in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, this period should expire at the latest eighteen months after the entry into force of this Regulation.
(9)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
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