Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 laying down rules on the making available on the market of EU fertilising products and amending Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 and (EC) No 1107/2009 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 1009)

ANNEX I Product Function Categories (PFCs) of EU fertilising products

PART II REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO PFCS

PFC 1(C): INORGANIC FERTILISER

1. An inorganic fertiliser shall be a fertiliser containing or releasing nutrients in a mineral form, other than an organic or organo-mineral fertiliser.

2. In addition to the requirements of either PFC 1(C)(I) or PFC 1(C)(II), an inorganic fertiliser which contains more than 1 % by mass of organic carbon (C_org), other than organic carbon (C_org) from:

• chelating or complexing agents referred to in point 3 of component material category (CMC) 1 in Part II of Annex II,

• nitrification inhibitors, denitrification inhibitors or urease inhibitors referred to in point 4 of CMC 1 in Part II of Annex II,

• coating agents referred to in point 1(a) of CMC 9 in Part II of Annex II,

• urea (CH₄N₂O), or

• calcium cyanamide (CaCN₂)

shall meet the requirement that pathogens in an inorganic fertiliser must not exceed the limits set out in the following table:

Micro-organisms to be tested	Sampling plans			Limit
	n	c	m	M
Salmonella spp.	5	0	0	Absence in 25 g or 25 ml
Escherichia coli or Enterococcaceae	5	5	0	1 000 in 1 g or 1 ml

Where:

n

=

number of samples to be tested,

c

=

number of samples where the number of bacteria expressed in CFU is between m and M,

m

=

threshold value for the number of bacteria expressed in CFU that is considered satisfactory,

M

=

maximum value of the number of bacteria expressed in CFU.