The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 844/2012 setting out the provisions necessary for the implementation of the renewal procedure for active substances, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market

11.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 844/2012 setting out the provisions necessary for the implementation of the renewal procedure for active substances, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 11a, for “rapporteur Member State” in both places it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority”.

(3) In Article 13(3a)—

(a) in the first subparagraph—

(i) in the first sentence—

(aa) for “Authority” in the first, second and third places it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for “Member States” in the first place it occurs substitute “other competent authorities”;

(cc) for the words from “rapporteur Member State” to “Authority” in the fourth place it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority and the other competent authorities”;

(ii) in the second sentence—

(aa) for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) omit “the rapporteur Member State and”;

(b) in the second subparagraph, for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(c) in the third subparagraph—

(i) in the first sentence, for “Authority, in consultation with the Member States,” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(ii) in the second sentence—

(aa) for “Authority” in the first place it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for the words from “rapporteur” to “Authority” in the second place it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority and the other competent authorities”;

(d) in the fifth subparagraph—

(i) for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(ii) for the words from “, the rapporteur” to “Member States” substitute “and the other competent authorities”;

(e) in the sixth subparagraph—

(i) in the first sentence—

(aa) for “rapporteur Member State” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for the words from “send its” to “form of” substitute “circulate to the other competent authorities and the applicant”;

(ii) in the second sentence—

(aa) for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for “all the Member States” substitute “the other competent authorities”;

(iii) in the third sentence—

(aa) for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for “receipt” substitute “circulation”.

(4) In Article 14—

(a) in the heading, for “report and renewal Regulation” substitute “decision”;

(b) for paragraph 1 substitute—

“1.   Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 applies.

1za.   Paragraph 1a applies in relation to an application where—}

(a) paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 applies in relation to that application, and

(b) the European Food Safety Authority adopted a conclusion in relation to that application before 10th November 2018 in accordance with Article 13.”;

(c) in paragraph 1a—

(i) omit the first subparagraph;

(ii) in the second subparagraph—

(aa) for the words from the beginning to “Member State,” in the first place it occurs substitute “For the purposes of assessment of the approval criteria set out in points 3.6.5 and 3.8.2 of Annex 2 to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the assessing competent authority may”;

(bb) for the words from “rapporteur” in the second place it occurs to “Authority” in the second place it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority and the other competent authorities”;

(cc) for “Authority” in the third place it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(dd) omit “ the rapporteur Member State and”;

(iii) in the third subparagraph, for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(iv) in the fourth subparagraph—

(aa) for “Authority, in consultation with the Member States,” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for “Authority” in the second place it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(cc) for the words from “rapporteur” to “Authority,” in the third places it occurs, substitute “assessing competent authority and the other competent authorities”;

(v) in the fifth subparagraph—

(aa) for “rapporteur Member State” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for the words from “send its” to “form of” substitute “circulate to the other competent authorities and the applicant”;

(cc) for “Authority” in the second place it occurs substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(dd) for “all the Member States” substitute “the other competent authorities”;

(vi) in the sixth subparagraph—

(aa) for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for “receipt” substitute “circulation”;

(vii) in the seventh subparagraph—

(aa) for “Authority” substitute “assessing competent authority”;

(bb) for the words from “, the rapporteur” to “States” substitute “and the other competent authorities”;

(d) omit paragraph 2.