Plant Protection Products Regulation

02009R1107-20181110 → 02009R1107-20190715

Article 2 Scope 1. This Regulation shall apply to products, in the form in which they are supplied to the user, consisting of or containing active substances, safeners or synergists, and intended for one of the following uses: (a) protecting plants or plant products against all harmful organisms or preventing the action of such organisms, unless the main purpose of these products is considered to be for reasons of hygiene rather than for the protection of plants or plant products; (b) influencing the life processes of plants, such as substances influencing their growth, other than as a nutrient; nutrient or a plant biostimulant; (c) preserving plant products, in so far as such substances or products are not subject to special Community provisions on preservatives; (d) destroying undesired plants or parts of plants, except algae unless the products are applied on soil or water to protect plants; (e) checking or preventing undesired growth of plants, except algae unless the products are applied on soil or water to protect plants. These products are referred to as plant protection products. 2. This Regulation shall apply to substances, including micro-organisms having general or specific action against harmful organisms or on plants, parts of plants or plant products, referred to as active substances. 3. This Regulation shall apply to the following: (a) substances or preparations which are added to a plant protection product to eliminate or reduce phytotoxic effects of the plant protection product on certain plants, referred to as safeners; (b) substances or preparations which, while showing no or only weak activity as referred to in paragraph 1, can give enhanced activity to the active substance(s) in a plant protection product, referred to as synergists; (c) substances or preparations which are used or intended to be used in a plant protection product or adjuvant, but are neither active substances nor safeners or synergists, referred to as co-formulants; (d) substances or preparations which consist of co-formulants or preparations containing one or more co-formulants, in the form in which they are supplied to the user and placed on the market to be mixed by the user with a plant protection product and which enhance its effectiveness or other pesticidal properties, referred to as adjuvants.

02009R1107-20181110 → 02009R1107-20190715

Article 3 Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: 1. residues means one or more substances present in or on plants or plant products, edible animal products, drinking water or elsewhere in the environment and resulting from the … 1,268 unchanged words … approval decision or for the definition of risk mitigation measures; 33. impurity means any component other than the pure active substance and/or variant which is present in the technical material (including components originating from the manufacturing process or from degradation during storage). storage); 34. plant biostimulant means a product stimulating plant nutrition processes independently of the product’s nutrient content with the sole aim of improving one or more of the following characteristics of the plant or the plant rhizosphere: (a) nutrient use efficiency; (b) tolerance to abiotic stress; (c) quality traits; (d) availability of confined nutrients in soil or rhizosphere.

02009R1107-20181110 → 02009R1107-20190715

Article 80 Transitional measures 1. Directive 91/414/EEC shall continue to apply, with respect to the procedure and the conditions for approval: (a) to active substances for which a decision has been adopted in accordance with Article 6(3) of Directive 91/414/EEC before 14 June … 488 unchanged words … establish a list of substances included in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC which satisfy the criteria set out in point 4 of Annex II to this Regulation and to which the provisions of Article 50 of this Regulation shall apply.8. To a product which was granted an authorisation under Article 32(1) based on an application submitted before 15 July 2019, and which after that date falls under the definition in point 34 of Article 3, this Regulation shall continue to apply for the duration provided in the authorisation.