Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1313 of 1 August 2016 amending Implementation Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the conditions of approval of the active substance glyphosate (Text with EEA relevance)

In the seventh column, ‘specific provisions’, of entry 25 on glyphosate in Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, the text is replaced by the following: ‘Only uses as herbicide may be authorised. For the implementation of the uniform principles as referred to in Article 29(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the conclusions of the review report on glyphosate, and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as amended in the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed on 27 June 2016 shall be taken into account. In this overall assessment Member States: must pay particular attention to the protection of the groundwater in vulnerable areas, in particular with respect to non-crop uses, must pay particular attention to risks from the use in specific areas referred to in Article 12(a) of Directive 2009/128/EC, must pay particular attention to compliance of pre-harvest uses with good agricultural practices. Member States shall ensure that plant protection products containing glyphosate do not contain the co-formulant POE-tallowamine (CAS No 61791-26-2)’.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.