Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1440 of 31 August 2022 amending Regulation (EU) No 284/2013 as regards the information to be submitted for plant protection products and the specific data requirements for plant protection products containing micro-organisms (Text with EEA relevance)

The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 284/2013 is amended as follows: (a) the Introduction is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation; (b) Part B is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation.

1 Applicants shall submit data, in the context of applications for authorisation of plant protection products within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 containing one or more active substances that are micro-organisms, in accordance with Part B of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 284/2013 as it stood before being amended by this Regulation in either of the following cases: (a) the application for authorisation is submitted by 21 November 2024; (b) the dossiers for all the active substances contained in the plant protection product concerned have been submitted in accordance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 283/2013 as it stood before being amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1441 .

2 As a derogation from paragraph 1, applicants may choose, from 21 November 2022 to submit data in accordance with Part B of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 284/2013 as amended by this Regulation.

3 Where applicants choose to apply the option provided for in paragraph 2, they shall specify that choice in writing when submitting the application concerned. Such choice shall be irrevocable for the procedure concerned.

Regulation (EU) No 284/2013 as it stood before being amended by this Regulation shall continue to apply as regards data required on one or more representative uses of a plant protection product, submitted before 21 May 2023 to fulfil the requirements of one of the following provisions: (a) Article 8(1), point (a), of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009; (b) Article 7(1), point (c), of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 844/2012 ; (c) Article 6(2), point (c), of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1740 .

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 21 November 2022.