Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea del 20/7/2023 - Sección Legislación
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Source: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea - Sección Legislación
L 183/2
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
20.7.2023
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An application for the renewal of the approval of the active substance quartz sand was submitted to Latvia, the rapporteur Member State, and Romania, the co-rapporteur Member State, in accordance with Article 1 of Commission Implementing Regulation EU No 844/2012 6 and within the time period provided for in that Article.
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The applicants also submitted the supplementary dossiers required by Article 6 of Implementing Regulation EU
No 844/2012 to the rapporteur Member State, the co-rapporteur Member State, the Commission and the European Food Safety Authority the Authority. The application was found to be admissible by the rapporteur Member State.
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The rapporteur Member State prepared a draft renewal assessment report in consultation with the co-rapporteur Member State and submitted it to the Authority and the Commission on 2 March 2021. In its draft renewal assessment report, the rapporteur Member State proposed to renew the approval of quartz sand.
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The Authority made the supplementary summary dossier available to the public. The Authority also circulated the draft renewal assessment report to the applicants and to the Member States for comments and launched a public consultation on it. The Authority forwarded the comments received to the Commission.
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On 16 August 2022, the Authority communicated to the Commission its conclusion 7 which indicated that quartz sand can be expected to meet the approval criteria provided for in Article 4 of Regulation EC No 1107/2009.
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The Commission presented a renewal report regarding quartz sand and a draft of this Regulation to the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed on on 8 December 2022 and on 25 May 2023 respectively.
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The Commission invited the applicants to submit their comments on the conclusion of the Authority and, in accordance with Article 141, third subparagraph, of Implementing Regulation EU No 844/2012, on the renewal report. The applicants submitted their comments, which have been carefully examined and taken into consideration.
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It has been established with respect to one or more representative uses of at least one plant protection product containing the active substance quartz sand that the approval criteria provided for in Article 4 of Regulation EC
No 1107/2009 are satisfied.
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The Commission further considers that quartz sand is a low-risk active substance pursuant to Article 22 of Regulation EC No 1107/2009. Quartz sand is not a substance of concern and fulfils the conditions set in point 5
of Annex II to Regulation EC No 1107/2009.
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It is therefore appropriate to renew the approval of quartz sand as a low-risk active substance.
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In accordance with Article 141 of Regulation EC No 1107/2009 in conjunction with Article 6 thereof and in the light of current scientific and technical knowledge and the outcome of the risk assessment, it is, however, necessary to set a minimum purity of quartz sand and a maximum amount of the impurity respirable crystalline silica SiO2
with a diameter 10 m as manufactured in order to underpin the safety of the active substance to be used in plant protection products.
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Implementing Regulation EU No 540/2011 should therefore be amended accordingly.
6 Commission Implementing Regulation EU No 844/2012 of 18 September 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 OJ L 252, 19.9.2012, p. 26.
7 EFSA European Food Safety Authority, 2022. Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance quartz sand. EFSA Journal 2022;209:7552, 37 pp. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7552.
