COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 656/2011
of 7 July 2011
implementing Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides, as regards definitions and list of active substances
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 concerning statistics on pesticides (1), and in particular Article 5(2) and 5(3),
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 establishes a new framework for the production of comparable European statistics on pesticide sales and use.
(2)
In accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, it is necessary to adopt the definition of the term ‘area treated’ referred to in Section 2 of Annex II to the said Regulation, as it should be understood and applied in a uniform manner throughout the Union in the interests of comparability.
(3)
In accordance with Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, the Commission should adapt, on a regular basis and at least every five years, the list of substances to be covered and their classification in categories of products and chemical classes as set out in Annex III. It is necessary to update the list annexed to the said Regulation, as it was last updated in 2006, to cover the period 2010 to 2015.
(4)
The number of substances and the complexity involved in identifying the right compounds and classification make it difficult for the national statistical authorities to build up properly the necessary tools for collecting the information on use and placing on the markets. Hence, only those substances that have been allocated an identification number by one or both of the two major, internationally recognised institutions for registering chemical compounds or pesticides Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society (CAS) and Collaborative International Pesticides Analytical Council (CIPAC) should be included.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The term ‘area treated’ referred to in Section 2 of Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 means the basic area treated, defined as ‘the physical area of the crop treated at least once with a given active substance, independently of the number of applications’.
Article 2
Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 July 2011.