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Expansion of the Low-Risk Substances in the Framework of the European Pesticide Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

Diane C. Robin  and
Patrice A. Marchand Open the ORCID record for Patrice A. Marchand [Opens in a new window]
Diane C. Robin
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Institut Technique de l’Agriculture Biologique (ITAB), 149 rue de Bercy, F-75595 Paris Cedex 12, France
Patrice A. Marchand*
Affiliation:
Institut Technique de l’Agriculture Biologique (ITAB), 149 rue de Bercy, F-75595 Paris Cedex 12, France
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*Corresponding author. Email: patrice.marchand@itab.asso.fr
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Abstract

Signed in 2009, the plant protection Commission Regulation EC No 1107/2009 created a new category of active substances, the low-risk substances, with specific status defined in Article 22. The initial and specific criteria, not suitable for microorganisms and natural substances, were modified in 2018, and the first low-risk substance, allocating Part D of Regulation EC No 540/2011, was granted in the same year. Since then, thirty-three low-risk substances have been granted with this specific status through approvals and renewals, while a larger list of potential low-risk substances from already-approved active substances was published. This list is only exploited during renewals, and this process would take another five years to complete. After four years of the implementation of this status, the number of such substances is still low, but is intended to increase slowly. Two more low-risk substances are already pending in 2021, which will bring the number of low-risk substances to thirty-five, while the initial list of potential low-risk substances (only renewals) included fifty-seven substances.

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active substancesArticle 22biocontrol agentslow-riskRegulation (EC) No 1107/2009
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 514 - 531
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35 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1003 of 9 July 2020 renewing the approval of the active substances Phlebiopsis gigantea strains VRA 1835, VRA 1984 and FOC PG 410.3 as low-risk substances in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011. C/2020/4543. OJ L 221/127.

36 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/134 of 4 February 2021 renewing the approval of the low-risk active substance Akanthomyces muscarius strain Ve6 (formerly Lecanicillium muscarium strain Ve6) in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011. C/2021/527. OJ L 42/4.

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