The GENERAL MANAGER for hygiene and food safety and nutrition having regard to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of February 23, 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC and the subsequent regulations amending annexes II and III to that regulation as regards maximum residue levels for individual active substances in or on certain products; Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) no 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 16, 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, as amended; Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 21, 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC, and subsequent implementing regulations and/or modification, and in particular art. 80 on "transitional measures"; Having regard to Directive 1999/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 31, 1999 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations, as amended, for the part still in force; Having regard to Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 21, 2009 establishing a framework for Community action to achieve a sustainable use of pesticides; Having regard to the March 31, 1998 Legislative Decree n. 112 on "transfer of administrative functions and tasks of the State to the regions and local authorities, in the implementation of chapter I of law March 15, 1997, # 59", and in particular articles 115 containing "Division of powers" and art. 119 regarding "authorizations"; Having regard to law no 172 on November 13, 2009 "establishment of the Ministry of health and increase the total number of State Secretaries of State" and subsequent amendments; Having regard to the Decree of the President of the Republic March 28, 2013, no. 44 concerning "regulation on the reorganization of collective bodies and other bodies active in the Ministry of health, in accordance with art. 2, paragraph 4, of law November 4, 2010, # 183 "; Having regard to the Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers in February 11, 2014, # 59 on "organisational regulations of the Ministry of health", and in particular art. 10 on the "General Directorate of food safety and nutrition"; Having regard to the Legislative Decree March 17, 1995, n. 194 on "implementation of Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products ', as amended; Having regard to the Decree of the President of the Republic April 23, 2001, # 290, regarding "regulation for the simplification of the procedures for authorising the production, placing on the market and sales of plant protection products and related processing", as amended; Having regard to the Legislative Decree March 14, 2003, n. 65, on "implementation of directives 1999/45/EC and 2001/60/EC relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations, and its subsequent amendments; Having regard to the Legislative Decree of August 14, 2012, n. 150 on "implementing directive 2009/128/EC establishing a framework for Community action to achieve a sustainable use of pesticides '; Having regard to the Ministerial Decree January 22, 2014 on "Adoption of the national action plan for the sustainable use of plant protection products on the market, in accordance with art. 6 of Legislative Decree No August 14, 2012. 150 laying: "implementing directive 2009/128/EC establishing a framework for Community action to achieve a sustainable use of pesticides '; Having regard to the request made on October 21, 2014 by the company Dow AgroSciences Italy Srl, with registered office in Milano, via f. Albani, 65, intended to obtain the authorisation of the plant protection product called GRANDOR cereals, containing the active substance 2.4 D, equal to the reference product called Malerbane Cereals recorded at n. 4090 1 December 1980 with D.D. on, edited later by decrees of which the last date in December 18, 2013, Enterprise Diachem SpA, with registered office at Albano s. Alessandro (BG), via Tonale, 15; Considering also that the reference product has been re-recorded in accordance with annex III of decree 194/95 and evaluated according to the uniform principles provided for in annex VI on the basis of the dossier GF 1387; Noted that technical and administrative verification of the Office has confirmed the existence of the requirements for the application of art. 10 of the aforementioned Decree of the President of the Republic April 23, 2001, # 290 and in particular that the product is equal to the quoted reference product Malerbane Cereals recorded in no. 4090; Detected so it's not requested the opinion of the Advisory Committee on pesticides, under art. Legislative Decree 20 March 17, 1995, # 194; Having regard to the Ministerial Decree of August 9, 2002 transposing Directive 2001/103/EC concerning the inclusion of the active substance 2.4 D in annex I of the legislative decree 194/95; Having regard to the Ministerial Decree of December 30, 2010 transposing Directive 2010/77/EC on the extension of 2.4 D as active substance in annex I up to December 31, 2015; Given that Directive 91/414/EEC has been replaced by reg. (EC) No 1107/2009 and therefore this active substance is now considered approved in accordance with that regulation and listed in annex to Regulation EU no 540/2011; Considering that the plant protection product the company has complied with the provisions of art. 2, paragraph 2 of the aforementioned Decree transposing to the active substance concerned; Considered to limit the validity of the authorization to the December 31, 2015, expiration date assigned to the reference product; Saw the deposit pursuant to Ministerial Decree on September 28, 2012 "Restatement of tariffs concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market to cover the sustained performance and made a request, in the implementation of Regulation (EC) 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council ";
Decreta: from the date of this Decree and until December 31, 2015, the company Dow AgroSciences Italy Srl, with registered office in Milano, via f. Albani, 65, is authorized for placing on the market of the plant protection product called GRANDOR CEREALS with the composition and conditions indicated on the label attached to this Decree. It is without prejudice to any subsequent fulfilment and adapting the conditions for authorisation of the plant protection product, in conformity to Community measures and other conditions relating to those active substances components. The product is packaged in sizes L 0.250-0.5-1-2-5-10-20-50-100-200. The product is prepared at commercial establishments: Dow AgroSciences Italy Srl-Mozzanica (Bergamo);
Diachem SpA U.P. Sifa-Caravaggio (Bergamo). The above mentioned product is recorded at # 16186. The label attached to this Decree, by which the plant protection product must be placed on the market, it is equivalent to that proposed by the undertaking which owns the reference product, suitable for grading the conditions laid down in reg. 1272/2008, as indicated in the communiqué of the Ministry of health of January 14, 2014. This Decree will be published in the official journal of the Italian Republic and communicated to the undertaking concerned. The abovementioned product data are available in the "database" of the area dedicated to plant protection products of the portal www.salute.gov.it.
Rome, December 9, 2014 General Manager: Rajput