
Article 1 
Annex I to Directive 98/8/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 December 2007 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2009.When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 December 2006.
For the Commission
Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

The following table with entry ‘No. 1’ shall be inserted in Annex I to Directive 98/8/EC

‘No Common Name IUPAC NameIdentification Numbers Minimum purity of the active substance in the biocidal product as placed on the market Date of inclusion Deadline for compliance with Article 16(3)(except for products containing more than one active substance, for which the deadline to comply with Article 16(3) shall be the one set out in the last of the inclusion decisions relating to its active substances) Expiry date of inclusion Product type Specific provisions
1 sulfuryl fluoride sulfuryl difluorideEC No: 220-281-5CAS No: 2699-79-8 > 994 g/kg 1 January 2009 31 December 2010 31 December 2018 8 Member States shall ensure that authorisations are subject to the following conditions:
((1)) the product may only be sold to and used by professionals trained to use it;
((2)) appropriate risk mitigation measures are included for operators and bystanders;
((3)) concentrations of sulfuryl fluoride in remote tropospheric air are monitored.Member States shall also ensure that reports of the monitoring referred to in point (3) are transmitted by authorisation holders directly to the Commission every fifth year starting from 1 January 2009.

