
Article 1 
Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC is amended as set out in the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 31 January 2010 at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.
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.
Article 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on 1 September 2009.
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 31 August 2009.
For the Commission
Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

The following entry shall be added at the end of the table in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC:

No Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Entry into force Expiration of inclusion Specific provisions
 ‘MethomylCAS No: 16752-77-50CIPAC No: 264 S-methyl (EZ)-N-(methylcarbamoyloxy)thioacetimidate ≥ 980 g/kg 1 September 2009 31 August 2019 
PART A Only uses as insecticide on vegetables may be authorised at rates not exceeding 0,25 kg active substance per hectare per application and for a maximum of 2 applications per season.
Authorisations shall be limited to professional users.

PART B For the implementation of the uniform principles of Annex VI, the conclusions of the review report on methomyl, and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as finalised in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 12 June 2009 shall be taken into account.
In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to:

— the operator safety: conditions of use shall prescribe the use of adequate personal protective equipment. Special attention shall be paid to the exposure of operators using knapsacks or other hand-held application equipment,
— the protection of birds,
— the protection of aquatic organisms: conditions of authorisation shall include risk mitigation measures, where appropriate, such as buffer zones, reduction of run-off and drift reduction nozzles,
— the protection of non-target arthropods, in particular bees: risk mitigation measures to avoid all contact with bees shall be applied,
Member States shall ensure that methomyl-based formulations contain effective repelling and/or emetic agents.
Where appropriate, conditions of authorisation shall include further risk mitigation measures.’


