
Article 1 
Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 February 2013.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 14 August 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

In Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, row 244 on the active substance potassium hydrogen carbonate is replaced by the following:

Number Common name, identification numbers IUPAC name Purity Date of approval Expiration of approval Specific provisions
‘244 Potassium hydrogen carbonateCAS No 298-14-6CIPAC No 853 Potassium hydrogen carbonate ≥ 99,5 %Impurities:
 Pb max. 10 mg/kg
 As max. 3 mg/kg 1 September 2009 31 August 2019 
PART A Only uses as fungicide and insecticide may be authorised.

PART B For the implementation of the uniform principles as referred to in Article 29(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, the conclusions of the review report on potassium hydrogen carbonate (SANCO/2625/2008) and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as finalised in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 13 July 2012 shall be taken into account.
In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to the risk to honeybees. Conditions of use shall include, where appropriate, risk mitigation measures.’


