
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 2014.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 5 March 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

In Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, row 227 on the active substance ethylene is replaced by the following:

Number Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Date of approval Expiration of approval Specific provisions
‘227 EthyleneCAS No 74-85-1CIPAC No 839 Ethylene ≥ 90 %Relevant impurity: ethylene oxide, max content 1 mg/kg 1 September 2009 31 August 2019 
PART A Only indoor uses as plant growth regulator by professional users 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 ethylene (SANCO/2608/2008) and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as finalised in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 1 February 2013, shall be taken into account.
In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to:

((a)) the compliance of ethylene with the required specifications, irrespective of the form in which it is supplied to the user;
((b)) the protection of operators, workers and bystanders.
Conditions of authorisation shall include, where appropriate, risk mitigation measures.’


