
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 January 2014.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 19 August 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

In Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, row 218 on the active substance acetic acid is replaced by the following:

Number Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Date of approval Expiration of approval Specific provisions
‘218 Acetic acidCAS No 64-19-7CIPAC 838 acetic acid ≥ 980 g/kg 1 September 2009 31 August 2019 
PART A Only uses as herbicide 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 acetic acid (SANCO/2602/2008) and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, as finalised in the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 16 July 2013, shall be taken into account.
In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to the protection of operators, the protection of groundwater and the protection of aquatic organisms.
Conditions of use shall include, where appropriate, risk mitigation measures.
The notifier shall submit confirmatory information as regards:

— the acute and long-term risk to birds and mammals,
— the risk to honeybees,
— the risk to non-target arthropods.
The notifier shall submit that information to the Commission, the Member States and the Authority by 31 December 2015.’

