
Article 1 
The active substance potassium thiocyanate is not approved.
Article 2 
Member States shall withdraw existing authorisations for plant protection products containing potassium thiocyanate as active substance by 26 August 2014 at the latest.
Article 3 
Any grace period granted by Member States in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 shall be as short as possible and shall expire by 26 August 2015 at the latest.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 5 February 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO