
Article 1 
Regulation (EU) No 844/2012 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Article 6, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
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3. The supplementary dossiers shall be submitted no later than 33 months before the expiry of the approval.';
((2)) in Article 7(1), point (j) is replaced by the following:
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(j) a proposal for classification where it is considered that the substance has to be classified or reclassified in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;';
((3)) Article 11 is amended as follows:

((a)) in paragraph 1, ‘12 months’ is replaced by ‘13 months’;
((b)) in paragraph 2, point (e) is replaced by the following:
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(e) a suggestion for the classification, or its confirmation, where applicable, or reclassification of the active substance in accordance with the criteria of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, as specified in and consistent with the dossier to be submitted pursuant to paragraph 9;';
((c)) in paragraph 5, second sentence, ‘12 months’ is replaced by ‘13 months’;
((d)) in paragraph 6, second sentence, ‘12 months’ is replaced by ‘13 months’;
((e)) the following paragraph 9 is added:
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9. The rapporteur Member State shall at the latest at the time of submission of the draft renewal assessment report submit a proposal to the European Chemicals Agency (‘the Agency’) pursuant to Article 37(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 and in accordance with the Agency’s requirements to obtain an opinion on a harmonised classification of the active substance at least for the following hazard classes:
— explosives,
— acute toxicity,
— skin corrosion/irritation,
— serious eye damage/eye irritation,
— respiratory or skin sensitisation,
— germ cell mutagenicity,
— carcinogenicity,
— reproductive toxicity,
— specific target organ toxicity – single exposure,
— specific target organ toxicity – repeated exposure;
— hazardous to the aquatic environment.The rapporteur Member State shall duly justify its view that the criteria for classification for one or more of these hazard classes are not fulfilled.Where a proposal for classification of an active substance has already been submitted to the Agency and its assessment is ongoing, the rapporteur Member State shall submit an additional proposal for classification, limited to any hazard classes listed above that are not covered by the pending proposal unless new information has become available that was not part of the pending dossier as regards the hazard classes listed above.For the hazard classes, which are already covered by an existing opinion of the Committee for Risk Assessment of the Agency set up pursuant to Article 76(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, whether or not this opinion has formed the basis of a decision concerning an entry for harmonised classification and labelling of a substance in Annex VI of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, it is sufficient that the rapporteur Member State duly justifies in its submission to the Agency that the existing opinion, or where it has already formed the basis of a decision concerning the inclusion in Annex VI, the existing classification remains valid as regards the hazard classes listed in the first subparagraph. The Agency may provide its views regarding the rapporteur Member State’s submission.';
((4)) the following Article 11b is inserted after Article 11a:
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Article 11b 
The Committee for Risk Assessment shall endeavour to adopt the opinion referred to in Article 37(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 within 13 months from the submission referred to in Article 11(9).';
((5)) in Article 12, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
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1. The Authority shall examine whether the draft renewal assessment report received from the rapporteur Member State contains all the relevant information in the agreed format and circulate it to the applicant and to the other Member States at the latest three months after its receipt.'
((6)) in Article 13(1), the first sentence is replaced by the following:
'Within five months from the expiry of the period referred to in Article 12(3), or within two weeks from the adoption of the opinion of the Committee for Risk Assessment referred to in Article 37(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, if any adopted, whichever occurs later, the Authority shall adopt a conclusion in the light of current scientific and technical knowledge using guidance documents applicable at the date of the submission of the supplementary dossiers and in the light of the opinion of the Committee for Risk Assessment on whether the active substance can be expected to meet the approval criteria provided for in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.';
((7)) in Article 14(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'The renewal report and the draft Regulation shall take into account the draft renewal assessment report of the rapporteur Member State, the comments referred to in Article 12(3) of this Regulation and the conclusion of the Authority, where such a conclusion has been submitted, and the opinion of the Committee for Risk Assessment, if any, referred to in Article 37(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.'
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 to renewal procedures of those active substances for which the approval period expires on or after 13 May 2023.
It shall, however, not apply to renewal procedures of such active substances for which supplementary dossiers have already been submitted before the date of adoption of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 17 January 2020.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN