
Article 1 
The active substance acetochlor is not approved.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Article 12(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1490/2002, Member States shall ensure that authorisations for plant protection products containing acetochlor are withdrawn by 23 June 2012.
Article 3 
Any period of grace granted by Member States in accordance with Article 46 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 shall be as short as possible and shall expire 12 months after withdrawal of the respective authorisation at the latest.
Article 4 
In the Annex to Decision 2008/934/EC, the entry for ‘acetochlor’ is deleted.
Article 5 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following 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, 21 December 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO