
Article 1 
Aluminium phosphide releasing phosphine shall be approved as an active substance for use in biocidal products for product-type 20, subject to the specifications and conditions set out in the Annex.
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.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 24 October 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

Common Name IUPAC NameIdentification Numbers Minimum degree of purity of the active substance Date of approval Expiry date of approval Product type Specific conditions
Aluminium phosphide releasing phosphine IUPAC Name: Aluminium phosphideEC No: 244-088-0CAS No: 20859-73-8 830 g/kg 1 July 2015 30 June 2025 20 The product assessment shall pay particular attention to the exposures, the risks and the efficacy linked to any uses covered by an application for authorisation, but not addressed in the Union level risk assessment of the active substance.Authorisations are subject to the following conditions:
((1)) Products shall only be sold to and used by specifically trained professionals.
((2)) In view of the risks identified for operators, appropriate risk mitigation measures must be applied. These include, amongst others, the use of appropriate personal protective equipment, the use of applicators and the presentation of the product in a form designed to reduce operator exposure to an acceptable level.
((3)) In view of the risks identified for terrestrial non-target species, appropriate risk reduction measures must be applied. These include, amongst others, the non-treatment of areas where other burrowing mammals than the target species are present.

