
Article 1 
The active substance benzovindiflupyr is approved as set out in Annex I as a candidate for substitution.
Article 2 
The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 3 
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, 10 February 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX I

Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Date of approval Expiration of approval Specific provisions
BenzovindiflupyrCAS No: 1072957-71-1CIPAC No: not available N-[(1RS,4SR)-9-(dichloromethylene)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,4-methanonaphthalen-5-yl]-3-(difluoromethyl)-1-methylpyrazole-4-carboxamide 960 g/kg (50/50) racemate 2.3.2016 2.3.2023 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 benzovindiflupyr, and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, shall be taken into account.In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to the risk to aquatic organisms.Conditions of use shall include risk mitigation measures, where appropriate.The applicant shall submit confirmatory information as regards:
((1)) the technical specification of the active substance as manufactured (based on commercial scale production) including the relevance of impurities;
((2)) the compliance of the toxicity and ecotoxicity batches with the confirmed technical specification;
((3)) the effect of water treatment processes on the nature of residues present in surface water and groundwater, when surface water or groundwater is abstracted for drinking water.The applicant shall submit to the Commission, the Member States and the Authority the information requested under points (1) and (2) by 2 September 2016 and the information requested under point (3) within two years after adoption of a guidance document on evaluation of the effect of water treatment processes on the nature of residues present in surface and groundwater.

ANNEX II

In Part E of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, the following entry is added:

 Common Name, Identification Numbers IUPAC Name Purity Date of approval Expiration of approval Specific provisions
‘4 BenzovindiflupyrCAS No: 1072957-71-1CIPAC No: not available N-[(1RS,4SR)-9-(dichloromethylene)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,4-methanonaphthalen-5-yl]-3-(difluoromethyl)-1-methylpyrazole-4-carboxamide 960 g/kg (50/50) racemate 2.3.2016 2.3.2023 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 benzovindiflupyr, and in particular Appendices I and II thereof, shall be taken into account.In this overall assessment Member States shall pay particular attention to the risk to aquatic organisms.Conditions of use shall include risk mitigation measures, where appropriate.The applicant shall submit confirmatory information as regards:
((1)) the technical specification of the active substance as manufactured (based on commercial scale production) including the relevance of impurities;
((2)) the compliance of the toxicity and ecotoxicity batches with the confirmed technical specification;
((3)) the effect of water treatment processes on the nature of residues present in surface water and groundwater, when surface water or groundwater is abstracted for drinking water.The applicant shall submit to the Commission, the Member States and the Authority the information requested under points (1) and (2) by 2 September 2016 and the information requested under point (3) within two years after adoption of a guidance document on evaluation of the effect of water treatment processes on the nature of residues present in surface and groundwater.’

