
Article 1 
The approval of the active substance quinoxyfen is not renewed.
Article 2 
In Part A of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, row 82, on quinoxyfen, is deleted.
Article 3 
Member States shall withdraw authorisations for plant protection products containing quinoxyfen as active substance by 27 June 2019 at the latest.
Article 4 
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 27 March 2020 at the latest.
Article 5 
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, 6 December 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER