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Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products Text with EEA relevance article 17 CELEX: 02012R0528-20240611 Making available on the market and use of biocidal products
1. Biocidal products shall not be made available on the market or used unless authorised in accordance with this Regulation. 2. Applications for authorisation shall be made by, or on behalf of, the prospective authorisation holder.
Applications for national authorisation in a Member State shall be submitted to the competent authority of that Member State (‘the receiving competent authority’).
Applications for Union authorisation shall be submitted to the Agency. 3. An authorisation may be granted for a single biocidal product or a biocidal product family. 4. An authorisation shall be granted for a maximum period of 10 years. 5. Biocidal products shall be used in compliance with the terms and conditions of the authorisation stipulated in accordance with Article 22(1) and the labelling and packaging requirements laid down in Article 69.
Proper use shall involve the rational application of a combination of physical, biological, chemical or other measures as appropriate, whereby the use of biocidal products is limited to the minimum necessary and appropriate precautionary steps are taken. |
Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products Text with EEA relevance article 17 CELEX: 02012R0528-20240611 Member States shall take necessary measures to provide the public with appropriate information about the benefits and risks associated with biocidal products and ways of minimising their use. 6. The authorisation holder shall notify each competent authority that has granted a national authorisation for a biocidal product family of each product within the biocidal product family at least 30 days before placing it on the market, except where a particular product is explicitly identified in the authorisation or the variation in composition concerns only pigments, perfumes and dyes within the permitted variations. The notification shall indicate the exact composition, trade name and suffix to the authorisation number. In the case of a Union authorisation, the authorisation holder shall notify the Agency and the Commission. 7. The Commission shall, by means of an implementing act, specify procedures for the authorisation of the same biocidal products by the same or different enterprises under the same terms and conditions. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 82(3). |