This decision amends an earlier EU decision to update the authorisation holder and Union representative for genetically modified sugar beet H7-1 products.
25.6.2021 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 226/34 ---|---|---|--- * * * COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2021/1036 of 22 June 2021 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1113 as regards the authorisation holder and its representative in the Union for the placing on the market of products produced from genetically modified sugar beet H7-1 (notified under document C(2021) 4325) (Only the Dutch and German texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed (1), and in particular to Article 9(2) and Article 21(2) thereof, Whereas: (1) | Bayer Agriculture BVBA, based in Belgium, is the representative in the Union of Monsanto Company, based in the United States, concerning the authorisation for the placing on the market of products produced from genetically modified sugar beet H7-1 pursuant to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1113 (2). KWS SAAT SE, based in Germany, is the authorisation holder for the genetically modified sugar beet H7-1, authorised by that Implementing Decision. ---|--- (2) | By letter dated 28 July 2020, Bayer Agriculture BVBA informed the Commission that it converts its legal form and changes its name to Bayer Agriculture BV as of 1 August 2020. ---|--- (3) | By letter dated 28 July 2020, Bayer Agriculture BVBA informed the Commission that Monsanto Company converts its legal form and changes its name to Bayer CropScience LP as of 1 August 2020. ---|--- (4) | The requested changes are purely administrative in nature and therefore do not entail a new assessment of the products concerned. ---|--- (5) | By letter dated 10 August 2020, the Commission informed KWS SAAT SE about the requested changes. By letter of 9 December 2020, KWS SAAT SE informed the Commission that it agrees with the proposed modifications. ---|--- (6) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1113 should therefore be amended accordingly. ---|--- (7) | The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, ---|--- HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 Amendments to Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1113 Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1113 is amended as follows: (1) | in Article 6, paragraph 1, point (b) is replaced by the following: | ‘(b) | Bayer CropScience LP, represented in the Union by Bayer Agriculture BV,’; ---|--- (2) | in Article 8, point (b) is replaced by the following: | ‘(b) | Bayer CropScience LP, 800 N, Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63167, United States of America, represented in the Union by Bayer Agriculture BV, Scheldelaan 460, 2040 Antwerp, Belgium.’; ---|--- (3) | in the Annex, point (a) is replaced by the following: | ‘(a) | Applicants and authorisation holders: Name: KWS SAAT SE Address: Grimsehlstrasse 31, 37574 Einbeck, Germany and Name: Bayer CropScience LP Address: 800 N, Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63167, United States of America Represented in the Union by Bayer Agriculture BV, Scheldelaan 460, 2040 Antwerp, Belgium.’ ---|--- Article 2 Addressees This Decision is addressed to: (a) | KWS SAAT SE, Grimsehlstrasse 31, 37574 Einbeck, Germany, and ---|--- (b) | Bayer CropScience LP, 800 N, Lindbergh Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63167, United States of America, represented in the Union by Bayer Agriculture BV, Scheldelaan 460, 2040 Antwerp, Belgium. ---|--- Done at Brussels, 22 June 2021. For the Commission Stella KYRIAKIDES Member of the Commission * * * (1) OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 1. (2) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1113 of 3 August 2018 renewing the authorisation for the placing on the market of food and feed produced from genetically modified sugar beet H7-1 (KM-ØØØH71-4) pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 203, 10.8.2018, p. 32). * * *