AI-assisted research summary: This regulation cancels the Union authorisation for Nordkalk Filtra G, repeals the earlier implementing regulation, and sets end dates for market availability and use of existing stock.
| Official Journal of the European Union | EN L series ---|---|--- * * * | 2025/1196 | 19.6.2025 ---|---|--- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/1196 of 18 June 2025 cancelling the Union authorisation for the single biocidal product ‘Nordkalk Filtra G’ in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2400 (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to 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 (1), and in particular Article 49 thereof, Whereas: (1) | On 12 September 2024, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2400 (2) granted a Union authorisation with the authorisation number EU-0029371-0000 to the authorisation holder Nordkalk AB for the making available on the market and use of the same single biocidal product ‘Nordkalk Filtra G’ in accordance with Article 44(5), first subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012. ---|--- (2) | On 5 February 2025, Nordkalk AB submitted a request to cancel that Union authorisation to the European Chemicals Agency (‘the Agency’) in accordance with Article 49 of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012. The request was recorded under case number BC-CW103987-10 in the Register for Biocidal Products. ---|--- (3) | On 19 March 2025, the Agency forwarded the request to the Commission. ---|--- (4) | On 2 April 2025, Nordkalk AB submitted a reasoning for the request for cancellation, providing that it had decided to discontinue the production of ‘Nordkalk Filtra G’ based on commercial considerations. ---|--- (5) | It is therefore appropriate to cancel the Union authorisation for the single biocidal product ‘Nordkalk Filtra G’ at the request of the authorisation holder and consequently to repeal Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2400. ---|--- (6) | It is also appropriate to grant a period of grace for the making available on the market and the use of the existing stocks in accordance with Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, ---|--- HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The Union authorisation for the single biocidal product ‘Nordkalk Filtra G’ granted by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2400 to Nordkalk AB with the authorisation number EU-0029371-0000 is cancelled. Article 2 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2400 is repealed. Article 3 The biocidal product ‘Nordkalk Filtra G’ shall no longer be made available on the market from 5 January 2026 and existing stocks of such biocidal product shall no longer be used from 4 July 2026. Article 4 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, 18 June 2025. For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN * * * (1) OJ L 167, 27.6.2012, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/528/oj. (2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2400 of 12 September 2024 granting a Union authorisation for the single biocidal product Nordkalk Filtra G in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L, 2024/2400, 13.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/2400/oj). * * * ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1196/oj ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition) * * *