{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1107/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1107/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/1107",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1107",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Low-risk active substances",
  "text": "1. An active substance complying with the criteria provided for in Article 4 must be approved as a low-risk active substance where—\n(a) that substance complies with the criteria in point 5 of Annex 2, and\n(b) it may be expected that plant protection products containing that substance will pose only a low risk to human and animal health and the environment as provided for in Article 47(1).\n2. Articles 4 to 21 apply.\n3. The appropriate authority may, by regulations, amend point 5 of Annex 2 to specify new criteria for approving an active substance as a low-risk active substance.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 22 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 4(28) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1107/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:07.189108+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}