# 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, Article 41: Authorisation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The competent authority to which an application under Article 40 as it had effect immediately before IP completion day is submitted shall, having examined the application and the accompanying documents referred to in Article 42(1), as appropriate with regard to the circumstances in its territory, authorise the plant protection product concerned under the same conditions as the reference state, except where Article 36(3) applies.
1A. But where the application was for authorisation of minor uses in accordance with Article 51(7) as it had effect immediately before IP completion day, the competent authority must authorise such uses, except where—
(a) Article 36(3) applies, or
(b) the competent authority considers that those uses are not minor.
2. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 1A, the competent authority may authorise the plant protection product where:
(a) an authorisation under point (b) of Article 40(1) as it had effect immediately before IP completion day was applied for;
(b) it contains a candidate of substitution; or
(c) Article 30 has been applied; or
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1107/article/41 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1107/article-41
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