Biocidal products

Draft Commission Implementing Decision not approving cyanamide as an existing active substance for use in biocidal products of product-types 3 and 18 in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council; (5 page(s), in English)

This draft Commission Implementing Decision does not approve cyanamide as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product-types 3 and 18.

Due to uncertainties associated with the endocrine disrupting properties of cyanamide, it is not possible to conclude whether risks for both human health and the environment for the representative product used for product-type 3 (for the disinfection by professional users against Brachyspira hyodysenteriae of the liquid manure stored underneath the slatted floor in pig stables in order to protect fattening pigs against the pig disease dysenteria) and product-type 18 (for the control by professional users of Musca domestica in liquid manure in pig stables) are acceptable or not. Therefore it has ultimately not been demonstrated based on the data available in the application submitted for the approval that the representative biocidal product containing cyanamide for product-types 3 and 18 may be expected to not have unacceptable effects itself, or as a result of its residues, on human and animal health, and on the environment. It is therefore appropriate not to approve cyanamide for use in biocidal products of product-types 3 and 18.