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The notified Order establishes the phytosanitary technical standard to be met by wood packaging material, including wood dunnage, in accordance with International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) No. 15: Regulation of wood packaging material in international trade, for the entry of wood packaging material and dunnage into the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.

Amendments Act of Weapons Act, Strategic Good Act, Explosives Act and Other Acts: This draft amendment regulates the classification of weapons in the Weapons Act and introduces new terms (service weapon, military weapon, training weapon) . In addition, the object and purpose of the Weapons Act is modified. The Act has hitherto mostly regulated the handling and supervision of weapons in civil use. The amendment extends the scope of the Weapons Act to include the handling of any weapons.

Draft Commission approving PHMB (1415; 4.7) as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product-types 2 and 4

Draft Commission Implementing Decision not approving chlorophene as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product-type 3

Draft Commission Implementing Decision not approving PHMB as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product-type 1, 5 and 6.

Draft Commission approving azoxystrobin as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product-types 7, 9 and 10

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the conditions of approval of the active substance malathion. It provides that malathion is restricted to uses in greenhouses with a permanent structure and that Member States have to withdraw authorisations for outdoor use of plant protection products containing that substance. This draft Regulation only concerns the placing on the market of this substance and does not affect the European Union or national Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) for residues of the concerned pesticide.

This draft Commission Implementing Regulation provides that the approval of the active substance oxasulfuron is not renewed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. Existing authorised plant protection products containing oxasulfuron will be withdrawn from the market. The non-approval is based on the first evaluation of the substance for use as a pesticide active substance in the EU under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009. The substance was formerly approved under Directive 91/414/ EEC.

The Authority identified numerous deficiencies in the dossier resulting in a large number of data gaps and areas in which the risk assessment could not be finalised. In particular, the available information on oxasulfuron and its metabolites did not allow finalising the assessment of the overall consumer exposure, the groundwater exposure, the risk to aquatic organisms, earthworms, soil macro- and microorganisms and non-target terrestrial plants. The situation where a large number of fundamental parts of risk assessment

This decision only concerns the placing on the market of this substance and does not affect the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) for residues of the concerned pesticide. However, following non-approval, separate action may be taken on MRLs and if so a separate notification will be made in accordance with SPS procedures.

This draft Commission Decision aims at identifying 3-benzylidene camphor as a substance of very high concern due to its endocrine disrupting properties whose effects to the environment give rise to an equivalent level of concern according to Article 57(f) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH) .

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation establishing the format for registration and reporting of producers of electrical and electronic equipment and the frequency of reporting to the register