L 169/10 Official Journal of the European Union 29.6.2007 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 737/2007 of 27 June 2007 on laying down the procedure for the renewal of the inclusion of a first group of active substances in Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC and establishing the list of those substances (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (1), and in particular Articles 6(1) and (5) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Directive 91/414/EEC provides that on request, the inclusion of a substance can be renewed once or more for a period not exceeding 10 years. ()  The Commission has received a request from certain producers requesting a renewal for the seven active substances first included in Annex I of Directive 91/414/EEC. (3) A procedure should be provided for by which all interested producers have the right to inform the Commission of their interest in securing the inclusion of an active substance in Annex [ to Directive 91/414/EEC (4)  Producers wishing to secure the renewal of inclusion of active substances covered by this Regulation should be required to notify the relevant rapporteur Member State. (5)  The names and addresses of the producers whose notifi- cation has been found admissible should be published by the Commission in order to ensure that contacts can be made for presenting joint dossiers. (6) The relationship between producers, Member States, the European Food Safety Authority, hereinafter the ‘Authority’, and the Commission and the obligation on each of the parties for the implementation of the procedure should be laid down. () O] L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2007/31/EC (O] L 140, 1.6.2007, p. 44). ) (10) (11) (12) Technical or scientific information about an active substance, in particular with regard to its potentially dangerous effects or its residues, submitted within the relevant time limits by any other interested parties should be taken into consideration in the evaluations. The information submitted should include new data relevant to the active substance and new risk assessments to reflect any changes in data requirements under Annexes II and III to Directive 91/414[EEC, and any changes in scientific or technical knowledge since the active substance was first included in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC, as reflected in guidance documents from the Commission’s services and relevant opinions from the Scientific Committee on Plants (SCP) or the Authority. The range of uses submitted should reflect the representative use pattern. The producer should demonstrate, on the basis of the data submitted, that for one or more preparations the requirements of Directive 91/414/EEC in relation to the criteria referred to in its Article 5 can be met. It should be established that rapporteur Member States should send reports of their evaluations to the Authority and the Commission as quickly as possible. The assessment reports prepared by the rapporteur Member States may, where necessary, be the subject of an examination by experts of other Member States within a programme coordinated by the Authority before they are submitted to the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health. The rules on data protection under Article 13 of Directive 91/414[/EEC are intended to provide an incentive to notifiers to assemble the detailed studies required under Annexes II and IIl to that Directive. However, data protection should not be extended artifi- cially by the production of new studies which are not needed to decide on the renewal of an active substance. To this end, notifiers should be required to identify explicitly which studies are new compared to the original dossier used for the first inclusion of the substance in Annex I to Directive 91/414/EEC. The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,