L 174/10 Official Journal of the European Union 12.7.2003 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 7 July 2003 adopting Community import decisions for certain chemicals pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 304/ 2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Decisions 2000/657/EC and 2001/852/EC (Text with EEA relevance) (2003/508/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 304/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 concerning the export and import of dangerous chemicals ('), and in particular Article 12(1) thereof, Whereas: 1 Under Regulation (EC) No 304/2003, the Commission is to decide on behalf of the Community whether or not to permit the import into the Community of each chemical subject to the prior informed consent (PIC) procedure. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have been appointed to provide secretariat services for the operation of the interim PIC procedure established by the Final Act of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade, in particular the Resolution on interim arrangements laid down therein; the Convention was signed on 11 September 1998 and approved by the Community by Council Decision 2003/ 106/EC (2. The Commission, acting as common designated authority, is required to forward decisions on chemicals to the Secretariat of the interim PIC procedure, herein- after ‘the interim Secretariat’, on behalf of the Commu- nity and its Member States. (4) ( ( ( ( ( 3) 4 5 6 = ) ) ) ) ) 0J ) 0J ) 0J The interim Secretariat has requested that participants in the PIC procedure use the special Importing Country Response form when reporting their import decisions. The chemical monocrotophos has been added to the list of chemicals subject to the interim PIC procedure, as a pesticide, for which the Commission has received infor- mation from the interim Secretariat in the form of a Decision Guidance Document. Monocrotophos is already subject to the interim PIC procedure to the extent that certain  severely hazardous pesticide formulations containing monocrotophos are listed in Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention. Pending a Community evalua- tion of monocrotophos within the framework of Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (°), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 (*), an interim response concerning those pesticide formula- tions was given in Commission Decision 2000/657/EC of 16 October 2000 adopting Community import deci- sions for certain chemicals pursuant to Council Regula- tion (EEC) No 2455/92 concerning the export and import of certain dangerous chemicals (°), as amended by Decision 2001/852/EC (°). Pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2076/2002 of 20 November 2002 extending the time period referred to in Article 8(2) of Council Directive 91/414/EEC and concerning the non- inclusion of certain active substances in Annex I to that Directive and the withdrawal of authorisation for plant protection products containing these substances (), L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1. L 122,16.5.2003, p. 1. L 275, 27.10.2000, p. 44. L 318, 4.12.2001, p. 28. L 319, 23.11.2002, p. 3.