12.4.2007 Official Journal of the European Union L 97/47 II (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 11 April 2007 concerning the extension of the deadline for placing on the market of biocidal products containing certain active substances not examined during the 10-year work programme referred to in Article 16(2) of Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2007) 1545) (Only the French and Polish texts are authentic) (2007/226EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, ()  Commission Regulations (EC) No 1896/2000 (?) and (EC) No 2032/2003 (}) lay down the detailed rules for the implementation of the first and second phase of the 10-year work programme referred to in Article 16(2) of the Directive. Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 2032/2003 specifies 1 September 2006 as the date Community, with effect from which Member States shall cancel authorisations for biocidal products containing identified existing active substances in respect of which there has been neither an accepted notification nor an expression of interest by a Member State. Having regard to Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market (!), and in particular Article 16(2) thereof, (3)  Article 4a of Regulation (EC) No 2032/2003, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1048/2005 (%), lays down the conditions under which Member States may apply to the Commission for an extension of the phase- out period laid down in its Article 4(2) and the Whereas: e ; . conditions for granting such an extension. (1)  Article 16(2) second subparagraph, and (3) of Directive 98/8/EC (hereinafter referred to as the Directive) provide that, where the requisite information and data for the evaluation of an active substance have not been submitted within the prescribed period, it may be decided not to include the active substance in Annexes I, IA or IB of the Directive. Following such a decision, Member States should withdraw all authorisations for biocidal products containing the active substance. (4 For some of the active substances for which use in biocidal products shall be prohibited after 1 September 2006, applications for extension of this phase-out period have been submitted by individual Member States to the Commission together with information demonstrating a need for further use of the substances concerned. () O] L 228, 8.9.2000, p. 6. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2032/2003 (O] L 307, 24.11.2003, p. 1). (*) Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1849/2006 () O] L 123, 24.41998, p. 1. Directive as last amended by (OJ L 355, 15.12.2006, p. 63). Commission Directive 2006/140/EC (O] L 414, 30.12.2006, p. 78). (* OJ L 178, 9.7.2005, p. 1.