draft commission regulation ec n--- --- of --- amending commission regulation ec n. 2032 2003 on the second phase of the 10-year work programme referred to in article 16 2 of directive 98 8 ec of the european parliament and of the council concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market. n of pages 7 pages for the draft regulation and 80 pages annexes languages english other eu languages are in preparation directive 98 8 ec lays down in article 16 that the commission and the member states have to review all existing active substances in biocidal products within a 10-year programme of work with regard to the safety of their use for human health and the environment with a view of their possible inclusion into annex i or ia to the directive. once the review of an active substance is completed biocidal products containing it will have to be authorised in the member states. according to article 5 of the directive member states can only authorise biocidal products if the active substance or substances is listed in annex i or ia and if the product among others complies with further conditions defined in article 5 of the directive. initially the first phase of the review programme was established by regulation 1896 2000 which required that producers formulators associations or other persons including member states could identify and or notify their active substances for the purpose of being reviewed. regulation 2032 2003 defined the rules for the second phase of the review programme and established the list of identified existing active substances the list of notified existing active substances and defined the consequences for the substances concerned in particular the detailed programme for the evaluation of the notified existing active substances. furthermore the regulation 2032 2003 laid down the rules for joining or replacing participants for the submission of complete dossiers. finally the regulation laid down the rules for the evaluation of dossiers by the rapporteur member states and the processing of the competent authority reports by the commission and the other member states in order to prepare the commissions decision to either include or not include an existing active substance in annex i ia or ib to directive 98 8 ec. the proposed draft regulation amends certain provisions of regulation 2032 2003 and adapts its annexes to technical progress in order to designate rapporteur member states for the review of existing active substances on the 3rd and 4th priority lists and to reflect the withdrawal of participants and non-submission of dossiers for substances on the first priority list. in addition it is proposed to introduce some new provisions to take account of among others the fact that certain existing active substances were not identified in the first phase of the review program despite being placed on the market before 14 may 2000 and where immediate withdrawal would lead to disproportionate socio-economic impacts or would lead to negative consequences for the protection of public health. it is therefore appropriate to draw u a further list of active substances in an additional annex that should be allowed to remain on the market until 1 september 2006. the draft regulation also introduces a system for an extension of the marketing period of biocidal products containing certain existing active substances for which no notification was submitted but the use of which is considered essential for reasons of protecting public health and protection of cultural heritage or the uses are critical for the functioning of society in the absence of technically and economically feasible alternatives or substitutes that are acceptable from the standpoint of environment or health. finally the draft regulation lays down new deadlines for submission of dossiers for substances for which following withdrawals or non-submission of dossiers other companies have taken over the role of a participant as established in article 8 to regulation 2032 2003