Data protection and free-riding

The main elements responsible for impact have already been discussed costs in obtaining an authorisation lack of data protection and the free-rider issue once an authorisation is granted. The ultimate measure of this impact is the number of biocidal active substances and biocidal products on the EU market. This can be broken down into stages and these are discussed below. 

From an original exercise undertaken by CEFIC (the European trade association for the chemical industry) and contributed to by the European Commission, some 1500 biocidal 

In other words, some 75% of all biocidal active substances on the EU market before 2000 will have disappeared from the marketplace, by the end of 2006, for this reason alone. 

As already covered, the first batch of review dossiers had to be submitted by 28 March 2004. In theory, all notifiers within that batch should have submitted a dossier. However, several notifiers had advised the European Commission of withdrawal from one or more product types and at the time of writing, the Commission had published three such withdrawal lists. In addition, the experience has been that further notifiers failed to submit dossiers. By the end of the submission period, the received figures compared with the expectations were as follows. 

This relates to the fact that not all dossiers that have been submitted will be accepted, leading to the authorisation of the actives and their addition to Annex I. Indeed it has been 

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