By way of derogation from Article 60 of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, Article 95(5) of that Regulation provides that all data protection periods for active substance/product-type combinations listed in Annex II to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1451/2007, but for which a decision on inclusion in Annex I to Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council was not taken before 1 September 2013, are to end on 31 December 2025. The objectives of that Article are to provide for the fair compensation of review programme participants which are data owners and to avoid the establishment of monopolies and a disproportionate protection period, by providing for the possibility for other economic operators to freely use the data from 1 January 2026 in order to access the market more easily and to reduce the costs for the producers of biocidal products that buy active substances from the suppliers and ultimately for the users of the biocidal products.
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