Press Release: Germany allows clearing of stocks of parallel imported plant protection products

The European Commission has closed an infringement procedure against Germany concerning the parallel import of plant protection products. Further to an amendment to German law, importers can now rely on the fact that they can clear their stocks after the voluntary retraction or revocation of the authorisation of the reference product. Before this amendment, the German legislation stipulated that the marketability of plant protection product ended immediately. Re-import-traders of these products were not allowed to sell the products that were left in their stocks at the time of revocation.