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Commission Regulation (EC) No 833/2007 ending the transitional period provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 makes available detailed origin-destination data on national and also international road freight flows from 2008 onwards. It is now considered necessary to make national and international origin/destination data available to Member States in order to complete the statistical coverage of road transport at national level. Commission Regulation (EC) No 6/2003 should therefore be amended so that researchers and the scientific community in general should have access for scientific purposes to the data transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) under Regulation 1172/98, according to the principle laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European statistics. This Regulation enters into force on 31 March 2010.

Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerns the placing of plant protection products on the market. In September 2009, the company Sumitomo Chemical applied to the authorities of Austria for the active substance fenpyrazamine to be included in Annex I to that Directive. This Decision confirms that fenpyrazamine appears to satisfy the relevant data and information requirements, but requires the Austrian authorities to undertake a detailed examination and to inform the Commission of its conclusions by 31 May 2011.