This shall apply, in particular, to activities falling within the scope of Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, Directive 1996/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, Directive 2000/60/EC establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and its daughter directives, Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms, Directive 2006/12/EC on waste and its daughter directives (particularly Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste), Directive 2006/21/EC on the management of waste from extr ...[+++]active industries, Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs or Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed, if they contain provisions relating to soil protection.

(a) establishment of buffer and protection zones on fields adjacent to water courses and, in particular, protection zones for the abstraction of drinking water established in accordance with Article 7(3) of Directive 2000/60/EC, where pesticides must not be applied or stored; the dimensions of the buffer zones should be defined on the basis of the risks of pollution and the agricultural characteristics of the area concerned;

Excessive quantities of pesticides are still to be found in the aquatic environment. Preference should therefore be given in farming to products that are non-dangerous to the environment, the most effective application techniques, the presence of buffer zones between fields and rivers and streams, and limitation of spray drift.

Since the use of clean water does not represent a risk for public health as long as it meets the definition laid down in Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, and with a view to allowing land-based establishments handling fishery products to adapt progressively, the scope of the relevant provisions in Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 should be extended to such establishments during the transitional period.

The Directive requires the CE mark to be affixed to gas appliances and to a list of other products (construction products, simple pressure vessels, personal protective equipment, toys, telecommunications terminal equipment, hot-water boilers, electrical equipment etc.) likely to fall simultaneously within the scope of several technical harmonisation directives.

Whereas this Directive relates only to cosmetic products and not to pharmaceutical specialities and medicinal products ; whereas for this purpose it is necessary to define the scope of the Directive by delimiting the field of cosmetics from that of pharmaceuticals ; whereas this delimitation follows in particular from the detailed definition of cosmetic products, which refers both to their areas of application and to the purposes of their use ; whereas this Directive is not applicable to the products that fall under the definition of cosmetic product but are exclusively intended to protect from disease ; whereas, moreover, it is advi ...[+++]sable to specify that certain products come under this definition, whilst products containing substances or preparations intended to be ingested, inhaled, injected or implanted in the human body do not come under the field of cosmetics;