What changed

Recital 7: (7) Regulation (EU) 2024/2865 laid down rules on mandatory requirements for label formatting. New information7 pointed to excessive administrative burden and costs, associated with these requirements. To balance the need for label information to be clearly understood by consumers with the need to reduce market barriers and unjustified burden for industry8, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises, it is necessary to simplify the current formatting obligations without reducing the level of protection of human health and the environment. The new measures should maintain a high level of consumer protection and ensure the proper functioning of the internal market. Suppliers must remain responsible for ensuring that the labels are legible in accordance with the legal requirements. / 8 As outlined in the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions The Single Market: our European home market in an uncertain world, A Strategy for making the Single Market simple, seamless and strong, COM(2025) 500 final, p. 10, available at: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/document/download/d92c78d0-7d47-4a16-b53f-1cead54bcb49_en?filename=Communication%20-%20Single%20Market%20Strategy.pdf.

Annex IV – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point f, Annex II – Part II – CMC 8: NUTRIENT POLYMERS: 1. An EU fertilising product may contain polymers exclusively made up of monomer substances complying with the criteria set out in point 1 of CMC 1, where the purpose of the polymerisation is to control the release of nutrients from one or more of the monomer substances. The polymer may additionally perform other functions, provided that this does not alter the safety characteristics of the product nor compromise the controlled-release function ;function;