57It is true that Member States bear the responsibility for performing that comparative assessment (judgment of 13 March 2018, European Union Copper Task Force v Commission, C‑384/16 P, EU:C:2018:176, paragraph 56). However, what matters in the context of the assessment of whether the applicant is directly concerned by Article 2 of the contested Implementing Regulation is that, as is apparent from Article 50 of Regulation No 1107/2009, the Member States are, subject to the strict conditions laid down in Article 50(3) of that regulation, automatically obliged to carry out that comparative evaluation when assessing any application for authorisation relating to a plant protection product containing an active substance approved as a candidate for substitution and have no discretion in that regard. That obligation, which, according to Article 3 of the contested Implementing Regulation, exists for applications for authorisation submitted after 4 April 2018, has a direct bearing on the legal rules applicable to requests for authorisation for plant protection products containing 8‑hydroxyquinoline.
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