Active substance approval: pesticides

• Introduction

  What active substances are, types, and use in pesticides

• Approval

  Use in GB, types of approval and applications

• Approval process

  Steps to enable use of an active substance in a pesticide in GB

• Renewals

  Steps for active substance renewal in GB

• Biopesticides

  Categories and approval

Lists and registers

• GB Approvals Register

  Active substances approved for use in GB

• New active substances

  GB pesticide active substance evaluations with links to statutory documents

• Renewal applications

  List of applications received for active substance renewal

• Register of unacceptable co-formulants

  Co-formulants that are not permitted to be included in any plant protection products authorised in GB

• Active substance amendments

  GB-only pesticide active substance amendment evaluations and associated statutory documents

More guidance

• HSE approval reviews
• Amend approval conditions
• Candidates for substitution
• Confirmatory data
• Substances subject to the poisons law
• Sanitisation and redaction
• Basic substances
• Low risk active substances
• Biostimulants
• Effect of renewal on authorisation
• Application fees
• Consultation
• MRLs
• Prohibited and non-approved substances