Submitting additional data and information during a pesticide evaluation

Additional data and/or cases can be submitted during evaluation to address any concerns raised that would result in the application being refused if they were not addressed (the 'data mid-evaluation' procedure).

These can only be accepted if additional information has not already been requested for your application in that risk assessment area, and where the scope of your application has not been changed. For example, data or case supporting an additional use or claim, or a change in GAP (good agricultural practice), would not be accepted.

An additional fee will be charged to cover the cost of evaluating the additional data or case, based on the modules that need evaluating.

More information on application fees.

Individual studies that need consideration in more than one risk assessment area will not be accepted. For example environmental data on pesticide levels in water requiring evaluation by both our ecotoxicology and environmental fate and behaviour specialist assessors could not be accepted. However, we will accept separate studies requiring consideration in more than one risk assessment area. For example 3 ecotoxicology studies and 1 residues study, and we would charge the appropriate specialist data fee modules for these.

You will usually have 13 weeks to respond to requests for additional information; unless we have multiple requests in which case the time given will be shortened.

Additional studies should not be started if they will take longer than the deadline given to respond to the request for additional information. The maximum total time you can have to respond to the collective requests for additional information must not exceed 26 weeks.

The acceptance of additional data is entirely at our discretion and the submission of any additional data will not guarantee the successful evaluation of your application.

A request to make a minor change to an application once it has been accepted is only acceptable if it falls within the criteria below, and the overall scope of the original application cannot be changed. We consider such changes on a case-by-case basis; and the decision will depend on the stage we have reached with the evaluation of your application. You may also be asked to submit additional data mid-evaluation or as the second part of a 'two-stage' procedure to allow us to complete the evaluation of your application.