Pesticides A to Z index

A

• Active substances approval
• Active substances approved - The GB Approval Register
• Adjuvants (Article 58 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)
• Adverse data (Article 44 and 56 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)
• Advisory Committee on Pesticides (National Archive website)
• Aerial spraying permit arrangements
• Amateur use
• Aminopyralid FAQs
• Analytical methods
• Annual charge
• Applicant guide Overview
• Applications
  • Application types
  • Application process
  • Application forms (for product authorisation)
  • Application fees
  • Application targets
  • Application checklist (before submitting)
  • Application - what to include
• Application documents
  • Application overview
  • Draft registration reports (dRRs)
  • Letters of access
  • Product labels
• Applying pesticides

B

• Banned pesticides
• Basic substances
• Biocides
• Biopesticides/biological control agents
• Buffer zones (aquatic)/spraydrift (UK) (see also LERAPS)

C

• Certificates of free sale
• Certification Systems (Designated Awarding Bodies)
• CFS (Candidates for Substitution) (Article 24 of Regulation (EC) no 1107/2009)
• Chemistry (Identity and Physical and Chemical Properties)
• CLP (classification, and labelling and packaging)
• CLP (classification, labelling and packaging) - supply of chemicals to GB or NI
• Codes of practice
• Commercial withdrawals
• Comparative Assessment (Article 50 of Regulation (EC) No 1109/2009)
• Commodity Substances
• Confirmatory Data (Active Substance)
• Consultations
• Consumer exposure
• Contacting HSE
• COPR - (The Control of Pesticide Regulations 1986)
• Crop Conversion Database
• Crop Definitions List (previously crop hierarchy)

D

• Data mid-evaluation
• Data submission deadlines
• Data protection
• Data requirements (product and active substance)
• Database searches
  • Adjuvants
  • Product authorisations (previously known as The Pesticides Register)
  • EAMU - (extension of authorisation for minor use) previously known as Off-Labels Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009
  • Home garden (amateur uses)
  • Expiry dates
• Designated Awarding Bodies (Certification Systems)
• Detergents
  HSE is the Competent Authority for the purposes of Regulation European Community (EC) No. 648/2004 on detergents.
• Disposal of pesticides (using, storing and disposing of pesticides)
• Documentation Required for an application
• Draft registration report (dRRs)
• Drift reduction technology
• DTS (Detailed Technical Sift)

E

• Ecotoxicology
  • Birds and mammals
  • Aquatic organisms (including fish and invertebrates)
  • Bees and non-target arthropods
  • Soil Organisms including Earthworms
  • Other areas (non-target plants and sewage treatment)
• Efficacy
• Emergency Authorisations (Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)
• Enforcement
• Events (CRD Training Events)
• Experimental Permits/Approvals - Now Known as Trials Permits
• Expert Committee on Pesticides (ECP) (previously Advisory Committee on Pesticides (ACP))
• Expiry dates
• Export certificates (Certificates of Freesale)
• Extensions of Authorisation for Minor Use (Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)

F

• FAQ (frequently asked questions)
• Fate (Environmental Fate and Behaviour)
  • Soil
  • Surface water and sediment
  • Ground water
  • Air
• Fees
• Forms
  • Application forms (for product authorisation)

G

• Garden users
• Garden pesticides: guidance on pack size limits
• Glossary of terms
• Green Code - Code of practice for using plant protection products

H

I

• Import Tolerances

J

K

L

• Labelling Handbook
  • Volume 1: Requirements for all Product Labels
  • Volume 2: Requirements for Professional Product Labels
  • Volume 3: Requirements for Amateur Product Labels
  • Volume 4: Requirements for Labels of Products used under Permits for Trial Purposes
• Law and pesticides
• Legislation
  • Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011
  • Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011
  • Plant Protection Products (Fees and Charges) Regulations 2011
  • The Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012
  • The Official Controls (Plant Protection Products) Regulations 2020
  • The Food and Environment Protection Act 1985
  • The Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986
• List of UK designated training bodies and recognised specified certificates
• LERAPs (Local environmental risk assessment for pesticides) (see also Buffer zones(aquatic)/spraydrift(UK))
• Letters of access
• LTAEU (Long term arrangements for extension of use) (withdrawn on 31 December 2020)
• Low Risk Active substances and Products (Articles 22 and 47 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)

M

• MAPP numbers (product registration numbers)
• Maximum residues levels (MRLs) and import tolerances
• Monitoring
• MRLs - The GB MRL Statutory Register
• Mutual recognition (authorisation under Article 40 of Regulation 1107/2009 (NI only))

N

• National Action Plan (GOV.UK website)
• Non-dietary human exposure
  • Bystander and resident exposure
  • Operator exposure
  • Worker exposure
• Notice of Authorisation structure
• NSFC (Non-significant formulation changes)

O

• OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development website
• Official recognition
• Operator Exposure (see non-dietary exposure above)

P

• Parallel trade permit - Northern Ireland only
• Pesticides law
• PRiF - Defra Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (Previously Pesticide Residues Committee)
• Pesticide use (using, storing and disposing of Plant Production Products)
• PPPR (The Plant Protection Products Regulations)
• PUSG - Pesticides Usage Survey Group (Fera website)

Q

R

• REACH - UK registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (HSE Website)
• Registering a pesticide
• Registration numbers (MAPP numbers)
• Registers
  • GB Active Substance Approvals Register
  • GB MRL Statutory Register
  • GB Register of Unacceptable Co-Formulants
• Regulation 1107/2009 (legislation website) page (
• Renewal of product authorisation (Article 43 of Regulation No (EC) 1107/2009)
• Reporting incidents involving pesticides
• Residues
  • Consumer exposure
  • MRLs

S

• Seed treatments
• Sift
• Spraydrift/aquatic buffer zones (UK)
• Storing pesticides (using, storing and disposing of pesticides)
• Study protocols
• Sustainable Use Directive (legislation website) plant protection products overview

T

• Tank-mixes
• Targets (application targets)
• Toxicology
• Trials permit overviews (Article 54 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009)
• Two-stage applications

U

• Unacceptable Co-formulant Statutory Register
• Undersown crops
• Urea - commodity substance
• Using, storing and disposing of Plant Protection Products

V

• Validation check at sift
• Vertebrate data sharing

W

• Water volume (reduced water volume: operator and efficacy/crops safety risk assessments)
• WIIS ((Wildlife incident reporting scheme)

Y

Yellow Code - code of practice for suppliers of pesticides to agriculture, horticulture and forestry