Reminder to register with Defra Official Controls Regulations for Pesticides
Businesses working with plant protection products (PPPs) in Great Britain are being reminded to check that they have registered basic information about their activity with Defra.
The Official Controls (Plant Protection Products) Regulations 2020 requires businesses including PPP maunfacturers, distributors, and users in England, Scotland and Wales to register by filling out a form online or as a hard copy.
Defra is collecting information from businesses in Scotland and Wales on behalf of the devolved governments, however businesses in Northern Ireland should not register with Defra as Northern Ireland has created its own regulations.
Details of the Defra policy, regulations, and who needs to register are available on the GOV.UK website.
Who needs to register?
Users of PPPs
Businesses and other organisations that use PPPs professionally in Great Britain, or have them applied by a third party, are legally required to register with Defra.
The registration deadline for existing users was 22 June 2022, however it is still possible to register as a professional user of PPPs. If you started using PPPs professionally more than three months ago, you should have registered already and must do so as soon as possible.
New users should register within three months of starting business. If you have already registered, you do not need to take any further action.
The form is available on GOV.UK, with detailed guidance on who should register and how to do it, including a video guide.
Suppliers
Businesses that import, manufacture, process, distribute, or sell PPPs in Great Britain should also have registered using a separate form on GOV.UK.
Retailers of amateur PPPs are also required to register, using a different registration form found on GOV.UK.
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As Head of Communications, Oli creates and oversees the content published on AIC's website, emails, Member briefings, print publications, and social media. A qualified multimedia journalist, he previously spent six years working at Farmers Weekly magazine as a Senior Reporter on the arable team, and latterly as Community Editor. More recently he was Communications Manager at Red Tractor.
