Agriculture & Food

#32026R1120EU adds twelve banned co-formulants for plant protection products

🇪🇺European Union··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This regulation adds twelve substances to the EU list of co-formulants that cannot be used in plant protection products. Co-formulants are supporting ingredients in products such as pesticides, but they are not the active pest-control substance. The change affects pesticide manufacturers, importers, distributors, farmers, and national regulators. Companies will need to check product formulas and authorisations to make sure these substances are not included in products placed on the EU market.

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Key Changes

  • Adds twelve co-formulants to the EU list of substances not accepted in plant protection products
  • Targets substances identified by Member States as meeting EU criteria for unacceptable co-formulants
  • Requires product formulas and authorisations to be checked against the updated Annex III list

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Do not include any co-formulant listed in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1120, in plant protection products placed on the EU market.

plant protection product manufacturersplant protection product importersplant protection product distributors
prohibition
high

Check plant protection product formulations and authorisations to ensure that the twelve newly added unacceptable co-formulants are not present in products authorised under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.

plant protection product authorisation holdersplant protection product manufacturersplant protection product importers
operational
high

Treat the twelve substances identified by Member States under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/574 as unacceptable for use as co-formulants in plant protection products authorised under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.

national plant protection product regulatorsplant protection product authorisation holders
prohibition

Affected Parties

Plant protection product manufacturersPesticide importers and distributors+2 more…

Tags

plant protection products,pesticides,co-formulants…