#32026R1123EU labelling rules for plant protection products
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The regulation updates EU labelling requirements for plant protection products, including pesticides and similar products used in farming and land management. It replaces the older 2011 labelling regime and aligns product labels more closely with newer EU chemical labelling rules. Manufacturers, importers, distributors, farmers, and enforcement authorities will need to work with updated label phrases and clearer criteria for when safety and risk-mitigation instructions must appear. The practical goal is to make labels more consistent across the EU and better tied to actual health, safety, and environmental risk assessments.
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Key Changes
- Replaces the 2011 EU labelling rules for plant protection products.
- Aligns plant protection product labels with updated EU chemical labelling requirements.
- Links standard safety and risk-mitigation phrases more closely to product risk assessments.
Obligations
What this law requires
Plant protection products placed on the EU market must be labelled in accordance with the updated EU labelling requirements laid down by Regulation (EU) 2026/1123, replacing the previous regime under Regulation (EU) No 547/2011.
Labels for plant protection products must use the updated standard phrases for special risks to human or animal health where the applicable attribution criteria require those phrases.
Labels for plant protection products must include required safety precautions for the protection of human health, animal health, or the environment where the product’s risk assessment and attribution criteria require those precautions.
Member States must notify the Commission and other Member States of any additional national labelling phrases necessary to protect human health, animal health, or the environment in their territories.
Where national environmental or agricultural circumstances require risk-mitigation measures under Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, Member States must notify the related additional labelling phrases for consideration and use in plant protection product labelling.