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Sou can submit your notification in writing or electronically.

Once you have submitted the application and all documents are complete, the competent authority will check whether all requirements for notification in accordance with the Plant Protection Act have been met.

If all documents are complete, you have fulfilled your obligation to notify in accordance with the Plant Protection Act.

You may only commence your activities once you have fulfilled the obligation to notify in accordance with the Plant Protection Act.

Please contact the Supervisory and Service Directorate in Trier.

To ensure that you comply with your notification obligation under the Plant Protection Act in good time, you must

• complete the relevant application form and send it to the competent authority before commencing your activities and
• attach to the application form proof of the required plant protection expertise in accordance with the Plant Protection Act of the persons in the company who place plant protection products on the market. Since 26.11.2015, only the new certificate of competence in check card format has been valid as a certificate of competence.

• Completed notification form and proof of the required plant protection expertise of the persons on the farm who place plant protection products on the market.
• The form must be completed separately for both the head office/company headquarters and for each branch/branch.

at least EUR 25

You must make the notification before you start work.

You may only commence your activity once you have fulfilled the obligation to notify in accordance with the Plant Protection Act.

If you do not comply with your obligation to notify or do not do so in good time, you are acting in breach of the regulations.

1 - 2 weeks

• § 24 Absatz 1 Pflanzenschutzgesetz (PflSchG)
• § 9 Pflanzenschutzgesetz (PflSchG)
• § 23 Pflanzenschutzgesetz (PflSchG)

Appeal (appeal may be excluded depending on national law), administrative court action

• If you do not comply with your obligation to notify or do not do so in good time, you are acting in violation of the regulations.
• The notification in accordance with the Plant Protection Act does not replace the trading permit for toxic substances in accordance with the Chemicals Prohibition Ordinance.
• According to the Plant Protection Act, persons who carry out an activity requiring expert knowledge in plant protection and have a certificate of competence in plant protection are obliged to take part in a recognized advanced training course at least once within a three-year period.
• Persons who, for commercial purposes or in the context of other economic activities, arrange the placing on the market, intra-Community movement or import of plant protection products in or into Germany or offer auxiliary services for the import or intra-Community movement of plant protection products must notify the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety before commencing their activities in accordance with the Plant Protection Act.

08.02.2024

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.