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§§ Sections 9, 23 and 24 (1) of the Plant Protection Act (PflSchG)

If you wish to place plant protection products on the market or import them, you must notify the competent authority before commencing your activities.

If your place of business or the place where you trade is located in another federal state, you must also make a corresponding notification there.

Offering and supplying plant protection products in trade also includes online and mail order sales.

The obligation to notify also applies to the import of plant protection products from abroad or the transportation of plant protection products within Europe, in each case for commercial purposes.

You must state your name and address or the name and address of your company. If several competent persons in your company place plant protection products on the market, you must state the names and addresses of all these persons. In addition, you must enclose proof of expertise in the supply of plant protection products for all the competent persons named in the notification.

You must notify the competent authority immediately of any changes to the group of persons and any changes that affect the details of the business as well as the cessation of the business.

• Completed form for notification and proof of the required plant protection expertise of the persons in the company 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.

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
• 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.

You 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 note the following: 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.
• In accordance with 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

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

• Notification of trade in plant protection products
• Placing plant protection products on the market
• Notification may be necessary in several federal states
• Import of plant protection products from abroad must be notified
• Movement of plant protection products within Europe subject to notification
• Designation of all competent persons in your company
• Proof of expertise for all competent persons named in the notification
• Notification before commencement of activity

Forms available: Yes

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: No

Personal appearance necessary: No