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    • Application for de minimis aid in the measure “Aid for the production and use of quality seed”
    • Application for the granting of breeder's rights
    • Application for the inclusion of a variety in the Latvian Catalogue of Plant Varieties
    • Authorisation for extension of the application of a registered plant protection product
    • Authorisation for labelling of wood and wood packaging material prior to heat treatment
    • Authorisation for marketing of a registered fertiliser and substrate if its quality does not correspond to the indicators declared in the register
    • Authorisation for parallel trade of a plant protection product
    • Authorisation for printing plant passport
    • Authorisation for restricted and controlled use of an unregistered plant protection product
    • Authorisation for testing and registration of the relevant lot of the imported fertiliser and substrate
    • Authorisation for the certification of the process of heat treatment of wood and wood packaging material
    • Authorisation for the import and marketing of a specific lot of a registered fertiliser
    • Authorisation for the import or marketing of a fertiliser and substrate not referred to in regulatory enactments
    • Authorisation for the import or movement of harmful organisms, plants and plant products intended for experimental or scientific purposes and varietal selection
    • Authorisation for the introduction of a fertiliser and substrate for testing and registration
    • Authorisation for the placing on the market and use of a plant protection product
    • Authorisation for the training of users, user operators, sellers and consultants of plant protection products
    • Authorisation for the use of a registered plant protection product for unregistered use in studies and experiments
    • Authorisation for the use of an unregistered plant protection product in studies and experiments
    • Authorisation for the use of seed and propagating material of conventional origin in organic farming
    • Authorisation for use of plant passport and manufacture of plant passport
    • Authorisation of imports of unregistered fertiliser for efficacy trials and studies
    • Average seed sampling, analysis and labelling
    • Cancellation of registration of a plant protection product
    • Certificate for carrying out inspections of plant protection products
    • Certificate for testing the effectiveness of plant protection products
    • Certificate for the operation of plant protection products
    • Change of the holder of the registration certificate for a plant protection product
    • Declaration on phytosanitary control
    • Extension of the marketing period for a plant protection product expiring
    • Field History
    • Inclusion of a fertiliser and substrate in the list of fertilisers for organic farming
    • Inclusion of a variety in the list of varieties of fruit trees and berry species or removal from the list
    • Inclusion of the live organism in the Register of Plant Protection Products
    • Issue of labels certifying the inspection of plant protection products to the performer of tests
    • Laboratory analysis of samples of plants, plant products, soil and plant pests
    • Notification of areas where Sosnovska hogweed is growing
    • Notification of fertiliser and substrate
    • Overview of the proliferation of plant protection products
    • Permit for placing on the market of seed of varieties not yet included in the Latvian Catalogue of Plant Varieties
    • Phytosanitary certificate
    • Pre-export certificate
    • Recognition of plant protection plant inspection carried out in another Member State of the European Union
    • Registration in the official register of professional operators or deletion from the register
    • Registration in the register of collectors of vegetable varieties, amendment or deletion from the register
    • Registration in the register of integrated farming of agricultural products or deletion from the register
    • Registration in the Register of Seed Growers and Seed Traders, making or removing amendments from the Register
    • Registration of a Plant Variety License Agreement
    • Registration of fertiliser and substrate
    • Re-inclusion of the living organism in the Register of Plant Protection Products
    • Renewal of authorisation for the placing on the market and use of a plant protection product
    • Reporting of fertilisers and substrates produced and imported for marketing
    • Sampling of soil, plants and plant products for the determination of the presence of active substances of plant protection products
    • Special permit (licence) for the distribution of plant protection products
    • Submission of an application regarding the register of a fertiliser labelled “EC fertiliser”
    • Submission of information on available organic seed and propagating material
    • Submission of information on the products sold (explosives precursors)
    • Submission of information on the spread of Sosnovska hogweed in his or her own property or legal possession
    • Submission of information regarding the marketing sites of fertilisers (explosives precursors)
    • Summary of Fertilisation Plans for Cultivated Plants
    • Viewing the growing field
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Published: 26.02.2022.

Laws

Plant Protection Law

Protection Zone Law

  • Cabinet Regulation No. 834 Adopted 23 December 2014 Requirements Regarding the Protection of Water, Soil and Air from Pollution Caused by Agricultural Activity
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 147 Adopted 19 March 2013 Regulations Regarding Training of Professional Users of Plant Protection Products, Operators of Application of Plant Protection Products, Distributors of Plant Protection Products and Plant Protection Advisors and Procedures for Issuing Certificates
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 509 Addopted on 24 July 2012 Regulations Regarding the Placing on the Market of Plant Protection Products According to Regulation No 1107/2009
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 491 Addopted on 10 July 2012 Regulations Regarding Plant Protection Product Application Equipment
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 950 Adopted 13 December 2011 Regulations Regarding the Use of Plant Protection Products
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 949 Adopted 13 December 2011 Regulations Regarding the Placing of Plant Protection Products on the Market
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 682 Adopted 27 July 2010 Regulation Regarding the Special Permits (Licences) for the Distribution of Plant Protection Products
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 1056 Adopted 15 September 2009 Requirements for Integrated Cultivation, Storage and Labelling of Agricultural Products and the Procedures for Control Thereof
  • Cabinet Regulation No 1064 Adopted 28 December 2004 Procedures for Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Plant Protection Products
  • Cabinet Regulation No. 909 Adopted 9 November 2004 Procedures for Issuing a Certificate for Conduct of Efficiency Examination Trials of Plant Protection Products
  • Cabinet Regulation No 568 Adopted 29 June 2004 Registration Procedures for Live Organisms

International laws and regulations

EU Data base on Active substances, safeners and synergists

COMMISSION NOTICE concerning a list of potentially low-risk active substances approved for use in plant protection (2018/C 265/02)

  • REGULATION (EC) No 1107/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC
  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2017/1432 of 7 August 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market as regards the criteria for the approval of low-risk active substances

  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2018/605 of 19 April 2018 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 by setting out scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties

  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 540/2011 of 25 May 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the list of approved active substances

  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 546/2011 of 10 June 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards uniform principles for evaluation and authorisation of plant protection products

  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 547/2011 of 8 June 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards labelling requirements for plant protection products

  • REGULATION (EU) 2017/625 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation)

  • REGULATION (EU) 2019/1381 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 June 2019 on the transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain and amending Regulations (EC) No 178/2002, (EC) No 1829/2003, (EC) No 1831/2003, (EC) No 2065/2003, (EC) No 1935/2004, (EC) No 1331/2008, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) 2015/2283 and Directive 2001/18/EC

  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 283/2013 of 1 March 2013 setting out the data requirements for active substances, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market

  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 284/2013 of 1 March 2013 setting out the data requirements for plant protection products, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market

  • Pesticide statistics production SUMMARY OF Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 — statistics on pesticides

  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 656/2011 of 7 July 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides, as regards definitions and list of active substances

  • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides, as regards the list of active substances

  • REGULATION (EC) NO 396/2005 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC

  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 844/2012 of 18 September 2012 setting out the provisions necessary for the implementation of the renewal procedure for active substances, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market

  • COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1659 of 7 November 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 844/2012 in view of the scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties introduced by Regulation (EU) 2018/605

  • REGULATION (EC) No 1272/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006

  • REGULATION (EU) No 649/2012 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 4 July 2012 concerning the export and import of hazardous chemicals

International plant protection convention

Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

 

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