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From 1st January 2019, sales, dispensing, use and possession of plant protection products by non professional users will be banned in France except for biocontrol products officially listed by the Ministry of Agriculture in accordance with articles L.253-5 and L.253-7 of the Rural Code, for low risk products as defined by Regulation (EC) No.1107/2009 and for organic farming (UAB) products authorised for non professional users (“mention emploi autorisé dans les jardins (EAJ)”). This provision was set by the Law on the use of PPPs (Labbé’s law of February 2014) for entry into force on 1st January 2022. The entry into force was then brought forward to 1st January 2019 by the Energetic transition law from the Ministry of Ecology (August 2015). The aim is to reduce the risks associated to the use of pesticides by amateurs.
The implementation modalities of this ban are set by a Notice of the Ministry of Agriculture published in the French Official Journal of 22 December 2018.
Two lists of products have been published by the Ministry of Agriculture: one for the products still authorised for amateur uses from 1st January 2019 and one for the products with an authorisation in force in December 2018 but that are no longer authorised from 1st January 2019.
The stocks of products banned from 1st January 2019 held by non professional distributors can be sold to professional users by distributors certified for the distribution of plant protection products to professional users.
The unused products and packaging held by non professional users must be disposed of in a waste collection site or a temporary collection point for household chemical waste set up by the eco-organism Eco-DDS.
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