FRANCE: Update 2026 of the List of Spray Drift Reduction Equipment

The French list of plant protection product (PPP) application equipment equipped with a spray drift reduction technique has been updated in the  note DGAL/SDSPV/2026-404 of 11 July 2026. This note repeals the note DGAL/SDSPV/2025-694 of 17 October 2025.

This list is the one mentioned in Annexes 3 and 4 of the Order of 4 May 2017 on the placing on the market and use of PPPs.

These equipment make it possible, among other requirements, to reduce the width of untreated buffer zones near aquatic environments from 20 to 5 metres or from 50 to 5 metres (see Article 14 of the Order). Similarly, they allow some of the minimum safety distances to be adapted for applications carried out near residential areas and places where workers are regularly present, when these treatments are carried out within the framework of a charter of commitments (see article 14-2 of the Order).

Annex 1 of the note lists, by crop or type of crop, the equipment for reducing spray drift and the conditions of use to be respected in order to achieve a drift reduction efficiency coefficient of 66% to 95%. New equipment has been added for vineyards, orchards and low crops. Annex 2, which provides help in identifying the equipment by means of photographs, has been updated. Annex 3, which details the procedure for inclusion in the list of PPP application equipment, remains unchanged.

To download: 

Note DGAL/SDSPV/2026-404 (in French)

See also our previous articles: 

FRANCE: Update 2025 of the List of Spray Drift Reduction Equipment

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