Update April 2022
Following HSE Pesticides eBulletin (8th April 2022)
The Official Controls (Plant Protection Products) Regulations 2020
The OCR aims to improve feed and food safety, animal health and welfare and plant health by applying official controls throughout the agri-food supply chain.
The legislation requires all operators involved in the supply of PPPs and professional users to notify their competent authority.
You must register as a business, organisation or sole trade that uses professional PPP’s and any adjuvants in Great Britain
Therefore, if you use professional plant protection products as part of your work, or if you have professional PPPs applied by a third party as part of your work in agriculture, horticulture, the amenity sector or forestry in Great Britain, then you must notify Defra by 22 June 2022.
Complete the form - Click Here
Email the file to GB-OCR-Notification@defra.gov.uk
If your business imports, manufactures, processes, distributes, or sells professional plant protection products in Great Britain (England, Scotland or Wales) the deadline to notify Defra was 22 September 2021.
If you have not yet done so, you should notify Defra immediately.
You do not need to notify Defra if:
you use pesticides, but not as part of your work - for example in your garden at your home