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News rules for protecting people nearby plant protection product application in France.

Untreated buffer zones extended to places welcoming regular workers and further measures to protect people near residential areas provided for by departmental charters.

An order and decree adapting measures to protect people, and now particularly regular workers, nearby plant protection product applications have been published. The decree is in force since 27th January 2022, the order will enter into force in July 2022.

The order is relating to measures to protect people when using plant protection products and is amending the decree of 4 May 2017 relating to the marketing and use of plant protection products and their adjuvants. It extends the zones for which minimal distances without plant protection products applications must be respected by farmers to places hosting workers regularly present near these treatments.

In addition, the decree is answering to a legal demand from the Council of state. It strengthens the conditions for elaborating and adopting local commitment charters for which information system shall be put into place for resident and bystander.

Beside these 2 new texts, in his press release, the French ministry of agriculture and food announced that for all plant protection products classified as CMR 2 and authorised before the entry into force of the decree, ANSES will re-evaluate those in order to implement the non-treated buffer zones of the decree to these registered products. From 1 October 2022, products for which an admissible request has not been submitted to ANSES for a re-evaluation are intended to be subject to a default distance of 10 meters applied by regulation.

ANSES published a note detailing the content of the applications to be submitted to avoid a 10 meters buffer zone:

 Note relative securite riverains produits CMR2

The deadline set by ANSES for the submission of such applications for CMR2 products is end of May 2022.

If the evaluation of an article 43 application is ongoing, and if this application already includes the appropriate risk assessment as described in this new note from ANSES, the applicant only needs to submit an application form for each Plant Protection Product under article 43 process via email.

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