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Register and source control legislation according to pesticide substances

• Regulation on the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) (EU, 2006b), which is the Europe-wide register that provides accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European countries including substances used as pesticides or biocides.
• The REACH Regulation (EC, 2006) aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through identification and risk assessment of chemical substances, and to register the information in a central database.
• The Directive on the sustainable use of pesticides (EU, 2009) aims at reducing the risks and impacts of pesticide use on human health and the environment, and promoting the use of integrated pest management and alternatives such as non-chemical approaches.
• The Plants Protection Products Regulation (EC, 2009b) set out rules for the authorisation of plant protection products and their marketing, use and control. Based on this Regulation, the Seventh Environment Action Programme (EU, 2013) set the objective that, by 2020, the use of plant protection products should not have any harmful effects on human health or unacceptable influence on the environment, and that such products should be used sustainably.
• The Biocide Regulation (EU, 2012) focusses on the marketing and use of biocide products.

The UN Stockholm Convention recommends the ban of specific substances, inter allia pesticides, to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants (UNEP 2018) ^[1].

[1] List of persistent organic pollutants: http://chm.pops.int/TheConvention/ThePOPs/AllPOPs/tabid/2509/Default.aspx