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Plant protection products (PPPs): register as a professional user

If you’re a business, organisation or sole trader that uses PPPs and adjuvants professionally in Great Britain, register to comply with regulations.
Persistent organic pollutants: notifying POPs stockpiles

How to notify stockpiles of material containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and a form for reporting them to the Environment Agency.
Professional plant protection products (PPPs): register as a business that places them on the market

If you import, manufacture, process, distribute or sell plant protection products (PPPs) for professional use in Great Britain, register to comply with regulations.
Restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS): exemption form

Apply for an exemption from restriction of hazardous substances (RoHS) regulations.
Amateur plant protection products (PPPs): register as a seller

If your business sells amateur plant protection products (PPPs) in Great Britain, register to comply with regulations.

Manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing POPs
- Detailed guide
- 2 December 2024
- Environment Agency
Comply with UK REACH: submit and manage chemical registrations and notifications
- Detailed guide
- 20 July 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Fluorinated gases (F gases)
- Detailed guide
- 7 February 2024
- Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Using persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
- Detailed guide
- 12 January 2024
- Environment Agency
Qualifications to work with F gas
- Detailed guide
- 3 February 2023
- Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Complete ban on bee killing pesticides moves forward
- 21 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
UK REACH authorisation for Bonaprene Products Limited, 15 October 2024
- 15 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Decision
Marine Pollution Incident Resilience workshop begins in Honiara
- 8 October 2024
- World news story
UK REACH authorisation for ADCR Consortium (inorganic finish stripping), 5 September 2024
- 23 September 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Decision
UK REACH authorisation for Indestructible Paint Ltd, 5 September 2024
- 23 September 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Decision

An alternative transitional registration model (ATRm) for UK REACH
- 13 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 25 July 2024
Environmental permitting: standard rules consultation number 28
- 7 August 2024
- Environment Agency
- Open consultation
- Date closed 30 October 2024
Amendments to the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulation
- 4 April 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 27 April 2023
Sun tanning lamps: exemption for lead as the activator
- 15 March 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 10 May 2024
Industrial monitoring and control instruments: exemption for cadmium anodes in Hersch cells
- 15 March 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 10 May 2024

Transitional applications for authorisation under UK REACH
- 19 June 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Transparency
Communications with pesticide manufacturers concerning bees
- 24 November 2016
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Foi release