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Guidance on data requirements under the Control of Pesticides Regulations (COPR)

This page provides guidance on chemistry, efficacy and environmental data that are commonly required to support an application under COPR

Chemistry

Guidance documents on the chemistry data requirements for approval of non-agricultural pesticides under COPR:

Guidance on the Storage Stability Data Requirements for non-agricultural pesticide products
Guidance for Validation of Analytical Methods for non-agricultural pesticide active ingredients and products
Guidance on the Generation and Submission of chemistry data in support of the approval of non-agricultural pesticides
New source proforma (available as a PDF or MS Word document)
New source guidance
Technical specification proforma (To be completed for active ingredient(s) included in non-agricultural pesticides for which approval under COPR is being sought.)

Efficacy

Guidelines on the efficacy data requirements for approval of non-agricultural pesticide products:

Environmental

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Updated 12.03.12