The Labelling Handbook provides comprehensive guidance on UK labelling requirements for professional, amateur and experimental plant protection products (PPPs).
It is split into 4 volumes:
- Volume 1: Requirements for all Product Labels
- Volume 2: Requirements for Professional Product Labels
- Volume 3: Requirements for Amateur Product Labels
- Volume 4: Requirements for Labels of Products used under Permits for Trial Purposes
When preparing a draft label for submission to HSE and producing the final printed label after authorisation, you must use Volume 1 plus volumes 2, 3 or 4 as appropriate.
Classification and labelling under other legislation
This guidance is without prejudice to labelling requirements of other legislation, for example, Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures 1272/2008 (the CLP regulation). However, the Handbook does provide guidance on incorporating the requirements of CLP on product labels.
Regulatory updates
There is additional information on labelling issues in these regulatory updates on the National Archives website.
- 21/2006 - Using Non-Toxic Slug Traps When Assessing Slug Activity and the Risk of Damage in Winter Wheat and Oilseed Rape
- 03/2010 - Changes to Labelling and Other Requirements for Home and Garden Pesticides (2)
- 25/2010 - Changes to Labelling for Certain Home and Garden Pesticides Containing Ferric Phosphate
- 28/2010 - New Procedures for Label Checking
- 05/2011 - Regulatory Update: Clopyralid - label amendments for amateur products
- 42/2011 - Application of the HardSPEC Assumptions from the Regulatory Risk Assessment on Non-Porous Hard Surface
- 30/2012 - Changes to the default label phrase and respiratory protective equipment (RPE) requirements for Plant Protection Products containing micro-organisms
- 19/2013 - Amateur Products - Change of Disposal Safety Phrase
- 08/2014 - Amateur Products – Change of Disposal Safety Phrase – Amendment Notice
Contact HSE
If you have any comments on the Labelling Handbook, or any suggestions for improvement, contact HSE.