# Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC, Article 67: Record-keeping

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Producers, suppliers, distributors, importers, and exporters of plant protection products shall keep records of the plant protection products they produce, import, export, store or place on the market for at least 5 years. Professional users of plant protection products shall, for at least 3 years, keep records of the plant protection products they use, containing the name of the plant protection product, the time and the dose of application, the area and the crop where the plant protection product was used.
They shall make the relevant information contained in these records available to a competent authority on request. Third parties such as the drinking water industry, retailers or residents, may request access to this information by addressing the relevant competent authority.
The competent authorities shall provide access to such information in accordance with applicable national ... law.
By 14 December 2012, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the costs and benefits of the traceability of information from users to retailers concerning the applications of plant protection products on agricultural products, accompanied, if necessary, by appropriate legislative proposals.
2. Producers of plant protection products shall undertake post-authorisation monitoring on the request of a competent authority. They shall notify the competent authority of the relevant results.
3. Authorisation holders shall provide the competent authorities ... with all data relating to the volume of sales of plant protection products for the purposes of establishing and maintaining risk indicators in accordance with Annex 4 to Directive 2009/128/EC.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1107/article/67 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1107/article-67
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