{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-284/annex/section-10/division-10.3/division-10.3.2/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-284/annex/section-10/division-10.3/division-10.3.2/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/284",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 284/2013 of 1 March 2013 setting out the data requirements for plant protection products, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-284",
  "path": "annex/section/10/division/10.3/division/10.3.2/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Circumstances in which required",
  "text": "Effects on non-target terrestrial arthropods shall be investigated for all plant protection products except where plant protection products containing the active substance are for exclusive use in situations where non-target arthropods are not exposed such as:\n(a)food storage in enclosed spaces that preclude exposure;\n(b)wound sealing and healing treatments;\n(c)enclosed spaces with rodenticidal baits.\nTesting shall be required if:\nthe plant protection product contains more than one active substance,\nthe toxicity of a plant protection product cannot be reliably predicted to be either the same or lower than the active substance tested, in accordance with the requirements set out in point 8.3.2 of Part A of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 283/2013.\nFor plant protection products, two indicator species, the cereal aphid parasitoid Aphidius rhopalosiphi (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and the predatory mite Typhlodromus pyri (Acari: Phytoseiidae) shall be tested. Initial testing shall be performed using glass plates, and both mortality and effects on reproduction (if assessed) shall be reported. Testing shall determine a rate-response relationship and LR50, ER50 and NOEC endpoints shall be reported for assessment of the risk to these species in accordance with the relevant risk quotient analysis.\nFor a plant protection product containing an active substance suspected of having a special mode of action (for example insect growth regulators, insect feeding inhibitors) additional tests involving sensitive life stages, special routes of uptake or other modifications, may be required. The rationale for the choice of test species used shall be provided.\nTesting shall provide sufficient information to evaluate the toxicity (mortality) of the plant protection product to arthropods in the in-field as well as in the off-field area.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "LR50, abbreviation for ‘Lethal Rate, 50 %’, that is to say the application rate required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "ER50, abbreviation for ‘Effect Rate, 50 %’, that is to say the application rate required to cause an effect on half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/284/annex/section/10/division/10.3/division/10.3.2/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:45.647621+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}