Regulation 17 Handling and storage of plant protection products and treatment of their packaging and remnants
A professional user or distributor who carries out any of the operations set out in paragraph (2) must take all reasonable precautions to ensure that such operations do not endanger human health or the environment.
The operations referred to in paragraph (1) are—
the storing, handling, diluting or mixing of plant protection products before application;
the handling of the packaging and remnants of plant protection products;
the disposal of tank mixtures remaining after the application of plant protection products;
the cleaning of plant protection product application equipment after the application of that product;
the recovering or disposing of plant protection product remnants and their packaging.
No person shall combine or mix for use two or more plant protection products which are anticholinesterase compounds unless such a combination or mixture is expressly authorised or permitted by —
the conditions of an authorisation or permit granted in accordance with Regulation 1107/2009 given in relation to at least one of those plant protection products; or
the labelling of the container in which at least one of those plant protection products has been sold, supplied or otherwise marketed to that person.
No person shall combine or mix for use two or more plant protection products unless—
all of the conditions of the authorisation or the permit given in relation to each of those plant protection products; and
the conditions on the label of the container in which each of those plant protection products has been sold, supplied or otherwise marketed to that person
are complied with.
A person who stores plant protection products for professional use must ensure that such products are stored in areas that are constructed in such a way as to prevent unwanted releases.
A person must not store a plant protection product, or cause or permit another person to do so, unless storage of that product is authorised or permitted under a valid authorisation or permission granted in accordance with Regulation 1107/2009.