{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1657",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Requirements for sales and purchases of plant protection products",
  "text": "(1) Subject to Schedule 1 (exemption for micro-distributors), distributors who sell to end-users must ensure that sufficient staff holding specified certificates are available at the time of the sale of plant protection products to provide adequate information to customers as regards use, health and environmental risks and safety instructions to manage those risks for the products in question.\n(2) This regulation does not oblige any distributor to employ staff, but any distributor to which the exemption for micro-distributors in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 does not apply and who does not employ staff must hold a specified certificate.\n(3) Schedule 1 has effect.\n(4) Distributors who sell plant protection products to persons other than professional users must provide general information regarding the risks for human health and the environment of plant protection product use, in particular on hazards, exposure, proper storage, handling, application and safe disposal in accordance with assimilated law on waste, as well as regarding low-risk alternatives.\n(4A) For the purposes of paragraph (4), “assimilated law on waste” in relation to Northern Ireland includes any European Union legislation on waste which has effect in Northern Ireland by virtue of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the EU withdrawal agreement.\n(5) A person (P) must not purchase, or cause another person to purchase, a professional product for use by any individual (including P) unless that individual holds a specified certificate or, if that individual does not hold a certificate, either of the conditions set out in paragraph (6) is satisfied.\n(6) The conditions referred to in paragraph (5) are—\n(a) where a professional product is purchased for use by P, P intends to work under supervision; or\n(b) where a professional product is purchased for use by an individual other than P, P must reasonably believe that such an individual will use that product under supervision.\n(7) In this regulation, “professional product” means a plant protection product authorised for professional use.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Pesticides and Fertilisers (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/306), regs. 1(4), 14(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(4) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 27(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 9(4A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Pesticides (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1376), regs. 1(2), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(4A) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 27(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1657/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:27:35.965660+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."
}