Technical Notifications
- 27January2025
Plant protection products: Notification of active substances and quantities for the 2024 reporting year
The forms available for reporting plant protection product active substances and quantities have been revised and updated with the approval data for the 2024 reporting year.
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- 10December2024
Plant protection products: time of cultivation determines indication
The Federal Office informs crop advisors about changes in cultivation methods regarding fall cultivation, which raise new questions regarding the indication of plant protection products: There are no technical or legal objections that plant protection products for use in winter cereals may also be used on spring cereals if they are sown in the fall.
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- 10September2024
Publication of the harmonized risk indicators in accordance with Directive (EU) 2019/782
The harmonized risk indicators are intended to show trends in the reduction of risks due to the use of plant protection products in both integrated and organic farming.
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- 25July2024
Plant protection products: New features for eServices applicants
With its eServices, the BAES offers applicants the opportunity to simplify communication for authorization, modification and renewal procedures for plant protection products as well as for active substance approvals and renewals.
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- 15July2024
BAES on ACA report: Plant protection products are comprehensively tested and safe in Austria
The strict separation of scientific risk assessment and legal risk management guarantees that, on the one hand, effective means of combating plant pests are available to agriculture and, on the other, that food safety and environmental protection are guaranteed.
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- 08January2024
Plant protection products: New HRAC classification
Active ingredients of plant protection products are classified according to their mechanism of action and clearly assigned with the help of codes. The…
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- 14July2023
Customs Office Austria and BAES strengthen cooperation in control along the food chain
The cooperation agreement between customs and BAES brings more safety for consumers with regard to food as well as protection of domestic agriculture against introduced pests.
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- 21April2023
BAES supports fight against environmental crime
In the future, the BAES and the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) will jointly contribute their expertise to an Austrian task force to combat environmental crime.
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- 28February2023
Product recall of the plant protection product "Luna Sensation"
Bayer is recalling the crop protection product Luna® Sensation (Reg. No. 3603-0) with lot number EM4L034635.
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- 28February2023
Product recall of the plant protection product "VINOSTAR"
The company Adama Deutschland GmbH recalls the plant protection product VINOSTAR® (Reg. Nur. 3269-0) with the batch number 411324237.
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