Active substances exempted from the ban

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Here you can find comprehensive tables over the active substances exempted from the ban on use of plant protections products in certain areas. The ban and the exemptions apply from the 1st of October 2021. There is also information on how to find the products allowed to use in forbidden areas.

What do the exemptions mean in practice?

The use of plant protections products in certain areas is banned in Sweden since the 1st of October 2021, according to Chapter 2, 37 § p. 2-6 in the Swedish Ordinance (2014:425) on pesticides. But according to 37a § in the ordinance, the Swedish Chemicals Agency has the mandate to decide on exemptions from the ban for active substances that only pose limited risks. This means that plant protection products containing only exempted active substances with limited risks may be used in the areas otherwise covered by the ban - provided that the intended use is included in the conditions of the product authorisation.

About one third of the exempted chemical active substances, and less than half of the exempted active microorganisms, are today represented on the Swedish market in authorised plant protection products.

In a new publication from the Swedish Board of Agriculture “Växtskyddsmedel med begränsad risk“ from June 2022, you can find which plant protection products that are authorised in Sweden and allowed to use in the forbidden areas. Please notice that the use must be in accordance with the conditions of use of the authorised product or in the extended authorisation for minor uses. The publication from the Swedish Board of Agriculture lists the products allowed to use as of June 2022. In order to check whether there have been any amendments for specific products thereafter, please go to our national Pesticide Register.

Here you can find the publication of the Swedish Board of Agriculture " Växtskyddsmedel med begränsad risk" (in Swedish). External link.

Go to Swedens national Pesticide Register. External link.

Please note that so called "basic substances for plant protection purposes" and NIS (nematodes, insects and arachnids) are not defined as plant protection products in the Regulation (EC) 1107/2009, and are therefore not covered by the ban.

The substances exempted by the Swedish Chemicals Agency are:

• active substances approved as substances posing low risks in accordance with Article 22 of the EU Plant Protection Products Regulation (No 1107/2009) and listed in Part D in the Annex of the EU Regulation (EC) No 540/2011.
• active substances listed in Annex 1 to KIFS 2022:3. The majority of these substances have been listed as potential low risk substances in the EU.

You can find links to the current versions of Regulation (EC) No 540/2011 and the Swedish Ordinance KIFS 2022:3 on our webpage Rules for Plant Protection Products

Plant protection products for non-professional use may only contain the exempted substances

The tables also show which substances that will in the longer term be allowed in products authorised for non-professional users. The Swedish Chemicals Agency has decided that from the 17th of May 2021 only products containing exempted active substances can be placed in authorisation class 3 when authorisations are granted or renewed. Authorisation class 3 includes the products allowed for non-professional users.

Description of the tables of exempted active substances

The tables below show comprehensive lists of the exempted active substances and in which legislation they are listed. Substances that occur in both legislations are shown as listed in (EC) No 540/2011. There is one table for chemical substances and one for microorganisms.

In the tables you will find:

• the name of the active substance/microorganism, in the form used in the legislation.
  Note that if you wish to search for an active in the Swedish national Register of Pesticides (Bekämpningsmedelsregistret), please use the Swedish name of the active, as found in the Swedish versions of the tables. In a few cases, an alternative Swedish name should be used for such searches. It is then given within brackets in the Swedish tables.
  
• In the Swedish versions of the tables, you can also see information on whether there are any approved plant protection products in Sweden that contain the active, and that may be used in areas covered by the ban, as long as the use is covered by the conditions of the product authorisation.

The tables are compiled by the Swedish Chemicals Agency. The completeness and correctness of the tables cannot be guaranteed at a given time, due to updating of the legislations. Hence, for the current and valid exemptions at any given time, we refer to the legislation mentioned above.

Table with chemical substances

Table with micro-organisms