CHAPTER I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Subject matter and purpose
Article 1
1
This Regulation lays down rules for the authorisation of plant protection products in commercial form and for their placing on the market, use and control within Great Britain.
2
This Regulation lays down both rules for the approval of active substances, safeners and synergists, which plant protection products contain or consist of, and rules for adjuvants and co-formulants.
3
The purpose of this Regulation is to ensure a high level of protection of both human and animal health and the environment and to improve the functioning of the ... market through the harmonisation of the rules on the placing on the market of plant protection products, while improving agricultural production.
4
The provisions of this Regulation are underpinned by the precautionary principle in order to ensure that active substances or products placed on the market do not adversely affect human or animal health or the environment. In particular, a competent authority shall not be prevented from applying the precautionary principle where there is scientific uncertainty as to the risks with regard to human or animal health or the environment posed by the plant protection products to be authorised in their constituent territory.
Word in Art. 1(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(c)(ii) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Word in Art. 1(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 1(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(c)(i) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 1(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a) (with Sch. 1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1376, regs. 1(4), 3(3)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)