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Decision on the appointment for conducting efficiency tests of plant protection products (PPP)
A contractor must obtain the decision on the appointment for conducting efficiency test of PPP prior to the implementation of the activity.
A contractor must also acquire a certificate on the fulfilment of the conditions of good experimental practice for the official recognition of efficiency test for the registration of PPP: These conditions are examined and confirmed by the competent authority within the scope of appointment and the issue of the decision.
An application for the appointment is lodged with the competent authority.
The committee establishes the fulfilment of conditions by reviewing the documentation and the on-site inspection. The competent authority issues a decision on the appointment for five years and enters the contractor in the contractors' list.
A contractor must provide expert staff, appropriate technical equipment, facilities and agricultural areas. A contractor must have a suitable reference and provide the incompatibility of interests.
Conditions
These terms apply to activity Implementation of efficiency tests of plant protection products (PPP)
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Applicants who wish to pursue this activity must register the business activity, and have the appropriate legal status.
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The contractor of the PPP efficiency tests must employ the staff with education required by the systematisation of the field of pursued work (e.g. in the field of agriculture, mechanical engineering, biology, chemistry). The person responsible to conduct the test and the person for internal quality control of all tasks, who is not also the person responsible for conducting tests, must be determined.
Evidence
The list of employees and leased labour force with the data on their education and work experience and scheme of responsibility of individual persons for individual tasks (hierarchy).
Legal basis
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A person responsible for conducting tests must have suitable education, work experience and is not at the same time a person for internal quality control.
A person responsible for conducting tests takes care of introduction, implementation and supplementing of PPP.
This person must have a good knowledge of EPPO guidelines and take care for the preparation of report on the conducted tests.
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A person responsible for the internal quality control must have suitable education and at the same time not a person responsible for conducting tests.
A person is responsible for conducting internal quality control of all tasks related to the implementation of efficiency tests.
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The contractor of PPP efficiency tests must have appropriate references in the field of plant health protection and in the field of PPP, such as: preliminary tests, efficiency testing, data on the occurrence or potential occurrence of resistance, impact on the quality and quantity of treated plants or plant products, phytotoxicity of target plants (different varieties) or plant products, monitoring of unwanted or unplanned side effects.
Evidence
Reports on the conducted activities in the field of plant health protection and in the field of PPP for the past five years.
Legal basis
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The contractor of PPP efficiency test must have appropriate facilities according to the activity he pursues.
Evidence
List and description of facilities (offices, PPP storage facilities, storage facilities for crops, storage facilities for machinery, archive, laboratories, greenhouses, etc.)
Legal basis
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The contractor of PPP efficiency tests must own or lease the agricultural land. As the evidence, the list of plots is attached to the application where the tests will be carried out with the address/local name, cadastral municipality, lot number, surface and ownership or lease. A certified photocopy of the lease contract is required for the leased plots. The documentation on the leased plots may be subsequently supplemented with new evidence on the lease.
Evidence
The list of plots where the tests are to be conducted – For the leased land the certified copy of the lease contract
Legal basis
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The contractor of PPP efficiency test must have an adequate machinery and equipment, such as the machines for land cultivation, sowing, PPP application, harvesting the crops, equipment for measurement, weighing and analyses, weather stations, driers and other.
Evidence
List of equipment requiring regular maintenance, testing and calibration
Legal basis
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The course of all tasks related to the implementation of tests must be written down in the SOP form in accordance with the international standards (e.g. ISO standards). All tasks must be conducted in accordance with the written procedures.
Evidence
standard operating procedure for SOP writing and maintenance or supplementation: copy; standard operating procedure for PPP management: copy; standard operating procedure for planning and performance of test and recording and archiving all the data from the tests: copy; list of all SOP used by the applicant in relation to the performance of tests: copy
Legal basis
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To plan and implement the tests, an organisation for conducting efficiency tests must consistently apply the latest published guidelines of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation (EPPO guidelines) which are available at the Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Food Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection and stated in the Attachment 1 of the Rules on gaining the certificate of fulfilment of conditions to carry out good experimental practice.
The development of these guidelines must be monitored and the latest published guidelines taken into account in practice.
If an EPPO guideline is not available for an individual experiment, other internationally recognised methods or methods comparable to EPPO guidelines are used.
Evidence
Statement of further types of experiments “efficiency information”
preliminary tests,
efficiency testing,
data on the occurrence or potential occurrence of resistance,
impact on the quality and quantity of treated plants or plant products,
phytotoxicity for target plants (various varieties) or plant products,
monitoring of unwanted or unplanned side effects,
an example of one of the latest experiments from every type of experiments from the preceding point with the plan, protocol, implementation appertaining received unprocessed data,
report on the experiment from the preceding point drawn up according to the latest published EPPO guidelines,
for the extension of the certificate: a list of all conducted experiments used in the registration procedure for PPP in the last two years.
Legal basis
Procedures
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Decision on the appointment for conducting efficiency tests of plant protection products (PPP)
Attachments
- Statement of experiments “efficiency information”
- Example of one of the latest experiments from each type of experiments referred to in the previous item with a plan, protocol, implementation and pertaining unprocessed data obtained
- Report on the experiment referred to in the previous item prepared in line with the Rules on gaining the certificate of fulfilment of conditions to carry out good experimental practice
- List of all experiments carried out that were used in the PPP registration procedure in the last two years
- Evidence of payment of administrative fee
Procedure costs
Administrative fee for issuing a decision: 22.66 €
Legal protection
Form of redress: Complaint
Competent Authority: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food
Renewal term
If the contractor still wants to pursue the activity of efficiency testing of PPP after the period of five years, he must lodge another application for the extension of the decision with the competent authority. With it he submits the same attachments as for the first issue of the decision, but without an example of a test.
Renewal term: 5 years,