Electronic registration of pesticides data should be implemented without delay

Dear Minister,

We are writing to you to express our acute concerns regarding the attempts of some Member States to postpone the digitisation of record-keeping for pesticide data by two years. It is essential that electronic record-keeping of pesticides is implemented without delay, from 1 January 2026, as determined by the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/564. Delaying digital record-keeping is unacceptable for the following reasons.

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