Written answers

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Biocidal Products

Photo of Alan DillonAlan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline for the approval of a biocidal product notification on products (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41368/20]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Biocidal products may only be marketed and used in Ireland once they are registered with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and are entered on the “Product Register” in accordance with Regulation 20 of Statutory Instrument 427 of 2013.

On 3 August 2020, applications for two biocidal products bearing the trade names referred to were received by my Department. Updates to the applications, that is, fully completed and signed application forms were received on 13 October 2020. The following day, officials from my Department acknowledged receipt of the applications and as these are air sanitising/misting products, further information/data in relation to the human health safety aspects of the products was requested from the applicant.

To date, this information/data has not been received. Also, a further product application from the same company was received by my Department on 13 October and this will be processed in due course. All applications received for registration of biocidal products are processed in chronological order.

You will appreciate that processing times for these applications are running longer than usual. However, in order to expedite the processing of outstanding applications, additional staff resources have been allocated to this area of activity. 

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