Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Independent)
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574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for a PCS number by a company (details supplied). [35945/21]

Charlie 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. The process for registering biocidal products aims to ensure that the making available on the Irish market of such products does not result in harmful effects on human or animal health or unacceptable effects on the environment.

All applications received for registration of biocide products types are processed in chronological order.

When an application for a biocide notification is submitted to the Pesticide Controls Division of the Department and the application fee is paid, the application is processed as soon as possible and typically within 12 weeks.

In relation to the applications mentioned, the applications and fees were received on 10^thMay 2021 and 30^thJune 2021.

Officials from the Pesticide Controls Division will be in direct contact with the applicant as required.