Cabinet Regulation No. 509 of 2012 on Placing on the Market of Plant Protection Products According to Regulation No. 1107/2009.

These regulations outline the procedures by which the State Plant Protection Service (the Service) registers chemical and microorganism-containing plant protection products and grants marketing authorizations within Latvia pursuant to EU Regulation No 1107/2009. When granting authorizations, the Service concurrently enters the product into the Plant Protection Products Register, unless the product is specifically intended for parallel trade, emergency situations, or research and development. Products are categorized into three registration classes based on their specific properties, hazards, and utilization parameters. Registration in the third class mandates that the product does not fall under specified hazardous classifications (such as acute oral, dermal, or inhalation toxicity, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, or reproductive toxicity) and meets strict user safety parameters without requiring personal protective equipment.
The text codifies operational timelines, administrative steps for modifying registration certificates upon a change of ownership, and prerequisites for authorizing parallel trade. For research and development authorizations, the Service is mandated to execute health and environmental risk assessments, establishing valid limits that cannot exceed 20 hectares per year for open-field trials or 2 hectares per year for covered areas, spanning a maximum validity period of two years.