If a product is under the scope of BPD and also under the national UK scheme for non-agricultural pesticides – the Control of Pesticides Regulations (COPR) – what do I need to do?
The BPD and the UK Biocidal Products Regulations (BPR) will eventually replace current national controls on biocidal products. Once the use of an active substance in a specific product type has been reviewed, products containing it will become controlled under BPD/BPR. In the UK, once an active substance has been reviewed for its use in, for example, wood preservation, then any wood preservative products containing it will become controlled under the BPR rather than the COPR, and any existing COPR approvals will no longer apply. However, until that point COPR still applies and product approval is required before the product is advertised, sold, supplied, stored or used.
