Products involved

In principle, all biocidal products within all of the 23 product types specified in the Biocidal Products Directive require authorisation under the Directive.

Some products are temporarily exempted on the basis of the transitional arrangements.

Denmark has had a national authorisation system for many years for a number of biocides temporarily exempted under the Biocidal Products Directive. Such products require authorisation in Denmark irrespective of their active substances. Until their active substances have been included in Annex 1 to the Biocides Directive, these products will be subject to the transitional arrangements.

The evaluation concerns biocidal products within the following product-types/applications:

• fungi that attack wood
• harmful organisms in timber and woodwork
• algae
• slime-forming organisms in pulp
• vermin that infest pets
• harmful organisms in textiles
• insects, snails and mites
• water voles, moles, mice and rats
• certain repellents, for instance mosquito repellents.

A more detailed description of the old Danish authorisation area is given in the now historical Annex I to the Danish Act on chemical substances and products dating from 1996. Read the Act at retsinfo.dk

This scheme will continue to apply to individual products until a decision has been made in the EU about inclusion or non-inclusion of the active substance(s). The products must then be authorised pursuant to the new rules.