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Dear Commissioner Várhelyi, Dear Commissioner Hansen, Dear Commission Dombrovskis,
We are writing to you to express our acute concerns regarding the attempts of some Member States to postpone the digitisation of record-keeping for pesticide data by two years. It is essential that electronic record-keeping of pesticides is implemented without delay, from 1 January 2026, as determined by the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/564. Delaying digital record-keeping is unacceptable for the following reasons:
- Since 2009, Regulation (EC) 1107/2009 obliges professional users to keep records of pesticides used (name, time, dose of application, area and crop) for at least 3 years, and to provide this information to competent authorities (on request of the competent authorities).
- The Council expressed to the Commission the need for electronic record keeping to facilitate the annual collection of data on the use of pesticides. This demand was formulated in the framework of the negotiations on Regulation 2022/2379 on statistics on agricultural input and output (SAIO) in June 2022.