Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Pesticider

Tolderlundsvej 5

5000 - Odense

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The harmonized classification of active substances, presented in the Annex III of Regulation 1185/2009 was used.

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According to the Order of pesticides, holders of biocide and plant protection product authorizations are obliged to report annual sales in kilograms or liters sold to the Danish market. Only products for which the company has an authorization from the Environmental Protection Agency should be included in the report. Danish authorisation holders must submit data electronically and foreign authorisations by email.

The sale on biocide and plant protection product has changed dramatically over the last years. A new pesticide tax was introduced in 2013, the tax increases the cost of the pesticides causing the highest load and motivates farmers to reduce their use and load.  The farmers bought pesticides to stock in 2012 and 2013, where the sale peaked. Therefore the sale for 2014 has been very low. For the period 2015-2020, the sale has increased again but is still to some extent affected by the stock piling in 2012 and 2013. For the year 2022 the sales incereased again due stockpilling, this was because of a noticed change in pesticide tax in 2023.

The data set comprises the annual sales of active substances contained in plant protection products placed on the national market for one calendar year according to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 as regards the list of active substances.

"Bekendtgørelse om bekæmpelsesmidler" (Executive order on biocides and plant protection products), BEK nr. 987 af 22 June 2022.

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The Ministry of Environment of Denmark.

The current national legislation ("Bekendtgørelse om bekæmpelsesmidler") came into force in 1980. 

All variables required under EU regulation are covered by national legislation.

There is no divergence.

The data are expressed in kilograms of active substances.

The classification of the active substances in plant protection products is annexed (Annex III) to Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning statistics on pesticides.

The active substances are classified according to chemical and functional similarity. Aggregation levels in descending order comprise: major groups, categories of products, chemical classes and active substances.

The statistics cover the wholesale and retail trade sector operating in placing plant protection products on the market.

All authorisation holders of plant protection products report the quantity of all plant protections products, that are placed on the market nationally (incl. import and export data).

This data collection comprises pesticide sales data based on the term 'placing on the market' as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market. The scope of the Regulation covers plant protection products and their active substances as can be seen from the key terms of the act immediately below:

Plant protection products: products consisting of or containing active substances, safeners or synergists, and intended for one of the following uses:

• protecting plants or plant products against all harmful organisms or preventing the action of such organisms, unless the main purpose of these products is considered to be for reasons of hygiene rather than for the protection of plants or plant products;
• influencing the life processes of plants, such as substances influencing their growth, other than as a nutrient;
• preserving plant products, in so far as such substances or products are not subject to special Community provisions on preservatives;
• destroying undesired plants or parts of plants, except algae unless the products are applied on soil or water to protect plants;
• checking or preventing undesired growth of plants, except algae.

Active substances: substances or micro-organisms, including viruses, having general or specific action against harmful organisms or on plants, parts of plants or plant products.

Quantity: implies kilograms of the active substances sold.

Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishes a common framework for the systematic production of Community statistics on the placing on the market and agricultural use of those pesticides which are plant protection products as defined in Article 2 (a)(i). The statistics shall apply to the annual amounts of pesticides active substances placed on the market in accordance with Annex I and the quantity of active substances shall be aggregated according to the list in Annex III (as amended).

Enterprise placing plant protection products on the market; authorisation holder or holder of parallel trade permits.

All enterprises placing plant protection products on the market; authorisation holders and holders of parallel trade permits.

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The entire territory of the country.

Faeroe Islands and Greenland.

2011-2022.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because it is not based on an index number of time series.

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Not applicable.

The authorisation holders of plant protection products annualy report the amount of products sold to the Danish market. The sold amount og plant protection products are registered in our product database.

Annually.

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency sends a letter or email to all Danish and foreign authorisation holders in December to request for information on the sales of plant protection and biocidal products in Denmark. Holders of biocide and plant protection product authorizations are obliged to report annual sales in kilograms or liters sold to the Danish market. Only products for which the company has an authorization from the Environmental Protection Agency can be included in the report. The Danish Environmental Protection Agency enclose a list of the products that are approved by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency. Foreign authorisation holders report their sold amounts by email using the enclosed list. Danish authorisation holders report theirs sold amounts of products, using a web based self-service solution. Reminders will be sent to all authorization holders that do not report their sales data. Authorization holders can be fined, if they do not report their sales report.

The data are being examined in order to identify possible mistakes - e.g. a wrong decimal separator or reporting unit resulting in unrealistic orders of magnitude compaired to previous reference periods.

Computation of aggregates: Active substances are aggregated according to the Eurostat excel file for reporting sales data (and Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009). No additional aggregation is carried out.

Conversion of unit: The product sale is registered in kg or liter. The sold amount of active substanses in kilogram is hereafter caclulated using the active substance concentration of each product (g/l or g/kg).

Imputation (=process of replacing missing data): Not relevant because of a very high level of sales being reported.

Weighting: Not relevant because of a very high level of sales being reported.

Outlier detection: Outliers are detected as described in 3.4. Herafter the relevant autorization holders are contacted in order to check for mistakes in their sales report.

Input data from different sources: Not applicable, only 1 data surce.

Not applicable.

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Not available.

Because the reporting of sales is mandatory for all authorisation holders, we believe the data to be very reliable.

the calculations are digitized, for the most part. Errors in product information and sold amount occurs, but can they can be corrected.

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Users are politicians, agribusiness, non govermental organizations and citizens.

The data are used to monitor the goals in the Danish Pesticide strategy.

There are no user satisfaction survey.

The data collection covers all active substances of plant protection products placed on the national market and the information of all authorisation holders.

Only few authorisation holders have not reported the sale, and this includes only authorisation holders with an assumed minor or no sale at all

100%.

We receive reliable information, from far more than 90% of the authorisation holders.

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See section 4.2.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is not based on samples, but covers the whole statistical population of authorisation holders and plant protection products placed on the national market.

Not applicable, as we are not sampling.

Not relevant, no estimations.

No frame population is used since all authorisation holders are asked for reporting their sale.

Not relevant, mandatory administrative data source.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics as the data stem from one source.

Administrative data source, see also section 3.4.

The amount of missing values is close to zero because of the obligatory sales reports.

Next to nothing.

Next to nothing.

Nothing identified.

Next to nothing.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is not based on estimations.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the reported data on plant protection products covers the whole year.

There is no revision policy.

However, there is a general procedure (not published) for handling revisions due to authorisation holders, which realize that they made mistakes in their sales reports. In that case, the data are revised, and the correction will be noted in the following pesticide sales report ("Bekæmpelsesmiddelstatistik") at the website.

See section 6.6.

In case of errors, we publish a "correction sheet" or it will be noted in th follow pesticide sales report ("Bekæmpelsesmiddelstatistik"). In either way it will be published on this website (Bekaempelsesmiddelstatistik).

Usually, we have a single correction each year, but the importance is usually limited.

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According to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, the data is published by Eurostat 15 months after the end of the reference year and the national quality report 20 months after the end of the reference year.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics as the data and national quality reports are only published once in a final result.

15 months after the end of the reference period for the data;

20 months after the end of the reference period for the national quality report.

According to the Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009, data must be transmitted until 30 December of the year t+1, and national quality reports until 31 March of the year t+2.

The data transmission was transmitted on time.

The quality report was transmitted on time

not applicable

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Data are collected on a country level (NUTS 0). They are not comparable on a regional level. The geographical comparability between countries is evaluated by Eurostat.

Not applicable, because there are no mirror flows in pesticide sales statistics.

The data reported to Eurostat since the first reference year (2011) is fully comparable over time. 

Comparable national sales data goes back to 1956.

Regarding the Eurostat sales data the number of comparable time series are 11.

Not relevant.

Not applicable for pesticide sales statistics, because the data collection is annual.

Not applicable, because it is not related to national accounts.

Not relevant.

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When we publish the annual report with pesticide sales statistics, we make a press releases in danish at this website (Nyheder).

Publications are available for each year since 1991. The title of the publications are: "Bekæmpelsesmiddelstatistik" (only available in Danish). The publications are avaliable at (Bekaempelsesmiddelstatistik).

The database with the numbers is not online.

Not applicable.

Aggregated data on active subtance level are published yearly in a pdf report ("Bekæmpelsesmiddelstatistik"), no matter how many products that contains the individual active substances. The data can be requested as an excel file via mail (pesticider@mst.dk), and the pdf report can be downloaded at: (Bekaempelsesmiddelstatistik).

None.

In each report ("Bekæmpelsesmiddelstatistik"), the methodology is described. The reports can be found at this website (Bekaempelsesmiddelstatistik).

We do not have a published Standard Operation Procedure for production of the annual pesticide salse report ("Bekæmpelsesmiddelstatistik")

Not requested.

Not requested.

• Time spent in the Environmental Protection Agency: 20% of one man year.
• Time spent for the authorisation holders:  1 – 7 hours.
• Costs for the Environmental Protection Agency time: DKK 200.000.
• Costs for the Environmental Protection Agency IT-solution: DKK 150.000.
• Costs for the authorisation holders to the Environmental Protection Agency: DKK 500 per products, in total to the Environmental Protection Agency: DKK 577.000.

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No legislations. There is no confidential data on active substance level.

Not applicable as there is no confidential data on active substance level.

No further comments.