Ministère de l'agriculture et de la souveraineté alimentaire
(Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty)

SG / SSP / SDSAFA / BSVAE : Secrétariat général/Service de la statistique et de la prospective/Sous-direction des statistiques agricoles, forestières et agro-alimentaires/bureau des statistiques végétales, animales et environnementales

Central secretariat/Statistics and foresight Department/Agriculture, forestry and agri-food statistics branch/Plant, animal and environment statistics office

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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.

Arrêté du 30 avril 2010 modifiant l’arrêté du 22 mai 2009 portant création par l’Office national de l’eau et des milieux aquatiques d’un traitement automatisé d’informations nominatives et de données techniques associées dénommé «  Banque nationale des ventes réalisées par les distributeurs de produits phytosanitaires ».

Order of 30 April 2010 amending the order of 22 May 2009 on the creation by the National Office for Water and Aquatic Environments of an automated processing of nominative information and associated technical data called "National Bank of sales by distributors of plant protection products".

Find information at this website Legifrance.

Ministry of Ecology

2008

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

No divergence between national and EU regulation definitions.

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 active substances 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).

Active substances defined in Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 contained in plant protection products placed on the market

All enterprises placing plant protection products on the market.

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The entire territory of the country.

Overseas territories : French Guiana - Guadeloupe - Martinique - Réunion - Mayotte

2011 onwards

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

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Not applicable.

Processing of comprehensive administrative data from a national database of pesticide sales recorded in units of active substances (kilograms) by the French Biodiversity Office, an administration office under the supervision of the Ministry of Ecology.

Annually.

Use of administrative data : respondents fill in electronic database with quantity of each plant protection product (PPP) sold.

Using the active substance composition of PPP, the quantity of product sold is converted into the quantity of active substance sold (in kg).

Internal procedures are proceed by the French Biodiversity Office intended to measure the quality of the database. We conduct checkings after extractions, analyzing for each active substance, trends from one year to another, given each substance status (newly authorised, not approved, period of grace, ...). 

Each active substance of the data base is associated with the Eurostat code ; some active substances are removed from the scope of the pesticides sales statistics (biocide, some adjuvant...).
The quantities of each code are added together.

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

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Use of administrative data hold by the French Biodiversity Office which is in charge of quality database. the French Biodiversity Office is an administration office under the supervision of the Ministry of Ecology.

The data is from a mandatory declaration process which is controlled. Until 2010, mandatory declarations only concerned distributors selling certain categories of the most dangerous products (products classified T, T+, N or CMR), implying that certain substances may not have been declared or only have been partially declared. Since 2010, declaration has been compulsory for all distributors, regardless of the classification of the product. However, as the entry into force of this regulatory reform was progressive, and declaration also became mandatory in 2012 for distributors of seeds treated with plant protection products and farmers buying products from abroad, it can be assumed that all sales are declared since 2014. The declaration system covers sales to end-users (or purchases abroad by end-users), which prevents double counting linked to authorisation transfers or intermediaries in the sale chain from occurring.

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Several departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.

Several departments of the Ministry of ecology.

General public.

No particular observation.

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

100%.

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Not applicable (use of administrative data).

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

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

Not applicable (use of administrative data).

Not applicable (use of administrative data).

Not applicable (use of administrative data).

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

Not applicable (use of administrative data).

Not applicable (use of administrative data).

Not applicable (use of administrative data).

Not applicable (use of administrative data).

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0%.

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.

Data can be revised following checks on declarations during the 3 years following the year of sale. This 3-year recovery period is stipulated in Article L213-11-4 of the Environmental Code.

‘(only available in French)’ : Legifrance article.

Data can be revised following checks on declarations during the 3 years following the year of sale.
Data are fixed 3 years after the year of sale.

Not available.

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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.

No delay in the transmission of the data.

Quality report transmitted 2 days after the deadline due to an internal technical transmission problem.

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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.

Between 2011 and 2013, the categories of distributors of plant protection products subject to the declaration obligation have changed, which may partly explain the increase in quantities sold by a larger base of declarant.

There has been no change since 2013.

10 (2011-2020).

Not available.

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

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

Not available.

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No news release is currently scheduled.

Publications are available on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture Agreste‘(only available in French)’.

and on the website of the Ministry of ecology ‘(only available in French)’.

and on the website of the directory of public water data.

Data tables (.csv files) can be downloaded from the site : Data.

Since january 2022, data tables can be consulted on line : Ventes produits phytopharmaceutiques.

Not available.

Microdata can be obtained after request from specific users (public offices, researchers) via Ventes produits phytopharmaceutiques.

No other documents.

Methodological note are provided and published on the different websites ‘(only available in French)’ :

• Agreste agriculture.
• SSM ecologie.
• Data OFB.

A methodological document accompanies each online publishing of data :

• on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture Agreste‘(only available in French)’.
• on the website of the Ministry of ecology ‘(only available in French)’.
• on the website of the Directory of public water data.

Not requested.

Not requested.

Not available.

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Data is not confidential.

According to Article L124-7 of the Environment Code, public authorities shall take measures to enable the public to know their rights of access to information relating to the environment that they hold, and shall ensure that the public can access the information sought.

‘(only available in French)’ : Legifrance article.

There is no confidentiality data treatment.

No comment.