A Total of 113 Pesticides Banned in Serbia from Today

The irregular use of plant protection products is increasingly the reason for shipments of fruit and vegetables being returned within the European Union states, whose system for the control of food safety Serbia belongs to as well. From today, the use of 113 plant protection products is banned in Serbia.

The products have been withdrawn because they contain 17 active substances which were recently banned in the European Union, and which mustn’t be used in Serbia either from today, because the local regulations are nearly fully harmonized with the European ones.

The list of the banned products can be seen on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the director of the Plant Protection Directorate, Nebojsa Milosavljevic, said for RTS that they had been banned 18 months before and that the deadline by which they could be used, that is, by which the supplies could be spent, had now expired.

He points out that the remaining supplies should be disposed of in line with the law, that is, handed over to those in charge of collecting that waste, which is then sent for safe destruction.

In four years, 50 active substances have been banned, and penalties are proscribed for their use.

Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, šumarstva i vodoprivrede Republike Srbije

Uprava za zaštitu bilja

Ministry of Agriculture

Plant Protection Directorate

Nebojsa Milosavljevic

banned pesticides in Serbia