The EU Pesticides Database brings together active substance approvals, plant protection product authorisations and maximum residue levels under EU plant-protection law. Its operator states that it is provided for information only and has no legal value, and that the official information is published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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Not established The overall access position has not been established from an official source. It is recorded as unknown rather than assumed to be open.
Hosting
This registry is a distinct system hosted on the shared ec.europa.eu platform.
Assessment
Strengths
It assembles substance approvals, product authorisations and residue levels that otherwise sit across several legal instruments.
Its operator states its limits openly rather than leaving a reader to assume legal force.
It is the practical starting point for questions about what may be used on crops in the EU.
Limitations
It has no legal value. Its operator says so directly, and points to the Official Journal for the official information.
It is part aggregator: product authorisations are granted by member states, and the operator states that the information provided is their responsibility.
The application is client-rendered and was not exercised, so its search behaviour, coverage and export options were not observed.
It does not record chemicals registrations, biocidal product approvals or any authorisation outside plant-protection law, and an entry proves nothing about a product’s status under those regimes.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Finding whether an active substance is approved for plant protection use in the EU, and on what terms.
Looking up maximum residue levels for a substance and crop combination in one place.
Not recommended for
Any legal reliance. Its operator states the database is provided solely for information and has no legal value; the official information is in the Official Journal.
Chemicals registration questions. This records plant-protection approvals and authorisations, which is a different regime from chemicals registration.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Unknown
Developer tools
Yes
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
Plant protection product manufacturers, distributors and food producers
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
9 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
7 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
7 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
8 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
7 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
8 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
5 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
9 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
7 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.