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EU BPR authorities welcome new active suppliers!
The data protection hard stop has been extended. The window of opportunity to enter the EU Biocides market based on unprotected data has ended. In this blog we take stock of its consequences.
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Finger on the pulse of the BPR
As many of the European biocides community will meet each other at the Enhesa/Chemical Watch Biocides Symposium 2026 in Düsseldorf in Germany, we at Rules4Biocides thought it would be prudent to take stock on where we are with the EU BPR. And check the (steady?) beat of BPR approvals.
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GB BPR extension of data protection hard stop
The verdict is out! Update: end of November, the SI 2025 No. 1221 – The Biocidal Products (Data Protection Periods) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, has been published.
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Cost of BPR compliance part 2: the Biocidal Product (Family) dossier
After registration (and approval) of a biocidal active substance, it is time for step 2 of the 2-tiered BPR: approval of the Biocidal Product or Product Family. This step has its own costs.
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EU BPR Data Protection ‘hard stop’ by the end of 2025?
By the end of 2025, the data protection for existing active substances under the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR), is scheduled to expire. We give an analysis of its threats and opportunities.
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BPR Renewal
At least 550 days before the EU BPR approval end date, a dossier for renewal must be submitted to apply for continued use of the active substance in specific Product Types. In this blog we shed some light on the situation for 2026 and 2027.
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Update from the BPC-54 meeting
If you were expecting a decision on renewal of seven anticoagulant rodenticide substances for product-type 14 (rodenticides), we have to disappoint you. That is now expected later this year. The BPC did adopt a number of opinions related to other product types.
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Cost of BPR Compliance: The Active Substance dossier
The Biocidal Products Regulation is a two-tiered legislation and that makes it in principle more costly. In this R4B Academy article we focus on the Active Substance registration. In a next post we will dive into the Biocidal Product (family) costs.
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Update from the BPC-53 meeting
The Biocidal Product Committee meeting of November 2024 adopted opinions on a number of active substances.
