Objective of the information

Provide the proposed Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) table. Good Agricultural Practice in the use of pesticides includes the officially recommended or nationally authorized uses of pesticides under actual conditions necessary for effective and reliable pest control.

The GAP table is based on the outcome of the efficacy testing of the pesticides, and is – among others – used as a basis for the directions for use, the establishment of maximum residue levels, and for human health and environmental risk assessment.

Circumstances in which the information is required

The information is always required

Substance

Information should be provided for the formulated product.

Typical information to be provided by the applicant

Generally, the following information is included in a GAP table:

• Crop (according to the Codex classification of food and animal feeds [Standard CAC/MISC 4]) and/or use situation
• Product name
• Type of use (e.g. field, greenhouse, indoor)
• Pest or group of pests
• Formulation type (according to CropLife International formulation codes) & concentration
• Application method (e.g. high volume spraying, granule drilling, low volume application) and kind of application (e.g. broadcast, aerial spraying, between plants – indicate type of equipment)
• Minimum and maximum number of applications (per year or per season) & minimum application interval.
• Minimum and maximum application rate per treatment (as kg a.i./hectolitre & litres of water/ha & kg a.i./ha)
• Minimum pre-harvest interval (PHI)

 An example of a GAP table, as recommended by OECD, can be found here

Guidelines

• None