Registration of biocidal products under transitional provisions applies to products before EU approval of active substances for a given product-type. Biocidal products with substances supported in the EU-level Review Programme for the product-type must be registered under local laws (e.g., Slovakia’s Biocidal Product Act No. 319/2013, § 20, par. 1, b) to e)).
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Product type
| Number | Product type | Description |
| Main Group 1: Disinfectants | ||
1 |
Human hygiene | Biocidal products used for human hygiene purposes, applied on or in contact with human skin or scalps for the primary purpose of disinfecting the skin or scalp. |
2 |
Disinfectants and algaecides not intended for direct application to humans or animals. | Products used for the disinfection of surfaces, materials, equipment and furniture which are not used for direct contact with food or feeding stuffs. Usage areas include, inter alia, swimming pools aquariums, bathing and other waters, air conditioning systems; w’alls and floors in private, public and industrial areas and in other areas for professional activities. Air and water disinfection products, excluding consumption, along with chemical toilets, wastewater, hospital waste, and soil treatment. Goods used as algaecides for treatment of swimming pools, aquariums and other waters and for remedial treatment of construction materials. Products were once added to textiles, masks, and paints to create treated articles with disinfecting effects. |
3 |
Veterinary hygiene | Products used for veterinary hygiene purposes such as disinfectants, disinfecting soaps, oral or corporal hygiene products or with anti-microbial function. Products used to disinfect the materials and surfaces associated with the housing or transportation of animals. |
4 |
Food and feed area | Products used for the disinfection of equipment, containers, consumption utensils, surfaces or pipework associated with the production, transport, storage, or consumption of food or feed (including drinking water) for humans and animals. Products used to impregnate materials that may enter into contact with food. |
5 |
Drinking water | Products used for the disinfection of drinking water for both humans and animals. |
| Main Group 2: Preservatives | ||
6 |
Preservatives for products during storage | Products used for the preservation of manufactured products, other than foodstuffs, feeding stuffs cosmetics or medicinal products or medical devices by control of microbial deterioration to ensure their shelf life. Products used as preservatives for the storage or use of rodenticide, insecticide or other baits. |
7 |
Film preservatives | Products used for the preservation of films or coatings by the control of microbial deterioration or algal growth in order to protect the initial properties of the surface of materials or objects such as paints, plastics, sealants, wall adhesives, binders, papers, art works. |
8 |
Wood preservatives | Products used for the preservation of wood, from and including saw-mill stage, and wood products by the control of wood-destroying or wood-disfiguring organisms, including insects. This product type includes both preventative and curative products. |
9 |
Fibre, leather, rubber and polymerised materials preservatives | Products used for the preservation of fibrous or polymerised materials, such as leather, rubber or paper or textile products by the control of microbiological deterioration. These items hinder microbe settlement on surfaces, curtailing odour and providing added advantages against development. |
10 |
Construction material preservatives | Products used for the preservation of masonry, composite materials or other construction materials other than wood by the control of microbiological and algal attack. |
11 |
Preservatives for liquid-cooling and processing systems | Products used for the preservation of water and other liquids used in cooling and processing systems by the control of harmful organisms such as microbes, algae and mussels. Disinfection products for drinking or pool water aren’t part of this product category. |
12 |
Slimicides | Products used for the prevention or control of slime growth on materials, equipment and structures, used in industrial processes, e.g. on wood and paper pulp, and porous sand strata in oil extraction. |
13 |
Working or cutting fluid preservatives | Products to control microbial deterioration in fluids used for working or cutting metal, glass or other materials. |
| Main Group 3: Pest control | ||
14 |
Rodenticides | Products used for the control of mice, rats or other rodents by means other than repulsion or attraction. |
15 |
Avicides | Products used for the control of birds, by means other than repulsion or attraction. |
16 |
Molluscicides, vermicides and products to control other invertebrates | Products used for the control of molluscs, worms and invertebrates not covered by other product-types, by means other than repulsion or attraction. |
17 |
Piscicides | Products used for the control of fish, by means other than repulsion or attraction. |
18 |
Insecticides, acaricides and products to control other arthropods | Products used for the control of arthropods (e.g. insects, arachnids and crustaceans) by means other than repulsion or attraction. |
19 |
Repellents or attractants | Products used to control harmful organisms (invertebrates such as fleas, vertebrates such as birds, fish, rodents), by repelling or attracting, including those that are used for human or veterinary hygiene either directly on the skin or indirectly in the environment of humans or animals. |
20 |
Control of other vertebrates | Products used for the control of vertebrates other than those already covered by the other product-types of this main group, by means other than repulsion or attraction. |
| Main Group 4: Other biocidal products | ||
21 |
Antifouling products | Products used to control growth and settlement of fouling organisms (microbes and higher forms of plant and animal species) on vessels, aquaculture equipment or other structures used in water. |
22 |
Embalming or taxidermist fluids | Products used for the disinfection and preservation of human or animal corpses, or parts of thereof. |