Introduction paper

With the Frame Work Directive (FWD) each Member State (MS) is obliged to appoint a responsible body for implementing and running an inspection scheme for all PAE and shall inform the Commission thereof. This responsible bodies issues (or let grant on behalf of) the certificates for the inspected and approved sprayers. This certificate should exist of a (if possible) harmonised official test report and a label on the sprayer. This label shall be placed on a clearly visible place on the machine to make an easy check on the validity of the certificate possible. Both the test report and the label shall be unique and make clearly visible when the inspection expires.

In the FWD the mutual recognition of inspections between MS is organised. For realising a proper system of mutual recognition it is very important that the sprayer-inspection schemes in the different MS have an equal quality. Important is this case is a uniform execution of the inspections, within a MS but also in the different MS. Therefore a EU wide quality assurance system would be preferable.

Mutual recognition between the MS will only be possible if the expiring date of the last issued certificate of a sprayer is equal of shorter than the time period of the inspection interval applicable in its own territory and when each MS can be sure that the inspected sprayer fully fore fill the requirements in article 4 of paragraph 8 of the FWD. In paragraph 6 of the Framework Directive Sustainable use of Pesticides (FWD) is explained how the inspections should be organised in each Member State (MS) and are MS endeavoured to recognise certificates of inspected sprayers issued in other MS.