Show use of biocides
As an employer/user, you are obliged to notify the Occupational Health and Safety Office in writing or electronically at least six weeks before the start of use,
a) if biocidal products are used in the company,
1. which are classified
a) as acutely toxic cat. 1, 2 or 3,
b) carcinogenic, germ cell mutagenic or toxic to reproduction Cat. 1A or 1B or
c) specifically target organ toxic Cat. 1 SE or RE
2. for which, in addition to the cases covered by number 1, the use category "trained professional user" has been specified in the authorization.
b) if the use of biocidal products is for the first time and the beginning of a renewed use of biocidal products after an interruption of more than one year.
Who should I contact?
Responsibility lies with the property owner. Private property owners must contact private pest controllers. Responsibility for municipal properties lies with the respective municipalities.
Responsibility lies with the district and the independent city if pests are detected,
This includes the necessary investigation and assessment of whether there is a justified risk in the specific case that pathogens and thus diseases may spread.
Responsible authorities
Samtgemeinde Spelle - Fachbereich Ordnungsverwaltung/Bürgerservice
Contact
- Spelle:
- Activity as a market trader or showman Admission
- Activity in a municipal cemetery Admission across borders as a gardener
- Activity in municipal cemetery Permanent gardener
- Activity in the municipal cemetery Temporary admission as gardener
- Advertisement Change of person in the case of legal entities
- Advertisement of a restaurant
- Agriculture: damage caused by game
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a postal vote
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for a travel trade license
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- Apply for permission to sell goods at trade fairs, festivals and special events.
- Applying for a permit for the commercial exhibition of persons
- Applying for permission for special use
- Auctioneering trade - apply for permission
- Authorization certificate
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Business re-registration
- Certificate of eligibility
- Certificate of good conduct extended
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of identity card due to change of address
- Change of residence
- Childcare services for seniors
- Children's Passport Extension
- Children's Passport Issue
- Children's Passport Status Query
- Children's passport change due to change of address
- Children's passport notification due to loss
- Children's passport notification due to relocation
- Children's passport report for theft
- Citizens' advice
- Confirmation of landlord
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Construction site: Issuing - of construction site orders under traffic law
- Day care
- Deregister trade
- Documents and copies: Certification
- EU funding
- Elections
- Employment at the municipal cemetery Permanent admission as a stonemason, sculptor or gardener
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- Event: Display
- Exemptions for the auctioning of perishable goods Admission to weekly markets
- Exemptions on Sundays and public holidays
- Explosive ordnance: elimination
- Express passport issue
- Findings from the background check Certificate
- Fischer test: Acceptance
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Gaming arcade license
- Have address and personal data changed
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- Helping the homeless
- Hiking Camp Display
- Holiday offers
- House number: Fixing
- ID card issue
- Identity card notification due to retrieval
- Identity card notification due to theft
- Identity card status query
- Information blocking device
- Information from the Central Trade Register Application
- Information in the population register Granting to landlords
- Information in the population register Provision of group information
- Information on the population register Provision to parties and voter groups
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance: Issue
- Limited traffic zones
- Lost property
- Markets and festivals
- Measures to ensure public safety and order
- Memorials
- Naturalization: Approval - for foreigners entitled to naturalization
- New passport issue due to change of name on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership
- Organization of a trade fair, exhibition or wholesale market: fixing
- Organization of a weekly market Determination
- Other games with the possibility of winning Permission in the traveling trade
- Other games with the possibility of winning: Permission
- Parking permit
- Passport Issuance of additional passports
- Passport change due to change of place of residence
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance for adults for the first time
- Passport issuance for frequent travelers
- Passport issuance new due to change of name upon marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Passport issuance new due to change of other data
- Passport issuance new due to expiry of validity
- Passport issuance provisionally
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport message for retrieval
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report for theft
- Passport status query
- Pawnbroking - Apply for a permit
- Place of residence Deregistration of main residence
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning Confirmation of the installation site
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning permission
- Population register information Issue
- Population register information Provision of self-disclosure
- Population register information issuance extended
- Provision of information from the population register for commercial purposes
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Register a business
- Registration certificate issued
- Reporting obligation
- Reporting the loss of your own ID card
- Request simple information from the population register
- Requesting a vehicle to be taken out of service
- Residence Deregistration
- Residence Deregistration for boatmen and seafarers
- Residence Deregistration of secondary residence
- Residence Re-registration Change of status
- Residence Registration as main residence
- Residence Registration as secondary residence
- Residence Registration for boatmen and seafarers
- Restaurant operation Approval early start of operations
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Show use of biocides
- Signatures: Certification
- Special obligation to register in accommodation establishments Registration
- Special reporting obligation in hospitals, homes and similar institutions Registration
- Store opening hours
- Tax Life Certificate: Issuance
- Temporary employment as a stonemason, sculptor or gardener at the municipal cemetery
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Traffic space restrictions: approval
- Transmission blocks in the registration register
- Travel trade card-exempt activity Authorization of exceptions for holding certain sales events
- Travel trade card-exempt activity Deregistration
- Travel trade card-exempt activity Re-registration
- View Gathering
- Work at the municipal cemetery Admission across borders as a stonemason, sculptor and gardener
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
Requirements
Biocidal products may only be used by persons who have the relevant expertise for the biocidal product in question. The requirements for expertise depend on the type of product, the applications for which the biocidal product is approved and the potential risk to humans and the environment.
Applications / forms
Identification document (copy of the identification document)
Copy of the certificate(s) of competence or other corresponding qualifications in accordance with Annex I Section 4.4 (2) of the Hazardous Substances Ordinance (GefStoffV) of all competent persons
If applicable, copy of the certificate(s) of attendance of the most recently attended further training event(s) in accordance with Annex I Section 4.4 (5) GefStoffV of all competent persons if certificates of competence are older than 6 years.
Which documents are required?
Identification document (copy of the identification document)
Copy of the certificate(s) of competence or other corresponding qualifications in accordance with Annex I Section 4.4 (2) of the Hazardous Substances Ordinance (GefStoffV) of all competent persons
If applicable, copy of the certificate(s) of attendance of the most recently attended further training event(s) in accordance with Annex I Section 4.4 (5) GefStoffV of all competent persons if certificates of competence are older than 6 years.
What are the fees?
Fees under state law: Ordinance on fees and expenses for official acts and services (General Fee Schedule-AllGO)
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
The notification must be made at least 6 weeks before the start of use.
What else should I know?
The determination of submitted arthropods (insects and arachnids) is carried out by the Pest Control Department of the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety for Lower Saxony offices and authorities on an administrative assistance basis. A fee is charged for all other senders, such as professional pest controllers or private individuals.
For biocidal products that could be used without specialist knowledge under the old version of the GefStoffV and that require specialist knowledge under the new version of the GefStoffV, the specialist knowledge requirement under Section 25 GefStoffV will only apply from July 28, 2025.
Legal basis
- Ordinance on rat control in the state of Lower Saxony (RattenVO)
- Infection Protection Act (IfSchG)
- § Section 15c Special requirements for the use of certain biocidal products
- Annex I Number 4.2.1 Hazardous Substances Ordinance
- Ordinance on responsibilities in the areas of occupational health and safety, immission control, explosives, genetic engineering and radiation protection law and other areas of law (ZustVO-Umwelt-Arbeitsschutz)
