Professional User Training for Pesticide Spraying

In plain language

If you use a drone to spray pesticides, you and your operational crew are considered professional users and must complete the official pesticide safety training required by the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive.

Requirement as structured

UAS operators and personnel using UAS to spray pesticides must undergo professional user training in accordance with Article 5 and Annex 1 of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUP) Directive.

Original regulatory text

the UAS operator that uses UAS to spray pesticides shall be considered a “professional user” under the SUP Directive... According to Art. 5 of the SUP Directive the professional users (i.e. the UAS operator`s personnel) shall go through a training the elements of which are listed in Annex 1 to the SUP Directive.

Applies when

operation

spraying