Pesticide sales

"The data set comprises the annual sales of active substances contained in plant protection products placed on the market from reference year 2011 onwards, according to Regulation (EC) No 1185/2009 as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/269 of 16 February 2017 as regards the list of active substances. Eurostat disseminates the highest aggregation level, also called major groups in the Harmonised classification of substances. They are the following:

F - Fungicides and bactericides (excluding fungicides of microbiological or botanical origin);
H - Herbicides, haulm destructors and moss killers;
I - Insecticides and acaricides (excluding insecticides of microbiological or botanical origin);
M - Molluscicides;
PGR - Plant growth regulators; and
ZR - Other plant protection products.
Data extracted on this level will give the user the best representation of total pesticide sales.

Data on sales of pesticides cover agricultural and non-agricultural uses.

The data are also presented on disaggregated levels to provide more details. The second aggregation level is categories of products (e.g. F01 - Inorganic fungicides, F02 - Fungicides based on carbamates and dithiocarbamates, etc.). The third is chemical classes (e.g. F01_01 - Copper compounds, F01_02 - Inorganic sulphur, etc.). To date, these data are not yet disseminated for all reference years and countries.

The disseminated data exclude micro-biological substances because of the difficulties to convert colony-forming unit (CFU) into kilogram (kg), the unit of dissemination."