The BPR is fully implemented in Norwegian law through the Norwegian Biocides Regulation. This means that all the general rules and requirements laid down in the BPR apply also in Norway.
The information on these pages mainly concerns national requirements that apply especially to biocidal products marketed in Norway, e.g. in the transitional phase prior to product authorisation and national restrictions for certain product types.
Some main principles of the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR):
- The BPR covers 22 biocidal product types, divided into four main groups: disinfectants, preservatives, pest control products and other biocidal products. All the product types are listed in Annex V of the BPR.
- In-situ generated biocides are also covered by the scope of the BPR.
- Active substances must be evaluated and approved on EU/EEA level, based on dossiers prepared by the industry with sufficient data on the substances and their use areas (product types). A review programme has been established based on the industry's notifications, with a list of active substances to be evaluated in different product types (see Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No. 1062/2014).
- Biocidal products whose active substances are approved for the relevant product type, must be authorised for use in the country they are to be marketed in. Several forms of product authorisation exist, e.g. national authorisation, mutual recognition, union authorisation and simplified authorisation.
- While an active substance is still being evaluated for use in a certain product type, the affected biocidal products can stay on the market subject to national rules in the individual countries (navigate the left menu for national requirements in Norway during this transitional phase).
- The BPR gives requirements for treated articles, i.e. products treated with or incorporating biocidal products.
- For the sake of fairly sharing the costs of data for active substance dossiers, all suppliers of active substances and biocidal products in the EU/EEA must have submitted either an active substance dossier or a letter of access to such a dossier, by 1 September 2015.
Read more about these and other issues concerning the BPR on the website of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) .
Biocidal products authorised in Norway
Lists of authorised biocidal products in Norway (only available in Norwegian). Other products may be allowed in accordance with the national transitional requirements.
On ECHAs webpage you can find authorised products in the EU/EEA countries, included in Norway.
If you choose Norway in the dropdown menu "Authorising Member State", you will get only the products authorised in Norway. You will, however, only find product names and not trade names.
Antifouling coatings in aquaculture
In the evaluation of antifouling coatings used in aquaculture, the following two documents have been drafted:
Fees
The fees for authorisation of products whose active substances are approved and for all categories of applications defined under BPR can be found in Appendix 1 to the Norwegian Biocides Regulation
The fee tables provide standard fees, but we are open to discussing lower fees for less complex applications with complete dossiers. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact us for an individual fee estimate for their product(s).
Questions and inquiries can be sent via the Can't find the answer to your question? at the bottom of this page.
An invoice will be sent upon receipt of the application.
Regarding products whose active substances are in the review programme, but not yet approved, no fees will be charged for biocidal product registration in the Norwegian Product Register.
However, all hazardous chemicals, i.e. chemical preparations requiring a hazard label according to the classification and labelling legislation and which are manufactured and/or placed on the market in Norway in quantities of 100 kg or more per year, have to be fully declared in the Product Register. A yearly control fee of 820 NOK per product will be charged for this declaration.