European Minor Uses EUMUDA Database
WELCOME to the European Minor Uses Database EUMUDA !
EUMUDA is an important tool to collect minor uses information and needs from European countries, to follow-up on these needs and to manage all projects.
This database plays a key role in finding chemical and/or non-chemical solutions for minor uses gaps, within an Integrated Pest Management framework.
What information can I find in EUMUDA ?
- A compiled list of minor uses needs from the European countries.
- An overview of ongoing projects and their status.
- A table of crop acreages.
- Reference lists of what are considered "minor uses" in the European countries, and minor uses useful links.
- A list of the national criteria to define a minor use or a minor crop.
- A database of the crop status in the European countries (minor/major crops database).
- The links to the national PPP databases.
- Additional useful information.
Information on individual projects are not entirely accessible for everybody. Rules for confidentiality and access rights have been implemented and can be found here.
The guide for users of EUMUDA is available and can be found here. Comments can be sent to the MUCF from our contact page.
The MUCF and its partners are continually working to improve the EUMUDA database and populate it with new information.
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Finland
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- San Marino
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Map Legend:
Northern Zone
Central Zone
Southern Zone
non-EU Member
Official definition of a minor use in the European Union under the Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 – Article 3(26):
'Minor use' means use of a plant protection product in a particular Member State on plants or plant products which are:(a) not widely grown in that Member State, or
(b) widely grown to meet an exceptional plant protection need.
By this definition, all uses on minor crops can be considered as minor uses, and a use on major crops can be considered as a minor use in specific conditions. No quantitative criteria are specified. Quantitative criteria and/or additional criteria might be used depending in the country.
Definition of a harmful organism (Reg.1107/2009; Art.3 (7)): any species, strain or biotype belonging to the animal kingdom or plant kingdom or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant product .
Austria
The authorisation applied for is considered of public interest.
Public interest means the intended application is in a crop that is important for Austria or can be carried out within the framework of regionally adapted forms of cultivation.
Belgium
- Cultivation area (no precise number defined).
- Production volume (no precise number defined).
- Average consumption (no precise number defined).
Cyprus
Czech Republic
- Cultivation area: less than 10 000 ha.
- Average consumption: less than 1.5 g/day/capita.
On a major crop, a use is considered minor if:
- The occurrence of the harmful organism requires a treatment less than once every three years and/or
- The occurrence of the harmful organism requires a treatment of less than 10 000 ha per year in the last 3 years and/or
- The product is authorised for organic farming.
Denmark
Estonia
- Cultivation area: less or equal to 1% of total utilised agricultural land.
- Production volume: less or equal to 1% of the total plant production volume.
- Average consumption: less than 7.5 g/day/capita.
Crops that are not on the major crop list are all listed as minor crops.
Finland
Cultivation area: less than 8 000 ha.
Crop type:
- Greenhouse crops
- Horticultural crops
- Autumn-sown oilseed crops
- Winter cereals apart from wheat and winter rye
All crops cultivated in greenhouse and horticultural crops are minor crops because of the minor growing area. Ground for this definition is the whole Finnish cultivation area (2 300 000 ha). . The grassland area is 800 000 ha, and the area for cereals is 1 000 000 ha. The remaining 500 000 ha includes all other crops and fallow fields.
Additionally, a list of major crops and uses and the criteria for a minor crop has been discussed in the Northern zone. Most of the Finnish major crops are the same as in other countries in the Nordic zone. Winter wheat and winter rye are major cereals sown in autumn in Finland, but other cereals sown in autumn are minor crops, as well as oilseed crops sown in autumn.
France
- Cultivation area: less than 20 000 ha.
- Production volume: less than 40 000 tonnes/year.
- Average consumption: less than 0.125 g/kg bw/day (roughly 8.85 g/day/capita based on an average weight of 70.8 kg in Europe).
On major crops, some uses are major, some uses are minor. The uses are considered as minor when they are of low importance, of limited surface compared to the cover of the culture or have a random character (frequency of appearance and importance). There are no quantitative criteria.
Germany
- Cultivation area: less than 10 000 ha.
- Production volume: less than 40 000 tonnes/year.
- Average consumption: less than 0.125 g/kg bw/day (roughly 8.85 g/day/capita based on an average weight of 70.8 kg in Europe).
On a major crop, a use is considered minor if the occurrence of the harmful organism requires a treatment of less than 10 000 ha per year.
The authorisation applied for is of public interest.
Public Interest (Art. 51 (2) c):
a) the pest must be worthy of control in the crop,
b) there must be a minor use gap (no sufficient practicable non-chemical or chemical alternatives, taking into account the implementation of appropriate resistance management - i.e. usually the presence of 2-4 (in general at least 3) non-cross-resistant active substances are closing the gap,
c) the estimated profit expectation for the manufacturing company.
The public interest is denied if sufficient or equivalent agents are available for use and/or the pest is not economically significant.
An application with the same active ingredient in the same indication (the active ingredient is already approved in the indication applied for) is not in of public interest.
The calculation of an economic benefit does not necessarily lead to the failure of the public interest but to the levying of charges. In case the urgency of the availability of the PPP for practice is demonstrated, the public interest criterion is considered to be met even if there is an expectation of profit.
Greece
Hungary
Cultivation area: less than 6 000 ha.
Crops which are (or in the near future are expectedly to be) cultivated on an area of less than 6 000 ha are considered minor. These crops are listed in the Hungarian decree No. 89/2004 FVM (under renewal process).
Ireland
Cultivation area: less than 10 000 ha.
Ireland does not have a legal definition of what constitutes a major or minor crop. However, if a crop is typically grown for a number of years where the area is in excess of 10 000 ha, the crop can be considered major. All other crops are considered minor.
All uses not listed in the list of major uses provided by Ireland.
Ireland does not have a legal definition of major and minor uses. There is only a list of pests for which control would be typically considered a major use in major crops.
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Norway
Poland
Portugal
- Cultivation area: less than 10 000 ha.
- Average consumption: less than 7.5 g/day/capita.
Minor use in a major crop:
- the harmful organism is localised (less than 5% of the total cultivated area for this crop) or is occasional (occurring 1 or 2 times in 5 years);
- There is no PPP available for the use, or the available solution is not sustainable
Romania
Slovakia
Cultivation area: less than 10 000 ha.
A minor crop is a crop grown on an area equal to or less than 10 000 ha. The value of the crop area is obtained from the agricultural statistics of the previous calendar year.
A 'very minor' crop is a crop grown on an area of less than 0.0035% or equal to 0.0035% of the total area of agricultural land. The value of the crop area and the total agricultural land are obtained from the agricultural statistics of the previous calendar year.
A major crop is a crop grown on an area of 10 000 ha or more, which is a priority for the country because of its economic and agronomic value.
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Cultivation area:
- Less than 1 000 ha for field crops
- Less than 500 ha for vegetables
- Less than 500 ha for fruits
- Major crop: strawberry, which comprises 56% of the cultivated small fruits (proposed criterion: more than 40% of the total area for small fruits)
- Minor crops: all other small fruit crops (criteria: less than 40% of the cultivated area for small fruits)
the Netherlands
Cultivation area:
- less than 5 000 ha for field crops
- less than 1 000 ha for greenhouse crops
Exceptional need criterion (evaluated case by case). The 'exceptional need' criterion is assessed if the crop production area is larger (more than 5 000 ha for field crops and more than 1 000 ha for greenhouse crops). These are uses in not usually widely grown crops, but which are needed only under exceptional circumstances. The applicant must provide verifiable information about the nature and scope of the use. Based on the information provided, a recommendation is made about whether the application concerns a minor use.
United Kingdom
Culture type: all crops which are not in the following categories are considered minor:
- Grassland
- Cereals: barley, forage maize, oats, wheat
- Oilseed rape
- Dry harvested field beans
- Sugar beet
- Potato