Key Benefits:
Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Rural and Land Management,
In view of the rural and maritime fishing code, including articles R. 254-8 to R. 254-14;
In view of the Order of October 21, 2011 on the enabling conditions of training organizations provided for in Article R. 254-14 of the Rural and Maritime Fisheries Code,
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It is created an individual certificate for professional activity "advisory to the use of phytopharmaceutical products".
The conditions for obtaining this certificate shall be established in accordance with the provisions of this Order.
The certificate referred to in section 1 may be obtained:
1° Following training;
2° Following a training that includes the verification of control of the regulation of phytopharmaceutical products. This verification is performed as a test that lasts forty minutes and includes twenty questions. To pass the test, twelve just answers on the twenty questions are required; applicants who do not validate these twelve responses follow a deepening training on applied regulations;
3° As a result of the success of an hour-long test with thirty questions related to the training program. To pass the test, twenty-five answers just on the thirty questions are required. Candidates who have not passed the test cannot re-enrol. They shall prepare the certificate in accordance with the provisions of 1° of this article;
4° A degree or title obtained in the five years preceding the application date. The list is set out in Appendix I to this Order.
The themes of the program, the duration of the training and the implementation protocol for each of the terms and conditions of access to the certificate are specified in Appendix II to this Order.
Training and testing is carried out in an authorized training organization and is listed in accordance with the provisions of the Enabling Conditions for Training Organisms under section R. 254-14 of the aforementioned Rural and Maritime Fisheries Code.
Candidates who are absent from all or part of the training may not be issued from a successful certificate to the certificate.
At the end of its validity, the certificate shall be renewed in terms of access identical to those set out in Article 2 of this Order. The program themes for the renewal and duration of training and the implementation protocol for each of the terms and conditions of access to the certificate are specified in Appendix III.
The Director General of Education and Research, the Regional Directors of Food, Agriculture and Forestry, the Directors of Food, Agriculture and Forestry are responsible, each with respect to it, for the execution of this Order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
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DIPLOYMENT AND TITIES REQUIRED FOR THE INDIVIDUALS OF THE CERTIFICATE FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY "ADVICE TO THE USE OF PHYTOPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS"
The following diplomas and titles must have been obtained in the five years prior to the application date.
Diplomas and titles of agricultural technical education
issued by the Ministry of Agriculture
Patent of agricultural superior technician,
Level III degree, in the following options
Agronomy: plant productions.
Landscaping.
Analysis and conduct of operating systems.
Development of agriculture in hot regions.
Agricultural equipment engineering.
Water management and control, speciality "Water control in agriculture and planning".
Horticulture production.
Animal production.
Technico-commercial, agri-food speciality.
Technico-commercial, specialty "worms of ornament".
Plant technologies, agribusiness and culture systems speciality.
Plant technologies, speciality "increasing seed plants and technologies".
Plant technologies, speciality "culture protection".
Viticulture-oenology.
Certificate of specialization in the following options
Complementing a level III degree:
― technical-commercial manager: agro-fuels;
― consulting technician in organic farming.
Engineering titles issued by the following schools
Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro).
Institut national supérieur des sciences agronomiques, de l'alimentation et de l'environnement (AgroSup Dijon).
Purpan engineering school.
National School of Agricultural Engineering in Bordeaux.
École nationale du génie de l'eau et de l'environnement de Strasbourg.
Ecole nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse.
Ecole nationale supérieure d'agronomie et des industries alimentaire de Nancy.
Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles.
Ecole supérieure d'agriculture d'Angers.
Graduate School of Engineers and Technicians for Agriculture (Rouen).
Institute of Higher Education and Research in Food, Animal Health, Agricultural Sciences and the Environment (Vet Agro Sup).
Institut des sciences et industries du vivre et de l'environnement (AgroParisTech).
Overseas technical institute (special "culture protection").
Institut polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais.
Institut supérieur d'agriculture de Lille.
Institut supérieur d'agriculture et d'agroalimentaire Rhône-Alpes.
Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et du paysage (Agrocampus Ouest).
Diplomas from universities
University degree in applied biology technology,
agronomy option, level III
Professional license, level II
Vocational license whose specialty is:
- agronomy;
landscape planning;
animal productions;
- plant productions.
Professional license in the specialty "trade, management and distribution of agricultural products, horticultural".
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PROGRAMME, TRAINING PERFORMANCE AND PROTOCOL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ACCESS MODALITIES TO THE INDIVIDENT CERTIFICATE FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY "ADVICE TO THE USE OF PHYTOPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS"
I. Programme
Regulatory theme
French regulatory framework: Grenelle 1 and 2 laws and related measures: Ecophyto Plan 2018.
Definition of phytopharmaceutical products.
Authorized products and illegal products. – Authorization to market.
Authorized and unauthorized use of products.
Regulations related to the collection and treatment of waste and effluent.
Rules specific to classified facilities.
Regulation respecting the liability of the applicator.
Regulation on liability to third parties.
Regulation respecting product classification and storage.
Legislation related to corporate approval.
Regulatory requirements for the registration and presence of documents at the place of sale or storage.
Health risk prevention theme
Risks related to the use of phytopharmaceuticals
Hazardous products:
– dangers of the product;
- penetration path;
Acute poisoning and chronic poisoning;
becoming products in the body: storage or disposal.
Hazard exposure situations:
– exposure situations: before, during and after application;
direct and indirect contact;
– factors that promote and aggravate penetration.
Categories of sensitive populations.
Action to be taken
to reduce risks to human beings
Estimated health risks for operators and users.
Main preventive measures.
Main protection measures: IPR port, compliance with pre-harvest employment deadline...
Principles of use in spaces involving users.
Key directives and regulations.
Conduct to be held in case of acute or accident poisoning
Main symptoms of poisoning.
Drives to be held in the event of an accident.
First aid alert measures: emergency numbers, accident reports.
Report of the accident at Phyt' attitude (toxicovigilance network).
Environmental risk prevention theme
Environmental risks
and main routes of contamination
Environmental hazard:
- impacts on the environment, on non-ciable plants, useful insects, wildlife and biodiversity;
– knowledge of the dangers of the product.
Hazard exposure situations:
types of pollution: diffuse or point-time;
becoming phytopharmaceutical products in the environment after treatment;
- situations of contamination before, during and after treatment;
- factors that promote and aggravate contamination;
– risk to the area to be addressed during an intervention.
Risk prevention
Zoning (protected area, capture perimeter...).
Strategies selected according to the spaces, their nature, their use (zonages in differentiated management, weeding plan...).
Practices to limit the dispersion of phytopharmaceutical products in the environment during transport.
Practices and facilities to limit the dispersion of phytopharmaceutical products in the environment during the storage and processing of residues.
Practices and facilities to limit the dispersion of phytopharmaceutical products in the environment during handling.
Practices, facilities and equipment to limit the dispersion of phytopharmaceutical products in the environment during spreading.
Traceability throughout the process.
Theme for limiting appeal
phytopharmaceuticals
Comparative evaluation of product use
phytopharmaceuticals and alternative techniques
Biocontrol methods and products using natural mechanisms.
Integrated control techniques: biological control, physical control, biotechnical control, genetics, etc.
Culture systems and technical itineraries reducing the risk of bioaggressions and limiting the use of phytopharmaceutical products, techniques to prevent the occurrence of resistance to phytopharmaceutical products.
Strategies for the management of plant health
Evaluation of the need to intervene: identification of aggressors and risk assessment.
Raising of interventions, proposal for intervention without use of phytopharmaceutical products.
Formulation of recommendations to choose and combine different means of control.
Conseil pour l'adaptation des modalities d'intervention aux conditions de milieu et aux objectifs fixées pour réduction les risques.
Organization of the day before on technological and regulatory developments, health care.
Methods for decision-making and choice.
Inventory management aid tools/product purchase.
Tools for evaluating systems or control practices.
II. - Duration and hourly organization of training in terms of obtaining
| The Regulation | 7 a.m. | 3 h | 4 h |
| The Health risk prevention | 4 h | 4 h | |
| The Environmental risk prevention | 7 a.m. | 4 h | 3 h |
| The Preconization to limit the use of phytopharmaceutical products | 10 a.m. | 10 a.m. | |
III. - Protocol for the Implementation of Access Procedures
The protocol for the implementation of the terms of access to the certificate "Council for the Use of Phytopharmaceutical Products" is available at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Rural and Land Use Planning (DGER), 1 ter, Lowendal Avenue, 75007 Paris, or at www.chlorofil.fr.
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PROGRAMME, DEVISION OF TRAINING AND PROTOCOL OF IMPLEMENTATION OF ACCESS MODALITIES FOR THE RENEWING OF THE INDIVIDENT CERTIFICATE FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY "ADVICE TO THE USE OF PHYTOPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS"
I. - Program for the renewal of the individual certificate
Theme evolution and updating of general regulations
and related to professional activity
Theme evolution and updating of prevention
health risks
Risks related to the use of phytopharmaceutical products.
Measures to reduce risks to human beings.
Theme evolution and updating of prevention
risks to the environment
Environmental hazards and main routes of contamination.
Risk prevention.
Theme evolution and updating
to limit the use of phytopharmaceutical products
Comparative evaluation of the use of alternative phytopharmaceuticals and techniques.
Strategies for plant health management.
II. - Duration and hourly organization of the training in terms of obtaining. ―
Individual certificate renewal
| The Evolution and updating of general regulation and occupational activity | 4 h | 4 h | |
| The Evolution and updating of health risk prevention | 3 h | 3 h | |
| The Evolution and updating of risk prevention for the environment | 3 h | | 3 h |
| The Evolution and updating of preconizations to limit the use of phytopharmaceutical products | 4 h | | 4 h |
III. - Protocol for the renewal of the individual certificate
The protocol for the implementation of the terms of access to the certificate "Council for the Use of Phytopharmaceutical Products" is available at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Rural and Land Use Planning (DGER), 1 ter, Lowendal Avenue, 75007 Paris, or at www.chlorofil.fr.
Done on 21 October 2011.
For the Minister and by delegation:
The Director General of Education
and research,
Mr. Zalay
