Details for Drone Treatment Recipes in Romania: Certification Standards Explored

Using drones to apply plant protection products is currently considered ‘aerial spraying’, as defined in Directive 2009/128/CE. Article 9 of the Directive prohibits plant protection products being sprayed by air, while also outlining specific exemptions. The proposal for a regulation on the sustainable use of pesticides took this legislative void into account. It provided a framework for using crewless aircraft to spray plant protection products and explicitly permitted the use of drones. The proposal was rejected because it sparked significant controversy.