Products in this group are biocidal products used for human hygiene purposes.

Products used for the disinfection of air, surfaces, materials, equipment and furniture which are not used for direct food or feed contact in private, public and industrial areas, including hospitals, as well as products used as algaecides. Usage areas include, inter alia, swimming pools, aquariums, bathing and other waters; air-conditioning systems; walls and floors in health and other institutions; chemical toilets, waste water, hospital waste, soil or other substrates (in playgrounds).

Products in this group are biocidal products used for veterinary hygiene purposes including products used in areas in which animals are housed, kept or transported.

Products used for the disinfection of equipment, containers, consumption utensils, surfaces or pipework associated with the production, transport, storage or consumption of food, feed or drink (including drinking water) for humans and animals.

Products used for the disinfection of drinking water (for both humans and animals).

Products used for the preservation of manufactured products, other than foodstuffs or feedingstuffs, in containers by the control oof microbial deterioration to ensure their shelf life.

Products used for the preservation of films or coatings by the control of microbial deterioration in order to protect the initial properties of the surface of materials or objects such as paints, plastics, sealants, wall adhesives, binders, papers, art works.

Products used for the preservation of wood, from and including the saw-mill stage, or wood products by the control of wood-destroying or wood-disfiguring organisms. This product type includes both preventive and curative products.

Products used for the preservation of fibrous or polymerised materials, such as leather, rubber or paper or textile products and rubber by the control of microbiological deterioration.

Products used for preservation and remedial treatment of masonry or other construction materials other than wood by the control of microbiological and algal attack.

Products used for the preservation of water or other liquids used in cooling and processing systems by the control of harmful organisms such as microbes, algae and mussels.Products used for the preservation of drinking water are not included in this product type.

Products used for the prevention or control of slime growth on materials, equipment and structures, used in industrial processes, e.g. on wood and paper pulp, porous sand strata in oil extraction.

Products used for the preservation of metalworking fluids by the control of microbial deterioration.

Products used for the control of mice, rats or other rodents.

Products used for the control of birds.

Products used for the control of molluscs.

Products used for the control of fish; these products exclude products for the treatment of fish diseases.

Products used for the control of arthropods (e.g. insects, arachnids and crustaceans).

Products used to control harmful organisms (invertebrates such as fleas, vertebrates such as birds), by repelling or attracting, including those that are used for human or veterinary hygiene either directly or indirectly.

Products used for the preservation of food or feedstocks by the control of harmful organisms.

Products used to control the growth and settlement of fouling organisms (microbes and higher forms of plant or animal species) on vessels, aquaculture equipment or other structures used in water.

Products used for the disinfection and preservation of human or animal corpses, or parts thereof.

Products used for the control of vermin.