The Belgian register of plant protection products sits inside FairGrow
Every morning FairGrow checks whether anything changed at Phytoweb, the database of the Belgian FPS Health, and pulls in what did. You see per crop and per pest which products are authorised in Belgium, with the dose, the pre-harvest interval and the date an authorisation ends. Without leafing through a register yourself.
Six questions you no longer have to look up
The register sits next to your plot, your crop and your logbook. You ask the question in the language of your crop, not in the language of a database.
May I use this product on this crop, against this pest?
You pick the crop and the pest, and you get the authorisations that cover that combination. Not the two separately: a product allowed on potato that works against late blight in some other use is not yet a product against late blight in potato.
Dose and waiting period included
For every use: the maximum dose from the register, the pre-harvest interval, how many applications are allowed and whether it is authorised under protection or outdoors.
A withdrawn authorisation does not vanish
You see when an authorisation was withdrawn and whether a use-up period is still running. That applies to 119 of them right now. So a spraying from three seasons ago remains traceable.
Your plot decides which register applies
A Belgian plot falls under Phytoweb, a Dutch one under Ctgb. That holds even if you use the app in French or German: the language is how you read, the plot is what counts.
Your spray logbook knows the products
The product list in your crop records comes from this same register. You type the first few letters and the rest is right, including the authorisation number an inspector will ask for.
Five countries, one way of working
Alongside Belgium, the register holds the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Finland. If you farm across the border, the answer changes with the plot and not with the app.
From the federal database to your plot
Four steps that repeat themselves every morning. You never notice them; you only notice that the answer is right.
Swipe the diagram sideways to see every step.
On the first of the month the complete state arrives, after that only the daily changes. A new authorisation is therefore in your account the same morning, and a withdrawn one changes colour that same morning.
Potato, pomme de terre, Kartoffel
Phytoweb names a crop in Dutch and French, Ctgb in Dutch, ANSES in French. We hang all of it on the EPPO code, the international key for plants and pests. That is why a Walloon grower typing pomme de terre lands on exactly the same authorisation as a colleague who says aardappel.
Potato
Wheat
Strawberry
Apple
Late blight
Aphids
Why a green code differs from a dark one
The dark cards carry the code of a single species. The lighter card carries a group code: 1APHIF is the whole aphid family. An authorisation against aphids then covers the species inside that family, and FairGrow works that out from the EPPO taxonomy rather than by comparing names. That is how a product against Aphididae also turns up for the green peach aphid, even when the label never mentions that name.
Not only whether you may, but how
Every use in the register is a block: this crop, this pest, this dose. What it says is taken literally from the source.
Five registers, the same question
Belgium was the fifth country to join. Every country has its own authority, its own language and its own authorisations, yet all five hang on the same EPPO codes. So you ask the same question everywhere and the answer adapts to the plot.
| Country | Authority | Authorised products | Matched to a code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | FPS Health, Phytoweb | 1,762 | 95% |
| Netherlands | Ctgb | 1,099 | 90% |
| France | ANSES, E-Phy | 1,764 | 97% |
| Switzerland | BLV | 1,723 | 96% |
| Finland | Tukes | 497 | 97% |
What this does and does not let you compare
It does: put the same crop in two countries side by side and see that a product is allowed to do something else across the border, or is not authorised there at all. If you hold plots on both sides, the answer simply follows the plot. It does not: turn these totals into a league table. Every country describes its authorisations differently, France for instance publishes no codes for pests, so a bigger number does not mean more choice. We count what the authority publishes; we do not make a contest of it.
Create an account and look into the register yourself
The Starter plan comes without obligation and asks for no payment details. You need an email address, nothing more. After that the five registers are there for you, next to the weather, the satellite imagery and your logbook.
What we do not do
A register that promises too much is more dangerous than one that occasionally admits it does not know.
We give no spraying advice
The dose you see is the maximum from the register. The label is what holds legally and may be stricter per crop, per growth stage or per application method. You remain responsible for what you spray.
Some descriptions get no code
The Belgian register uses collective terms such as ornamentals, any crop and empty storage buildings. No crop code exists for those, and inventing one would approve what nobody approved. You see those uses under the name the register gives them, with a warning instead of a tick.
We are not the register
Phytoweb remains the source and the only place that carries legal weight. What FairGrow shows is derived from it, meant to speed up your work. When in doubt, click through to the official database.
Source of the data: Phytoweb, FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. Published under CC BY 4.0. Data on this page as of 7 September 2026.
Who builds this
FairGrow belongs to EasyData in Apeldoorn, a software company that has been pulling data out of systems that would not talk to each other since 1999. That is exactly what happens here: we fetch the registers ourselves from the authorities, match them to the EPPO codes ourselves and maintain that ourselves. No middleman, no resold database, and our own servers sit in a Dutch data centre.
Who is behind FairGrow? →What growers ask us
How fresh is the list I am looking at?
The complete state arrives on the first of every month. On days when something changes, the change is in your account that same morning. When nothing changes, nothing arrives, and that is not a fault but a quiet day at the federal service.
Does this work if I use the app in French?
Yes. The language decides how you read, the plot decides which register applies. A Walloon plot falls under Phytoweb even in a German app, and a Dutch plot under Ctgb even in a French one.
Can I see what was allowed last season?
Withdrawn authorisations stay in place with the withdrawal date and the use-up period. That way you can still look up and account for a spraying from an earlier season, even if the product has since left the market.
What if my crop is not listed?
Then you see it as a warning and not as a rejection. Some descriptions in the register have no international code, mostly in ornamentals and on uncultivated ground. Tell us, and we will look at whether a sound match can be made.
Does this cost extra?
No, the register comes with your account. There is nothing to switch on and no separate module to buy.
Do you grow in Belgium?
Then the register is already waiting in your account. Shall we look together at what it means for your plots and your crops?
Look it up right away
They are all in FairGrow. Pick your field and your crop, and you see what is allowed right now: the dose, the pre-harvest interval, the authorisation number and how long the authorisation still runs.
- Search by EPPO code, crop name or brand name
- Refreshed every morning, withdrawn authorisations with their date
- What you pick goes into your spray record in one click
Looking things up is free on the Starter plan