How to read this definition
Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.
Can establish this activity
Included when supported
Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.
7 criteria
- 01Criterion
Include wholesalers and commercial distributors knowingly supplying biocidal products whose placement on the market or specified use is prohibited, not approved, cancelled, or severely restricted in the identified jurisdiction.
- 02Criterion
Include retailers that knowingly sell qualifying restricted biocidal products as a direct and material commercial activity.
- 03Criterion
Include importers and exporters acting as principal, title holder, or responsible commercial party for qualifying restricted biocidal products.
- 04Criterion
Include commercial suppliers of industrial, agricultural, professional, or consumer biocides subject to a specific current prohibition, non-approval, cancellation, severe restriction, or restricted-use decision.
- 05Criterion
Include marketing or sale for an agricultural, industrial, household, public-health, or other use that is specifically prohibited or severely restricted, even where another use of the same substance remains permitted.
- 06Criterion
Include online sellers and marketplaces only where they act as merchant, seller of record, payment controller, fulfiller, or knowing material facilitator for the qualifying product.
- 07Criterion
Include entities named in reliable enforcement, recall, seizure, customs, licence, or court records where the record establishes the qualifying product, conduct, jurisdiction, and effective legal status.
Does not establish this activity on its own
Excluded on this basis alone
These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.
6 criteria
- 01Criterion
Exclude manufacturing-only activity without a separate import, export, wholesale, retail, marketing, or distribution role.
- 02Criterion
Exclude distributors whose documented product portfolio consists only of approved or authorized biocidal products and uses outside the selected restriction.
- 03Criterion
Exclude diversified retailers and marketplaces where exposure is incidental, uncontrolled, or below the applicable client-policy materiality threshold, while preserving factual evidence where available.
- 04Criterion
Exclude distribution of medicines, medical devices, pharmaceutical antimicrobials, and healthcare products outside the applicable biocidal regime.
- 05Criterion
Exclude agricultural suppliers whose products are approved and whose current portfolio does not include a qualifying restricted biocide or use.
- 06Criterion
Exclude waste collection, treatment, destruction, recall, remediation, and disposal where the entity does not commercially sell or distribute the qualifying product.
Evidence and evaluation methodology
How sources, entity pathways, decisions, qualifiers, and review history are handled.
Map screens to a client policy
How to choose provider screens, document coverage, and decide what happens after an outcome.