Article / 18 NOV 2022
Source: www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-41009825.html

February 28 is the final date for professional users to use these products for treatment of fencing.

The marketing and selling of agricultural/equine fencing that has been treated with the preservative creosote will be banned from next April.

Meanwhile, by December 31 this year, stores, merchants, and importers must ensure that all stocks of creosote products are sold to professional end-users or else returned to their supplier.

February 28 is the final date for professional users to use these products for treatment of fencing.

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has noted that a regulation renewing the approval for the biocide creosote for vacuum pressure impregnation of wood used for railway sleepers and telecommunication poles only has been agreed at EU level.

This means that April 30 is the final date for selling timber treated with creosote except for railway sleepers and telecommunication poles.