Biocides Submission Manuals

Biocide Submission Manuals (BSM)

The BSM is a series of technical guidance, application instructions and ECHA process manuals for active substance and biocidal product procedures in the European Union. The aim of the Biocides Submission Manual (BSM) series is to provide industry users with detailed and illustrative technical assistance.

Technical guides include information on:

  • IUCLID
  • R4BP
  • SPC Editor

Application instructions include information on:

  • Active substances
  • Technical equivalence and chemical similarity
  • National, simplified and union authorisations
  • Biocidal product families

Process manuals include information on:

  • Invoicing in the R4BP
  • Confidentiality requests

Guidance on Biocide Submission Manual is available at: https://echa.europa.eu/support/dossier-submission-tools/r4bp/biocides-submission-manuals