MIL-OSI Europe: Answer to a written question – The Commission’s stance on banning glue traps – E-002984/2024(ASW)

While glue traps are mentioned as non-chemical alternatives to the uses of anticoagulant rodenticides in Table 3 of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1532[1] and in Commission Implementing Decision 2024/816[2] (referred to as ‘glue boards’), their making available on the market and use are not covered by Regulation (EU) No 528/2012[3] on biocidal products nor by any other EU legal instrument.

Their regulation is, therefore, under the remit of each Member State. The Commission is not currently considering banning the use, sale or manufacture of glue traps.

• [1] http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2017/1532/oj
• [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2024/816/oj/eng
• [3] Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products (OJ L 167, 27.6.2012, p. 1; ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/528/oj).