Concerning the helpdesk biocides website

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• Publisher

Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety)

Direction des produits réglementés (Regulated products directorate)

253, avenue du général Leclerc

94 701 MAISONS-ALFORT cedex

Tel : +33 (0)1.49.77.13.50

Fax : +33 (0)1.49.77.26.26

Publication director: Marc MORTUREUX

Director of the department of information, communication and dialogue with society : Alima MARIE

Webmaster: Mélanie DAMERY

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• Web host : SGBD Product

The website has been developed avec the freeware Joomla! under GNU/GPL licence.

• Conditions of use

This website is designed to supply general information on biocidal products coordination, within the framework of the public information missions attributed to ANSES.

ANSES makes every effort to correct any mistakes identified and that information on the website reflects the state of current knowledge.

Information related to biocidal products coordination contained in the website is not an official opinion of ANSES expertise or a professional opinion.

• Use of personal data

Personal data received when an individual contacts the Agency using the online This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it are never shared with third parties. In application of the French law of 6 January 1978 concerning information technology and individual rights, individuals have the right to access, rectify or delete their personal data. Those wishing to exercise this right should contact the webmaster using our online This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• Use of data

The information found on the www.helpdesk-biocides.fr website is made available to the public. This information is protected by the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, by other international agreements and by French national laws on copyright and derived rights.

Any private, public or commercial use of information from helpdesk biocides website must identify ANSES as the source of the information used in addition, where applicable, to any partner sources. Accordingly, all public information taken from the helpdesk biocides website and copied, translated or reused in any form must be reproduced faithfully, without altering meaning, and the date of the most recent update must be mentioned.

All data or information taken from the helpdesk biocides website must therefore be reproduced in full, without any modification or addition, and without any associated advertisements. The data must be also be freely downloadable. The reproduction of data must not give the impression that ANSES participates in or endorses in any way the activities of the user, regardless of the form or media used.

ANSES's logo is a protected and registered trademark with limited authorised use. All requests for use of the logo must be submitted to ANSES using the site's online This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and express written authorisation from the Director General of ANSES is required in order to use it.

Person in charge of administrative access to all documents and questions related to the use of publicly available information: Olivier Spreux

• Creating links

All public and private websites, with the exception of those featuring controversial, pornographic, sectarian or xenophobic information, are authorised to create a link to helpdesk biocides home page or directly to information displayed by helpdesk biocides website without prior authorisation. However, pages from helpdesk biocides website may not be included within the pages of another website under any circumstances. Everything must clearly indicate to Internet users that they are on helpdesk biocides website and are able to browse freely therein.

In all other cases, and in particular:

• if helpdesk biocides website contents are to be integrated into the requesting website,
• if access to the pages containing the link to helpdesk biocides website is not free of charge,

a request for authorisation must be sent to ANSES via the helpdesk biocides online This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

ANSES reserves the right to request that any link be deleted which it considers non-compliant with its publishing policy or which may be detrimental to its image, without prejudice to any subsequent lawsuit which might be brought before a court of the competent jurisdiction.
For its part, ANSES only creates links to public websites and is in no way responsible for the links which are created to its own website.

Should you create a link to helpdesk biocides website, please inform us via the online This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• How to download our publications

Our documents are presented in PDF, Word, Excel and ZIP formats. The proper dedicated software is required in order to download them.

Documents in PDF format: Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 software (for MAC and PC). This software enables you to read .pdf documents. You can download it free of charge from the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com

Documents in ZIP format:Winzip 8.1 or Powerarchiver 8.6 (for PC).

Our documents are "zipped" so that you can download them quickly. Powerarchiver 6.005f is a free decompression file. You can download it from this address: http://cmetge.dixinet.com/test3.asp or use ZipIt 2.0 or Stuffit Expander 8.0 (for MACINTOSH)

If you are a Macintosh user, a different decompression software to Winzip (PC) must be downloaded: ZipIt 2.1 on http://www.maczipit.com/download.html or Stuffit Expander 9.0 on http://www.aladdinsys.com

Once downloaded, you can use these software programs by identifying the files that have just been downloaded in the location they were saved (C:/Program Files) and double-clicking on them to run the installation programme.

• Warning

In compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of the Constitution of France adopted on 4 October 1958, French is the official language of the French Republic. While many of the texts posted on this website are translated into English to facilitate the exchange of scientific information, they have originally been drafted in French; therefore only the French-language versions of these texts are to be regarded as authoritative.

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ANSES - Department of information, Communication and Dialogue with Society

Gaël Kerbaol, Margaux Lebrun-Fernandez, Bruno Le Hire de Fallois, Gil Lefauconnier, Christophe Lepetit, Alain Vigneron, Agence Parimage.

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