Canary has only two seasons for the mandatory inspection of spraying equipment.

The legislation requires that all equipment must be inspected before 26 November of 2016.

This standard is a new bureaucratic and economic burden for farmers.

Before the 26 November of 2016, all teams must have been inspected at least once in a Technical Inspection Station Application Equipment Plant Protection Products (ITEAF).

Only twelve Autonomous Communities have developed their own rules, It is not the Canary Islands, so the application of this new bureaucratic burden, is being dispar. In the case of Andalusia first it was decided that they were the ITV stations which conduct inspection, but following an appeal to the Supreme Court, they had to leave to free competition management inspections.

This new imposition of Brussels and changes in the management of inspections has caused a considerable delay in the implementation of this requirement.

This delay has caused numerous incidents and disadvantages to a sector already quite 'bleeding'. The small number of reputable companies (in the Canary Islands there are only two in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife), addition inexpert, It is joined by a profound ignorance of farmers.

Since some agricultural organizations consider that this situation may cause not allow time to inspect all the machinery available, it does not perform the same protocol by all companies and fraud occur in inspections.

Do not forget that farmers are primarily interested in avoiding damage, faults or mismatches that may cause leaks or spills of product in inappropriate places and protect the environment in concurrence with our health and our workers.

So, in the vast majority of cases the inspection is only the realization that everything works correctly. However these new inspections are causing great uncertainty in the sector because most teams do not spend ITEAF by small defects that have, even new teams, apart from economic detriment to the farmer, already if cash flow problems.

The rule requires to spend all those mobile inspection teams dedicated to agriculture (hydraulic sprayers, hidroneumáticos, tires and centrifugal and dusters) which must be previously enrolled in the ROMA (Official Register of Agricultural Machinery) of each province or in their respective censuses.

The frequency of inspections will be for new equipment in the first five years after acquisition. Subsequent inspections, every five years from the year 2020 They will be held every three years.

The companies are authorized in the Canary Islands GMR Canarias and Canary ITEAF. The rates that apply in the Canary Islands range from 21,88 euros of a spray gun to 119,80 euros of a fixed installation.