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In the current draft of the European Regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products (COM 2022 305), it is established that all the member states have to set up an electronic register of application equipment in professional use. It will set out notification requirements for transfer of ownership and withdrawal of or return to use, and it will also record the inspection certificates. In this way, it will be possible to know the total number of application equipment units that have to be inspected. At the same time, the regulatory bodies will have information on the development of the inspection programme, because it will be possible to know how many units have already passed the inspection and when it has to be renewed. It is also important to know which are the units that have never been inspected and, therefore, they cannot be used for professional use. In Spain the registration of agricultural machines has been in place for more than 60 years. At the beginning, only the machines that have to drive on the roads, had to be in this official list, before they got the licence plate by the traffic authorities. That means all tractors, combines and other selfpropelled and towed agricultural machines (tillage equipment, seeders, mowers, balers, etc.). When the inspection of application equipment in use became mandatory, according to the Directive for the sustainable use of pesticides (2009/128/CE), the registration of all kind of application equipment, both new and in use was also compulsory. For the machines already in use, a special procedure was established to make their registration straightforward. At present, information on the current situation of the inspection programme is available on a digital database. Although there are some constraints, like some old, not used machines which have not been withdrawn, a great deal of useful, detailed information can be obtained from this database. Based on this, the inspection programme can be fine-tuned, in order to get all the sprayers inspected, which is the main objective of the current European Directive. In this paper, the set-up and present situation of the Spanish official registration of application equipment will be presented, because hopefully it can be useful for the establishment of similar tools in other member states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]