Interesting, Jambop...
A chum in our village is a professional gardening bloke, and told me that some commercial stuff he was using, legally, needed all sorts of expensive safety equipment etc.
He was on holiday in France, and saw exactly the same stuff being used by a local in a village, working with absolutely no protection etc., and stripped to the waist, and spraying the jollop everywhere to his heart's content!
I'm afraid that the dreaded, interfering EU seem to have started a lot of this for something to do, but most normal people just ignore it all.
I do.