Ecovelex 2025 Approval in Italy

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17 November 2025

Eden Research Plc

("Eden" or "Company")

Ecovelex 2025 Approval in Italy

Ecovelex has been granted temporary authorisation in Italy, providing farmers with continued access to sustainable maize seed treatments to repel birds for the 2026 growing season

Eden Research plc (AIM: EDEN), a leader in sustainable biopesticide and biocontrol technologies, is pleased to announce that Ecovelex™ 2025 has been granted temporary approval in Italy (in accordance with Reg. EU/1107/2009) for use as a bird repellent seed treatment on maize for the 2026 growing season.

Sean Smith, CEO of Eden Research, commented:

"This most recent temporary approval effectively repeats the time-limited permitted use of Ecovelex in Italy, which was first introduced in 2023 on a temporary basis. It comes as welcome news to the many local maize farmers who depend on seeds treated with Ecovelex as one of the only viable solutions left to protect against bird infestation. The temporary approval in Italy enables Eden to sell Ecovelex whilst we await full EU-wide authorisation, which is expected in due course."

Ecovelex represents a new entrant into the seed treatment market and is a replacement for conventional chemicals that are no longer approved in the EU and UK. It was developed to safely tackle crop destruction caused by birds - a major cause of losses in maize and other crops. 

Ecovelex works by emitting an unpleasant taste or odour that repels birds, leaving the seeds safely intact and the birds unaffected and free to find alternative food sources.

The product, developed by Eden at its Oxfordshire facility, is based on Eden's plant-derived active ingredients, which the Company has registered in the EU, US, Mexico and elsewhere. Ecovelex has also been formulated using Eden's Sustaine® plastic-free microencapsulation system. It is designed to support farmers as they strive to meet consumer and regulatory demands for more sustainable agriculture.

In 2023, Eden submitted the regulatory dossier and application to Austria, which is acting as the interzonal rapporteur member state on behalf of the EU. Authorisation is expected in due course, with each EU member state then required to ratify the authorisation or request additional information before granting local authorisations.

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Notes to Editors:

Eden Research is the only UK-listed company focused on biopesticides for sustainable agriculture. It develops and supplies innovative biopesticide products and natural microencapsulation technologies to the global crop protection, animal health and consumer products industries.

Eden's products are formulated with terpene active ingredients, based on natural plant defence metabolites. To date, they have been primarily used on high-value fruits and vegetables, improving crop yields and marketability, with equal or better performance when compared with conventional pesticides. Eden has three products currently on the market:

Based on plant-derived active ingredients, Mevalone® is a foliar biofungicide which initially targets a key disease affecting grapes and other high-value fruit and vegetable crops. It is a useful tool in crop defence programmes and is aligned with the requirements of integrated pest management programmes. It is approved for sale in a number of key countries whilst Eden and its partners pursue regulatory clearance in new territories thereby growing Eden's addressable market globally.

Cedroz™ is a bionematicide that targets free living nematodes which are parasitic worms that affect a wide range of high-value fruit and vegetable crops globally. Cedroz is registered for sale on two continents and Eden's commercial collaborator, Eastman Chemical, is pursuing registration and commercialisation of this important new product in numerous countries globally.

Eden's seed treatment product, EcovelexÔ was developed to safely tackle crop destruction caused by birds - a major cause of losses in maize and other crops. Ecovelex works by creating an unpleasant taste or odour that repels birds, leaving the seeds safely intact and the birds unaffected and free to find alternative food sources. The product is based on Eden's plant-derived chemistry, registered in the EU, U.S. and elsewhere, and formulated using Eden's Sustaine® microencapsulation system.

Eden's Sustaine® encapsulation technology is used to harness the biocidal efficacy of naturally occurring chemicals produced by plants (terpenes) and can also be used with both natural and synthetic compounds to enhance their performance and ease-of-use. Sustaine microcapsules are naturally-derived, plastic-free, biodegradable micro-spheres derived from yeast. It is one of the only viable, proven and immediately registerable solutions to the microplastics problem in formulations requiring encapsulation.

Eden was admitted to trading on AIM on 11 May 2012 and trades under the symbol EDEN. It was awarded the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark in January 2021, which recognises London-listed companies that derive over 50% of their total annual revenue from products and services that contribute to the global green economy. Eden derives 100% of its total annual revenues from sustainable products and services.

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