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The new regulations of the European Parliament and European Commission (Resolution 1107/2009 and Directive 2009/128/WE) give a priority to the integrated approach to plant protection. As biological methods are essential part of such approach, their further development is important to future success in plant protection. The main changes recorded in various areas of biological control, with special reference to species of biological control agents used in practice, technologies of mass production and stability of the product, methods of formulation, biopesticides available on the market, areas of the use of biological control methods, methods of application, registration requirements, and promotion, distribution, and, advisory system are reviewed.