The present invention relates to a method for the antimicrobial protection of a plane or non-plane surface of a material object, i.e. other than a human or animal body, characterized in that the face termed the inner face of a self-adhesive plastics film (1) coated on its face termed the inner face with a layer of adhesive (2) is applied against the surface of the object, said film being constituted by plasticized PVC comprising a polymeric plasticizer, said film being flexible and manually stretchable and capable of following the contour of a said surface, having an elongation at break of more than 50% and an ultimate tensile strength of less than 6000 N/m, and said film incorporating in its material or comprising on its surface termed the outer surface an antimicrobial agent rendering the outer surface of said film active against microbes.
