The invention relates to pyridyl carbamates of formula (I), in which the index and the substituents have the follwing meaning: R' is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, alkyl carbonyl and alkoxy carbonyl; R" is optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, or where V is an amino group, also hydrogen; V is oxygen (-O-), sulphur (-S-) or an amino group which can carry one of the following radicals: alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl or cycloalkyl; X is cyano, nitro, halogen, optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkinyloxy, or where n > 1, an optionally substituted bridge bound to two adjacent C-atoms of the pyridyl ring and containing 3 to 4 members from the group of 3 or 4 carbon atoms, 2 to 3 carbon atoms and one or two nitrogen, oxygen and/or sulphur atoms, said bridge being able to form a partially unsaturated or aromatic radical together with the ring to which it is bound; n is 0, 1, 2 or 3, and the radicals X may be different when n > 1; R is halogen, hydroxy, mercapto, amino, formyl, carboxyl, carbonylamino or an organic radical which is bound directly or via an oxy group, mercapto group, amino group, carboxyl or carbonylamino group, or along with one group X and the pyridyl ring to which they are bound, an optionally substituted bicyclic, partially or completely unsaturated system which can contain heteroatoms from the group of oxygen, sulphur and nitrogen in addition to carbon ring members. It also relates to a process and intermediates for the preparation of said pyridil carbamates and use thereof.