Disclosed by Mrs. Wu Zhifeng,
Deputy Director of the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of
Agriculture (ICAMA), during the 3th Environmentally Friendly Pesticide Formulation
Processing Technology and Production Equipment Exchange Meeting held on 24-25
April, 2012, the new pesticide management policy, namely Regulations on
Pesticide Management, is about to be released in the near future, based on CCM
International’s latest issue of Crop
Protection China News.
As the last revised version of
Regulations on Pesticide Management carried out from 29 Nov., 2001 no longer
keeps pace with the great development of domestic pesticide industry in recent
years, Chinese government started to amend this version in 2010. After about
two years' amendment, the new version of the policy is expected to be released
in the second half of 2012.
Despite some large revisions
which have been exposed to the public when the Legislative Affairs Office of
China State Council released a draft for seeking opinions on Regulations on
Pesticide Management on 21 July, 2011, some more new information about the
coming policy has been disclosed by Mrs. Wu during the meeting this time.
According to Mrs. Wu, the coming
new policy maintains the framework of management system in the existing policy
which includes registration management, production permission, sales permission
(on highly toxic pesticides) and standardization system. Aiming to further
regulate domestic pesticide industry and ensure domestic food security,
reversions are made based on the framework to further perfect the policy.
The former two large
modifications made in 2011, namely cancelling the temporary registration of
pesticides and setting up the license system of pesticide business, are now
formally written into the new policy. Cancelling the temporary registration and
further standardizing the process of pesticide registration are to further
emphasize pesticide safety, the effectiveness evaluation of pesticides and
higher investigation requirements. Setting up the license system of pesticide
business aims at a better management of pesticide dealing, especially highly
toxic ones.
The new policy will further
strengthen the management after registration and carry out more new policies to
restrict the use of some pesticides, e.g. stop approving the registration of
chlorpyrifos and triazophos on vegetables and stop the registration of medical
antibiotics as pesticides.
Even though lots of people are
not optimistic on the implementation of the first pesticide recall system, it
is still written in the new policy, mainly aiming at highly toxic or highly
dangerous pesticides. Many pesticide enterprises in China believe that the
implementation of the pesticide recall system will face lots of difficulties in
reality because they can't control the behavior of pesticide dealers and the
technology needed in the bio-safety disposal of those recalled pesticide is
also a big problem for most pesticide enterprises. Plus, pesticide enterprises
may go bankrupt if a large amount of expired pesticides are forced to be
recalled.
Moreover, greater punishment is
made in the coming new policy. Once production license is revoked, the
supervisors and the directly responsible personnel of the company shall not be
engaged in pesticide dealing within ten years and the government will not
accept its pesticide registration application within five years. Production
licenses can be revoked if labels seriously violate related regulations.
Content of Crop Protection China News 1210:
New
Regulations on Pesticide Management to be released
China to launch joint test for vegetable pesticide
registration
Fujian standardizes and develops tea industry
Common
name of China
self-developed herbicide approved by ISO
HAAS
develops new biological agent-YB-01
Guoguang
Agrochemical tries IPO
Reasons
for denial of Huayang Technology's reorganization revealed
Lier
Chemical sees net profit down in Q1 2012
Anhui
Huilong to invest in two new companies
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