The newly revised "Pesticide Management Regulations" presents three highlights

Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council recently signed an order of the State Council to announce the newly revised "Regulations on Pesticide Management", which will come into effect on June 1, 2017
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The use of pesticides is directly related to the quality and safety of agricultural products and the ecological environment.
Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen pesticide management
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Zhou Puguo, director of the Pesticide Inspection Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that as an important administrative regulation in China’s agricultural sector, the promulgation of the regulations will further strengthen pesticide management and provide a solid and powerful force to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products and promote the construction of resource-saving and environment-friendly modern agriculture.
Legal basis
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The requirements for the access of the pesticide industry are more stringent.
The regulations strictly control the important gates of pesticide registration, production, and business licenses
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It canceled the relatively low temporary registration, clarified that pesticides produced and exported to China need to apply for registration; improved the pesticide production license system, and clarified the production behaviors such as raw material procurement, product quality control, and commissioned processing and packaging.
Require and clarify that pesticide manufacturers are responsible for the safety and effectiveness of the pesticides they produce
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Manufacturers are required to strengthen quality management, carry out production in strict accordance with product quality standards, and implement product traceability electronic information code management, so that the entire production process can be checked and quality can be controlled
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The regulations also provide for the implementation of a pesticide business license and a fixed-point pesticide business system that restricts the use of pesticides, requiring pesticide operators to purchase pesticides from legal channels, establish a purchase and sales account, and not process or repackage pesticides
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Once a pesticide with a serious hazard or greater risk is found, the pesticide manufacturer and operator shall recall it in time
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Qiao Xiongwu, president of Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, believes that the scientific use of pesticides is an effective measure to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products
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Strengthening the guidance service on the use of pesticides will help fill in the shortcomings of pesticide use supervision and ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products from the important source of agricultural production
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The regulations clearly stipulate that pesticide users should use pesticides rationally, apply pesticides in accordance with the scope of use, method of use, and dosage indicated on the pesticide label, and harvest agricultural products at the safe interval indicated on the label
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It is forbidden to use highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides in the production of vegetables, fruits, tea, fungi, Chinese herbal medicines, etc.

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Agricultural product production enterprises, farmers' specialized cooperatives, and specialized disease and insect pest control service organizations shall establish pesticide use records
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Agricultural departments and related scientific research and teaching units shall provide technical training and technical services for pesticide users
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Pesticide users should protect the environment and beneficial organisms and rare species
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The state has gradually reduced the amount of chemical pesticides through the promotion of biological control, physical control and advanced pesticide application equipment
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The penalties for illegal production and operation continue to increase.
In order to increase the penalties for illegal acts, the regulations have further tightened legal responsibilities: it is clear that the agricultural department and its staff who fail to perform their supervision and management duties in accordance with the law shall be punished and even investigated in accordance with the law Criminal liability; for illegal activities such as unlicensed production and operation, production and operation of counterfeit and inferior pesticides, illegal gains, fines, licenses and corresponding pesticide registration certificates will be confiscated, as well as illegal gains, illegally produced products and those used for illegal production Equipment, raw materials, etc.
, which constitute a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; for the use of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides in vegetables, fruits and other edible agricultural products, penalties such as fines are imposed, and those that constitute a crime shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; pesticide registration has been revoked If the application is approved, the pesticide registration application will not be accepted within 5 years; if the production and operation without a license or the license is revoked, the person in charge directly responsible shall not engage in pesticide production or business activities within 10 years
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In addition, the regulations also assign the pesticide production management responsibilities that were originally in charge of multiple departments to the agricultural department.
While resolving the coexistence of duplicate supervision and blind spots in supervision, it will also greatly reduce the operational burden of pesticide companies
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