The Law was adopted at the 2nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on July 2, 1993, amended at the 31st Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress and promulgated by Order No. 81 of the President of the People’s Republic of China on December 28, 2002.

The Law was adopted at the 16th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on July 8, 2000, promulgated by Order No. 34 of the President of the People’s Republic of China on July 8, 2000, and amended in accordance with the Decision on Amending the Seed Law of the People's Republic of China, adopted at the 11th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress on August 28, 2004. Activities such as variety selection and production of, trading in, use and management of seeds engaged in within the territory of the People's Republic of China must conform to this Law.

The Regulation was adopted at the 38th Executive Meeting of the State Council on May 9, 2001, promulgated by Decree No. 304 of the State Council of the People's Republic of China of 2001 on May 23, 2001, and effective as of the date of promulgation. It was formulated to strengthen the administration of agricultural genetically modified organisms. The activities of research, experiment, production, processing, marketing, import and export with respect to agricultural genetically modified organisms within the territory of the People's Republic of China must conform to these Regulations.

This eBook provides a retrospect of China’s regulatory progress in the past year and analyzes the impact on China pesticide industries, as well as forecast of its future legislative development. As the largest agrochemical manufacturer and a major market worldwide, China’s new pesticide regulations and regulatory trend will undoubtedly have profound implications on the global crop protection industry.

The “Data requirements on Pesticide Registration” was formulated under the “Regulations on Pesticide Administration” and the “Measure on the Implementation of the Regulations on Pesticide Management. It is to regulate the practical operation of pesticide registration”. The pesticide products which domestically produced, processed, repacked in China and imported from overseas should be registered to the MoA according to the Data requirements. The registration of new active ingredients and new formulated products should go through the procedures of field trial, temporary registration and full registration. This document specified the types, data required and product samples for pesticide registration. The applicant should obtain the pesticide registration by providing authentic and valid dossier.This regulation has been revoked since the implementation of China's new pesticide regulation, the"MoA Announcement 2569-Data Requirements on Pesticide Registration". Please click below link to visit our new page for more infomation:English Translation of China MoA Annoucement 2569 Data Requirements on Pesticide Registration

The regulation which took effect on Nov 29 2001 was promulgated to supervise and control the production, marketing and utilization of pesticides. The Production, marketing and utilization of pesticide within the territory of China are subject to these Regulations.