2015 is the last year of 12th Five Year Plan (FYP), lots of discussion about 13th FYP have been conducted recently. During 15th National Pesticide Communication Conference, Mr. Cao Chengyu, the vice secretary-general of the China Pesticide Industry Association shared the results of 12th FYP.

Recently, the 19th Pesticide Information Exchange Conference was held in Nanjing. Vice director of ICAMA Mr. Zhao Yonghui presented on “Pesticide registration management and company’s precautions”. Mr. Zhao interpreted assessment factors in pesticide registration, and concerns of pesticide registration, and introduced document authorization, pharmacodynamic test and risk assessment when registering pesticides. Apart from that, Mr. Zhao has also summarized practical advice for 13 pesticides to help companies avoid detours in registration, which covers some popular products in market as followed:

The development of pesticide industry of China has only gone through several decades, even though China has become one of the largest pesticide production and exportation countries, there still exits big gap comparing with developed countries. The main gap falls on the production and application of highly-toxic pesticides and large scale of old products. 33 types of highly toxic pesticides have been banned step by step since 1980s, and only 22 registered types of highly toxic can be used now.

In an effort to improve pesticide environmental risk assessment, the ICAMA held a training program in Hangzhou on October 14th and 15th 2015.

According to a State Council announcement made on September 2nd 2015, the revision of pesticide administration regulations is a priority agenda for 2015. The announcement states.

From 1 January 2013 to 20 April 2015, China ICAMA received almost 15,000 applications for field trial, which is an essential part of obtaining pesticide registration in China, of which 10,234 of them were based on the off-patent or the sub-new active ingredients.The number the application filed by over-seas applicants was relatively small, reflecting the Chinese producers are inflating expectation on the off-patent market.

The total sales of the top 100 were 106.33 billion CNY, an increase of 9% on the previous year of 97.92 billion CYN. The qualifying criteria for the top 100 ranking list required a minimum of 350 million CYN per annum turnover, reflecting growth of 17% compared with 2013. 36 of thenm have reached sales of more than 1 billion CNY.

On 11 May 2015, China ICAMA released a correspondence opening a 20 days public consultation on the optimum ratio of gyphosate to glufosinate in these product formulations. The institute is collecting scientific suggestion with a view to opening registration on mixed formulations in the future.

On the 14th of April 2015, China MEP released a draft of “ Interim Measures for the Package Waste Recycling and Disposal of Pesticide” and is currently soliciting opinions from other ministerial authorities. Under the new regulation both pesticide importers and producers will be required to collect and dispose of waste pesticide packaging and other packaging waste.