On May 26 2014, ICAMA released a notice on its website that the MoA is inviting representatives for a hearing on pesticide marketing approval, which will take place late next month. The hearing will pave the way for China’s new pesticide regulation.

According to the MEP, the last Chinese Dicofol producer Jiangsu Yangnong shut down their  production facility on May 17. The cessation of production is another step in China’s implementation of the Stockholm Convention. The agrochemical industry has greeted the news with apprehension. Industry fears that additional highly-toxic (HPT) will be phased-out in the future and is surely not reassured by the pending Jul 1st deadline on paraquat production.

This article has summarized the banned or restricted for use pesticide in china which are  published by MOA announcements and those pesticides which are suggested to be banned or restricted for use by the pesticide registration review committee. Also it describe  the followed control  measures and suggestion  for administration of  highly hazardous pesticide in china .

According to ICAMA statistics, China’s pesticide export volume dropped by 3.16 %( year on year) to some 428, 5000 tones in the first three month of 2014. In the same period the value of exports increased by 0.18% to 2.19 billion USD. 

Several days ago the MIIT and MOF jointly published a notification (gongxinbulianjie[2014]168) specifying plans to substitute the use of highly toxic pollutants including mercury, lead and highly-toxic pesticides(HTP),including: Methidathion, Thimet, Isofenphos-Methyl, Carbofuran, Methomyl.

On April 6 2014, the MIIT issued a notice that the regulatory responsibility of renewing pesticide manufacturing approval will be decentralized to competent authorities of industrial management at a provincial level.

ICAMA has halted renewal of pesticide registration for products manufactured solely for the purpose of export.

On April 3 2014, China Ministry of Environmental Protection released the final version of the “Catalogue of Hazardous Chemical of Priority Environmental Concern” (HCPEC List). A total of 9 pesticide active ingredients are included in the final list, compared with the previous draft list which contained 12 active ingredients and 3 formulated products.