On 3 Sep 2017, China MoA issued Announcement 2568 of 2017, the “Rules for the Inspection on Pesticide Production License”.  In 2017, China promulgated the new pesticide regulation and designated MoA as the sole competent authority for pesticide production license and  a ministerial regulation regarding production managment was promulgated later.

On 31 Aug 2017, China MoA issued Announcement 2567 of 2017 namely the “List of Restricted Pesticides”, which was subject to public consultation earlier this year.On 31 Aug 2017, China MoA issued Announcement 2567 of 2017 namely the “List of Restricted Pesticides”, which was subject to public consultation earlier this year

  Annually, plant nematodes account for 12% of crop losses globally, amounting to some 100 billion USD in losses. It is forecasted that the global nematicide market will reach a value of 1.35 billion USD by the end of 2020 and significant growth will happen in the Asia Pacific and South America region. Currently, the value of the Chinese nematicide market is 500 million CNY, representing only 1% of the total pesticide market. With the increasing occurrence of nematode crop infestations in China, the nematicide market is expected to undergo significant growth.

On 4 Aug 2017, the General Office of MoA releases the new format of 5 pesticide licenses: the pesticide registration certificate, the certificate of testing institutions for pesticide registration, experimentation permit for new pesticide registration, the pesticide production license and the pesticide marketing license, which will be utilized for the 3-element approval system under new pesticide regulation.

Uruguay pesticide importation (including formulations, TCs/TKs and adjuvants) decreased from 146.38 million USD in 2015 to 135.29 million USD in 2016. Import value grew from 61.89 million USD in 2006 and reached a peak of 254.03 million USD in 2014. Although importation value has been unstable, the percentages of product categories were generally stable. Herbicide accounted for 60% of the total value, followed by fungicide (16%), insecticide (10%) and others (10%).

On 31 Jul 2017, China MEP released the draft of “Technical Specification of Application and Issuance of Pesticide Pollutant Permit” for consultation until 30 Aug 2017. The draft specifies the information requirement, determination method of emission limits, computation of actual emission, criterion to assess environmental violation, as well as the technical requirements on self-inspection, ledger of environmental management and performance reporting of pollutant permit for pesticide (intermediate) production.

On 12 Jul 2017, the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) issued Announcement 18 of 2017 to promulgate 28 toxicological testing methods for pesticide registration, which will take effect as of 1 Feb 2018 and replace the GB 15670-1995.

China NHPFC has recently solicited internal comments from industry through its provincial institutes on a draft standard of the hygienic safety assessment of the Category I and Category II disinfection products. The NHFPC plans to promulgate the standard by the end of 2017, replacing the current “Provisions for the Hygienic Safety Assessment of Disinfection Products”. A comparison between the two versions reveals elevated enforceability, more defined product classification and more scientific testing requirements in the new draft.

p>In accordance with the provisions contained in China Food Safety Law and the Management regulations of Agrochemicals, this new set of rules aims at fulfilling the requirements contained in the “Stockholm convention on persistent organic pollutants” and the “Copenhagen Amendment to the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer”.