Pesticides play an important role in agricultural development. Aim to solve the problems of pesticide industry, pesticide policies focus on all aspects of pesticides such as registration, production, business, environmental protection, pesticide residue and so on.
Some problems faced by pesticide industry in China include:
Environmental pollution: Production and use of pesticides can lead to serious environmental pollution. Base on environmental protection and control in 2016, the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (the MEP) has intensified efforts to protect the environment in 2017. After the MEP announced the key works, work programs were introduced by local governments in succession. This will have significant influence on pesticide industry. Pesticide enterprises are facing more and more environmental pressure in 2017.
Overuse of pesticides: Overuse of pesticides can bring about some problems, such as excessive pesticide residues in agricultural produce, crop injury and environmental pollution, which have always been the concern for people from all walks of life. Therefore, in recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China (the MOA) has formulated detailed policies on pesticide residue standard, prohibition of high toxicity pesticides and zero growth of pesticide usage, which will remain effective in 2017. What's more, some new policies on excessive pesticide residues were formulated in 2017. It's likely that the issue of overuse will be well solved in the future.
Counterfeit and inferior pesticides: Counterfeit and inferior pesticides have plagued the entire pesticide industry and restricted the development of pesticide industry. The new Regulations on Pesticide Administration focuses more on market order monitoring with stricter punishment on illegal behaviors, which will help to improve the problem of counterfeit and inferior pesticides and contribute to the healthy development of domestic pesticide market. In the meantime, policies on the production and circulation of pesticides have also been strengthened with stronger regulation.
Except for the above, other issues and policies of pesticide industry that are worth paying attention to in 2017 are given in this report.
Scope of the report
Region scope: China
Time scope: 2017
Product: pesticides
Aspects: Pesticide registration administration policies, pesticide business policies, pesticide production policies, environment protection policies related to pesticides, pesticide residue policies, restricted pesticide policies and other pesticide policies.
Executive summary
Introduction and methodology
1 Industrial policies for pesticide industry
1.1 2017 No.1 Central Document: deepen advancement of agricultural supply side structural reform
1.2 New Regulations on Pesticide Administration
1.3 VAT cuts benefit future development of pesticide
1.4 Scheme of Accelerating the “Internet + agricultural government affairs service"
1.5 Guidance about Pushing Forward Construction of Information Tracing System of Important Products
1.6 Checklist of Conducting Random Sampling Inspection by Ministry of Agriculture
2 Pesticide registration administration policies
2.1 Measures on Pesticide Registration
2.2 Requirements of Materials for Pesticide Registration
3 Pesticide business policies
3.1 Measures on Pesticide Wholesale and Retail Licensing in Hainan Special Economic Zone
3.2 Notice of Establishing the Credit File System for Agricultural Material and Product Manufacturing and Management Entities
4 Pesticide production policies
4.1 Implementation Rules for Production License of Pesticides
4.2 Requirements for two-dimensional codes on labels of pesticides
4.3 Implementation Plan of Qingdao for Comprehensively Controlling Dangerous Chemicals
5 Environment protection policies related to pesticides
5.1 13th Five-Year Plan for Volatile Organic Compound (VOCs) Pollution Prevention and Control
5.2 Effluent Standards of Pollutants for Pesticides Industry
5.3 Pilot Work Program for Administration of Discharge Permits of Key Industries and River Basins
5.4 Technical Specification for Application and Issuance of Pollutant Permit of Pesticide Industry
6 Pesticide residue policies
6.1 Plan and Requirements of Food Safety Sampling Inspection in 2017
6.2 Key Points of Quality and Safety of Agricultural Produce in 2017
7 Restricted pesticide policies
7.1 List of Restricted Pesticides (2017 Edition)
8 Other pesticide policies
8.1 Draft of the Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Law of the People's Republic of China
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.1-1 Themes of No.1 Central Document, 2004–2017
Table 1.2-1 Contrasts between the old and new versions of the Regulations on Pesticide Administration by chapter
Table 1.2-2 Contrasts between the old and new versions of the Regulations on Pesticide Administration by content
Table 7.1-1 List of Restricted Pesticides (2017 Edition)