What is the pesticide? What are the pesticide products banned for registration in Vietnam?
Vietnam: What is the pesticide?
According to the provisions of Clause 16, Article 3 of the Law on Plant Protection and Quarantine 2013, Pesticide means the substance or any mixture of substances or the microbiological agent which is meant for preventing, inhibiting, repelling, seducing, destroying or mitigating the harmful impact of plant pests, pathogens and diseases; regulating or controlling the growth of plants or insects; serving the purpose of plant storage; increasing the safety and efficacy for the use of various plant protection products.
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What are the pesticide products banned for registration in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 6 of Circular 21/2015/TT-BNNPTNT stipulating the pesticide products banned for registration in Vietnam as follows:
- Pesticide products specified in the List of pesticide products banned for use in Vietnam (hereinafter referred to as the banned list).
- Formulated pesticide products or pesticide active ingredients with acute toxicity class-I or class-II as classified in the globally harmonized system of classification and labeling of chemicals (hereinafter referred to as GHS), except for biological pesticide products or pest steam cleaner, rodenticides; termiticides used for killing termites to protect buildings, dykes or embankments; pest control products used for preserving food or herbal forestry products.
- Pesticide products which pose high risks to human health, domestic animals, ecosystem and environment, including:
+ Pesticide products subject to warnings issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO); pesticide products specified in the Appendix III of the Rotterdam Convention;
+ Chemical pesticide products being a combination of a wide classes of pesticides with various effects (killing pests, weeds, eradicating diseases and regulating growth), exclusive of seed treatments;
+ Pesticide products containing human pathogens;
+Pesticide products causing genetic mutation, cancer diseases and intoxicating human reproduction;
+ Chemical pesticides registered to be used to exert effects, such as controlling plant pests or regulate the growth of fruit trees, tea plants, vegetables, or storing post-harvest agricultural produce, and causing the acute toxicity of active ingredients or formulations classified into class III and IV in the GHS, or organochlorine classes, and subject to quarantine in more than 07 days.
- Pesticide products bearing their commercial names identical to the names of active ingredients or the commercial names of other pesticides as defined in the List.
- Methyl bromide pesticides.
- Pesticide products registered to exert such effects as controlling organisms other than the ones harmful to plants in Vietnam.
- Pesticide products invented but not yet licensed in overseas countries.
What is the manner of registration for pesticide products in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 8 of Circular 21/2015/TT-BNNPTNT as follows:
Manner of registration
1. The official registration shall be applicable to the followings:
a) Pesticide products containing active ingredients which have not been already specified in the List, or those with the new combination in terms of the ratio and composition of ingredients that already exist in the List invented by organizations or individuals and registered for use in overseas countries;
b) Pesticide products containing active ingredients which have not been already specified in the List, or those with the new combination in terms of the ratio and composition of ingredients that already exist in the List domestically invented by organizations or individuals, and recognized as a class of pesticide product by the Plant Protection Department upon the request of the Science Council established by this Department.
2. The supplemental registration shall be applicable to the followings:
a) Pesticide products with commercial names specified in the List but supplemented with the scope of application, dosage change, application method, formulation type and change of active ingredient content;
b) Pesticide products containing active ingredients specified in the list but registered with different commercial names.
Thus, there are the following forms of pesticide registration:
- The official registration:
+ Pesticide products containing active ingredients which have not been already specified in the List, or those with the new combination in terms of the ratio and composition of ingredients that already exist in the List invented by organizations or individuals and registered for use in overseas countries;
+ Pesticide products containing active ingredients which have not been already specified in the List, or those with the new combination in terms of the ratio and composition of ingredients that already exist in the List domestically invented by organizations or individuals, and recognized as a class of pesticide product by the Plant Protection Department upon the request of the Science Council established by this Department.
- The supplemental registration:
+ Pesticide products with commercial names specified in the List but supplemented with the scope of application, dosage change, application method, formulation type and change of active ingredient content;
+ Pesticide products containing active ingredients specified in the list but registered with different commercial names.
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