As of October 2018, only agronomists can prescribe the use of agrochemicals. Until now, prescriptions could only reproduce what is predicted in the package inserts issued by manufacturers. The decision was set out in an agreement signed between the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa), Blairo Maggi, and the Federal Council of Engineering and […]
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently awarded 16 applied research and development grants to enhance the development, adoption, and implementation of innovative, ecologically-based, sustainable integrated pest management (IPM) technologies, tools, and strategies that address regional and/or national IPM priorities. Among the projects funded include the use of photobiology and lighting technologies for suppression […]
Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed Section Phytopharmaceuticals – Legislation (as part of PAFF Committee on Phytopharmaceuticals – Pesticide Residues) 27 NOVEMBER 2018 CIRCABC Link: https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/ea6ae06f-931f-4384-b285-945ed392c018 AGENDA Section B Draft(s) presented for an opinion B.01 Exchange of views and possible opinion of the Committee on a draft Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) renewing the […]
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has decided to levy anti-dumping duties on imported ethanolamines originating from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Thailand for the next five years beginning from October 30, 2018. The Ministry of Commerce said that it had made an announcement under ref 2017-67 on October 30, 2017, to launch an […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1501 of 9 October 2018 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance pymetrozine, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (Text with EEA relevance) […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1495 of 8 October 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 as regards the conditions of approval of the active substance malathion (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament […]
The president of the National Food Safety and Quality Service (Senasa) of Argentina, Ricardo Negri, signed Resolution 263/2018 which prohibits, from the day after the publication in the Official Gazette (10/09/2018), the processing, import, and fractionation of the active ingredients carbofuran, carbosulfan, diazinon, aldicarb and dicofol, and their formulated products. The commercialization and use of […]
A scenario in which the UK leaves the EU without agreement (a ‘no deal’ scenario) remains unlikely given the mutual interests of the UK and the EU in securing a negotiated outcome. Negotiations are progressing well and both we and the EU continue to work hard to seek a positive deal. However, it’s our duty […]
Brazilians will be going to the polls next Sunday to choose their new president. The front-runner is the far right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro, a congressman who has said that Brazil’s environmental policies are “suffocating the country.” He has not laid out a detailed plan for agriculture, but he has repeatedly expressed his disdain for environmental […]