A seminar regarding China’s pesticide regulation was held by the ICAMA (the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture) in Hangzhou on Nov 12nd and 13rd. GuBaogen, the deputy director of the ICAMA, together with other government officials in the pesticide management field , have presented detailed information on the new “Regulation on Management of Agricultural Chemicals” and explained their preliminary thoughts on data requirements in the dossiers. Up to 500 local officials of pesticide control and the representatives from crop protection industry have attended the symposium. As the new pesticide regulations are taking effect, this event had quite a good turnout of pesticide-related companies seeking for information that may affect their future. Liu Shaoren, chief of the supervision office, stated that final version of the regulation has been  approved by the Standing Committee of the State Council and the copies was distributed to other Ministries. However, the issuance was postponed as a result of the delay of the18th National Congress of Communist Party of China.In short, the regulation aims at supporting the R&D and HES oriented companies and eliminating the incompetent players and products. The other goal of the regulation is to encourage China’s pesticide industry to enter the global crop protection market. Please note if you want to read the full text please reference  www.chemlinked.com