As China has reviewed its regulations on agrochemicals, many overseas enterprises are left with uncertainty about their obligations. CCM answers the most frequent questions, about the applying for production approval certificates, applying for pesticides production, relocation of enterprises, and the authorisation of pesticide processing and sub-packaging.
The Chinese pesticide industry is always strictly supervised by the government, using a complete management system with laws, rules, regulations, standards, and industrial policies. As a result, many laws have a great influence on the pesticide industry, including the Cleaner Production Promotion Law, Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law, Energy Conversation Law, and Agriculture Law.
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According to the Measures for the
Administration of Pesticide Production Licensing, the newly established
chemical pesticide producers shall build their factories in the chemical parks
at and above provincial level, and producers of non-chemical pesticides at and
above city level.
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Any enterprise that has produced other chemical pesticides, whose production
base is in the chemical park at and above city level;
Any enterprise that has produced non-chemical pesticides in the chemical park at and above provincial level;
Any new pesticide producer located in the chemical park at and above the provincial level
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Any pesticide producer which has already obtained formulations production
approval certificate;
Any non-chemical pesticide producer located in the chemical park at and above provincial level;
Any new producer in the chemical park at and above the provincial level
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First, the enterprise shall apply for another production approval certificate.
For chemical pesticide producers, the place they move into shall be chemical
parks at and above city level.
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One pesticide producer can have only one certificate. Several different
production bases are allowed, but the products of each base will be specified
on the production approval certificate.
A: According to the Regulations on Pesticide Administration, the entrusting party shall have the registrations of the products it is to process or sub-package, and the trustee the production approval certificates.
Pesticides TC (TK) are excluded from this. Overseas pesticide producers are allowed to authorise domestic producers of sub-package pesticides and export them to China.
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