Decree on the Management of Registered Products (Text Illegible)

关于农药（植物保护剂）管理的法令

ດຳລັດ ວ່າດ້ວຍການຄຸ້ມຄອງຢາປາບສັດຕູພືດ

Summary

The original scan is a bilingual Lao-English decree with 73 articles structured into sections including General Provisions (Article 1 Purpose, Article 2 Definitions, Article 3...), Classification, and Registration

Articles

Article 1

Article 1. Objectives

This Decree defines the principles, regulations and measures regarding the use of pesticides, management and monitoring of pesticide activities to ensure the quality, efficiency and safety for humans, animals, plants and environment with the aim of allowing the agricultural and forest production to be carried out in line with clean, green and sustainable agriculture, capable to ensure regional and international integration, and contribute to the national socio-economic development.

Article 2

Article 2. Pesticide Management

Pesticide management means the implemention of measures on use and business operations related to pesticides in accordance with technical guidelines ensuring safety to the health, life, property, environment and society.

Article 3

Article 3. Definitions

The terms used in this Decree shall have the meanings as follows:

1. Pesticide means any substance or mixture of substances of chemicals including biological ingredient intended for repelling, destroying, controlling any pest, disease vector, or regulating plant growth;

2. Pest means any plant, insects, animals and pathogenic agent injurious to plants, plant products and environment;

3. Pesticide registration means the process of pesticide approval through the evaluation of scientific data aimed at demonstrating that a pesticide is effective for its intended purposes and does not pose an unaceptable risk to human or animal health or environment under the conditions of use;

4. Pathogenic agent means virus, fungus, bacteria, parasites and other diseases;

5. Disease vector means any organism which transmits infectious disease to human, animal, plant and environment such as: animals, cockroaches, mosquitoes;

6. Banned pesticide means the pesticide which is prohibited to be produced, imported, sold or used and for pesticide activities in order to protect the health of humans, animals and the environment, including the pesticides which are withdrawn from the list of permitted pesticides in Lao PDR;

7. Counterfeit pesticide means a product which is produced and packed in a similar manner as a product already registered, but with a different composition, active ingredient, trademark and validity date on the label;

8. Unstandardized pesticide means a pesticide product that contains a lower or higher concentration of active ingredient, contaminents or other characters that are not in conformity with the pesticide standard being registered;

9. Deteriorated pesticide means a pesticide product that has expired as indicated on the label and where its properties have changed from the original due to coagulation, changing of color and change in other properties;

10. Pesticide waste means the waste from the pesticide, such as: empty containers, packages, pesticide residue and application equipment;

11. Treatment of pesticide means the process of mitigating the pollution and/or averse health impact occurring from pesticide-related activities through the use of techniques, machines or materials and equipment;

12. Disposal of pesticide means the burning, burying or the use of other methods for the purpose of destroying or isolating the pesticide waste;

13. Pesticide formulation means the combination of various ingredients or many kinds of raw materials designed to render the product effective for the purpose claimed and envisage mode of application;

14. Active ingredient means the part of the pesticide product that provides the pesticide to become active for repelling, destroying, controling the pests and disease vectors or to regulate plant growth;

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