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4. REGISTRATION PROCESS
OF PLANT PROTECTION
PRODUCTS (PPPS)
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cUrrEnt SitUation
Recommendations:
The aim is to incorporate European standards into the domestic Serbian
legislation, in terms of the efforts of Serbia to fully harmonise
the regulations of the Republic of Serbia with the EU and the World
Trade Organization (WTO).
The FIC advocates full harmonisation with EU standards and proper
implementation of the registration process of plant protection products
in the Republic of Serbia, in order to ensure food safety for consumers
and fair competition between international and domestic
companies, at the same time creating favourable market conditions
for foreign investments.
The current Law on Plant Protection Products was adopted
on 2 June 2009 (Official Gazette of the Republic of
Serbia No. 41/09) under the responsibility of the Ministry
of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management. It does
not ensure food safety and poses an unknown risk to consumers
due to the fact that certain amendments (Articles
86–90) in the new law refer back to the previous Law on
Plant Protection (Official Journal of the FRY No. 26/98)
from 1998.
This decision brought us to the situation that newly registered
PPPs may contain one or more technical actives
along with their impurities of uncertain (eco)toxicological
concern, since they may have never been tested in order to
be proven safe for human health and the environment.
More than 900 PPPs are registered in Serbia at the moment,
with the majority (approximately 600 product
brands) being allowed to enter the market without proper
toxicological and eco-toxicological data, and are being
applied on Serbian products including fruits, vegetables,
corn, grapes, etc.
Introduced
in the WB:
Significant
progress
Certain
progress
No
progress
2010 √
2010 √
The majority of these pesticides would not be granted registration
in the European Union and other destination markets
for Serbian food exports.
What does the process of registration of PPPs in the EU look
like?
The Commission directive governing the inclusion or noninclusion
of active ingredients in its Annex I is published in
the Official Journal of the European Union. If the primary
notifier wishes to add an additional source of the same
technical active, or any other applicant wishes to apply for
inclusion of a new source not yet evaluated at the EU level,
he would have to prove that his technical material is equivalent
to the reference source.
If the new source presents a similar or lesser hazard compared
to the reference source, the new source may be considered
equivalent to the reference source. Also, equivalence
of technical materials must be proven in case there
is a change in the manufacturing process and/or quality of
starting materials, and/or a change of the manufacturing
location, and/or addition of one or more alternative manufacturing
locations.
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