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Laws and regulations are one of the key levers governments can use to improve the wellbeing of societies, alongside fiscal or momentary policy. But governments need to ensure that laws and regulations are fit-for purpose and effective in achieving their goals such as protecting human health and the environment. To this end, the OECD 2012 Recommendation of the Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance recommends that policy makers and public officials “conduct systematic programme reviews of the stock of significant regulation against clearly defined policy goals, including consideration of costs and benefits, to ensure that regulations remain up to date, cost-justified, cost-effective and consistent and delivers the intended policy objectives”.
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Having a clear, efficient, and modern regulatory framework for pesticides is essential for addressing their impacts on human health and the environment, and to supporting a life-cycle approach to their management, while ensuring crop protection and a sustainable agricultural industry. This report conducts a broad review of the state of pesticide regulation in Mexico and provides recommendations for improvement.
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This chapter provides an economic and regulatory overview of the pesticide sector in Mexico. The chapter starts by reviewing recent trends on production, sales and international trade of pesticide and agriculture products. The next section outlines the role that a number of agencies have on regulating the Mexican pesticide sector, and it analyses the use of regulatory improvement tools for pesticide policy.
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This chapter focuses on the state of play in relation to the assessment of pesticides and the process of approval/(re)registration of new and existing active ingredients and pesticide products. In particular, it describes the registration scope, strategy, process, and data requirements, and how Mexico performs the evaluation of pesticides during this process. It also presents information on how Mexico revokes pesticide registrations of pesticides already registered and on the market. This chapter also includes a review of the current approach to how regulators monitor and enforce compliance with regulatory requirements as they relate to pesticide management
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This chapter reviews best pesticide regulation practices from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Reasons for selecting these OECD countries include, but are not limited to, their recent efforts in reforming pesticides regulatory management, certain similarities (e.g. reliance on the import of pesticides), their close co-operation with Mexico on pesticides management (e.g. under the T-MEC Agreement) or their involvement in the preparation of this report.
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This chapter presents an assessment of the subjects covered in Chapters 1 and 2, and delivers recommendations for improvement. Recommendations mainly come from OECD principles and international experiences.The assessment and recommendations are divided among the following sections: 1) General policy topics; 2) Impacts on health and the environment; 3) Stakeholder engagement; 4) International co-operation; 5) Registration and post-registration; 6) Responsible use of pesticides.
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