Regulatory Governance in the Pesticide Sector in Mexico
A clear, efficient, and modern regulatory framework for pesticides is essential for addressing their impacts on human health and the environment, supporting a life-cycle approach to their management, and ensuring crop protection and a sustainable agricultural industry. This report identifies the gaps, barriers, implementation flaws and inefficiencies that affect the regulatory framework of pesticides in Mexico. It takes stock of the regulatory framework and recent reforms, and identifies both the areas that pose the greatest challenge for the effective regulation of pesticides and those where regulation – or lack of it – in pesticides most affects policy objectives and economic activity. These challenges and practices are assessed in view of OECD principles and country experiences, and recommendations are provided to support better regulation efforts. The report finds that Mexico would benefit from adopting a comprehensive, mutually-agreed policy strategy for pesticides, recognising that pesticide management is a shared responsibility across national and local governments, the pesticide industry, pesticide users, as well as the general public.
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Assessment and recommendations
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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