Regulatory Governance in the Pesticide Sector in Mexico
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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.
Also available in: Spanish
The context of regulation of pesticides in Mexico
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.
Also available in: Spanish
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