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The OECD Pesticides Programme has issued an OECD Best Practices Guidance that addresses compliance and enforcement issues as they relate to pesticides and associated health and environmental risks.
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Compliance is of high importance to pesticide risk reduction and to the proper functioning of pesticide regulatory systems that could be undermined in case of non-compliance.
This document addresses the following areas of the pesticide life-cycle:
For each of the above-mentioned areas, this document:
This Guidance was developed by an ad hoc Expert Group on Pesticide Best Practices Compliance, as part of the OECD pesticide risk reduction activities and was approved by the OECD Working Group on Pesticides, a group composed primarily of representatives of the 34 OECD governments but that also includes representatives of the European Commission and other international organisations, the (bio-)pesticide industry, and the environmental & consumer community.
The OECD Series on Pesticides includes documents that are developed by the OECD Pesticides Programme, that is part of the OECD work on chemical safety. Such documents include reports from workshops and seminars but also guidance documents or survey reports.
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