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Publication of the Report of Workshop on the Regulation of Biopesticides: Registration and Communication Issues

17-Jun-2009

This document is a report of an OECD Workshop on science and risk assessment issues related to the registration of biopesticides, which took place on 15-17 April 2008, in Arlington, United States.

Publication of the Working Document on the Evaluation of Microbials for Pest Control

12-Jan-2009

This document provides guidance to government and industry risk assessors, and scientists involved in the registration and regulation of microbial pest control and their active ingredients.

Publication of the Report of the OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction Steering Group Seminar on Risk Reduction through Better Worker Safety and Training

22-Jul-2008

This report presents the results of an OECD seminar on ways to achieve pesticide risk reduction through worker safety and training.  The seminar was hosted by Czech State Phytosanitary Administration, in Brno, Czech Republic, on 21 March 2007. It was chaired by Dr. Wolfgang Zornbach of the German Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture.
ENV/JM/MONO(2008)9 Part 1
ENV/JM/MONO(2008)9 Part 2

Report of the Joint OECD Pesticide RRSG/EC-HAIR Seminar on Environmental Indicators for Pesticide Risk

03-Jul-2008

This report presents the results of a joint OECD/EC seminar on the development of harmonised  environmental indicators for pesticide risk. The seminar was held on 13 November 2006 in Bonn (Germany). The aims of this seminar were to:  present the indicators developed in the framework of the EC-funded HAIR project (Harmonised environmental Indicators for pesticide Risk), discuss issues related to further developments, and consider ways of broadening the use of these indicators across OECD Member countries.

Revision of OECD Monograph Guidance Document (Rev 3)

29-Apr-2008

Section 4.1.1 of the OECD Monograph Guidance Document has been revised to include text which specifies that Regulatory Authorities should not use the contents of a Monograph from another country as a basis for their regulatory decisions unless the data package upon which a particular Monograph was based has been provided to the Authority, or the owner of the data has granted permission for use of the summary evaluation in a Monograph in lieu of the data.




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