The State Duma adopted a law aimed at strengthening control over the circulation of pesticides and agrochemicals and creating a state information system to ensure their accounting.
The law gives the government the right to approve a regulation on state control (supervision) over the safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals, which implies the delineation of powers of federal control and supervisory bodies in this area. Federal state control in the field of safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals will be carried out at specialized checkpoints across the state border of the Russian Federation, determined by the government.
The document also provides for the creation of a federal state information system for the traceability of pesticides and agrochemicals. The system will be operated by Rosselkhoznadzor, and information will be provided by legal entities, individual entrepreneurs, federal executive authorities and constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
The system is created to account for pesticides and agrochemicals during their handling, production, storage, transportation, use, sale, disposal, disposal, destruction and disposal, as well as for analysis, processing of information submitted to the system and control over their reliability.
The law must enter into force 180 days after its official publication, except for provisions for which different deadlines are established. The article on the rights and obligations of officials of federal bodies exercising control functions in the field of the safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals will come into force on January 1, 2022.
And from 2023, a norm will come into effect, according to which the decision on the results of control in the field of safe handling of pesticides and agrochemicals at checkpoints should be made taking into account the risk management system. The procedure for the development and implementation of risk management measures, including the procedure for collecting and analyzing information, including preliminary information, submitted by participants in foreign economic activity to the customs authorities, as well as the strategy and tactics of applying the risk management system, should be determined by Rosselkhoznadzor.