Carlos Goulart, an agronomist from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, was interviewed by AGRIBRASILIS on the changes to the Brazilian Pesticide Law and the aspects that require regulation as a priority.
Goulart replied that competence requires priority action, "competence held previously by State agricultural defence agencies and that was transferred to the Union (Federal level) regarding the registration of establishments that were previously conducted at the State level." A new system has already been developed and will be implemented by the end of this year 2024.
For the rest, ANVISA (Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency) and IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Resources) are handling anything else and no other urgent topics are identified at this point in time.
So far, according to Goulart, the new pesticide legislation has not yet had a noticeable impact on Brazilian farmers, given that its major change is to bring governance to the pesticide registration system, since its competences have not been changed to the Ministry of Agriculture, Anvisa or Ibama.
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