Amendment of the agricultural remedies regulations

The amendment concerns making provisions for the Globally Harmonized System (GHS)of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals; introduction of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development principles of Good Laboratory Practice (OECD GLP); prohibition of registration and use of active ingredients and their formulation that meet criteria 1A of the GHS, relating to carcinogenicity, mutagenicity and reproductive toxin, as well as active ingredients listed in Annexes A and B of the Stockholm Convention, and those meeting all criteria in paragraph 1 of Annex D. The amendment also makes provision for record-keeping of the agricultural remedies quantity sold.