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Decree of the Minister of Agriculture No. 42/Permentan/SR.140/5/2007 on the Supervision of Pesticides.

Country/Territory
Indonesia
Document type
Regulation
Date
2007
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Plant protection Pesticides Monitoring Public health Packaging/labelling Procedural matters
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Indian Ocean, South-Eastern Asia
Entry into force notes
This Decree enters into force on 7 May 2007.
Abstract

This Decree, consisting of 38 articles divided into 11 Chapters, establishes pesticide monitoring conducted within the Indonesian territory. The objectives of the pesticide monitoring are: to protect human health and safety, nature conservation and environment preservation, to ensure the quality and effectiveness of pesticides and provide protection to their producers, distributors and users. The scope of this pesticides supervision document includes the object of supervision, requirements, procedures and dismissal of pesticide supervisor, task, authority and implementation of supervision, reporting, supervision coordination, follow up of pesticide supervision result, as well as guidance and training of pesticide. The pesticide supervision aims at: Monitoring quality and quantity of pesticide products, through quality control and quantity of technical materials, formulations, containers, packaging and pesticide labels whether produced domestically or imported; Documents of licensing and other documents, conducted through the examination of licence and other documents; Monitoring of work accidents due to production, distribution, storage, transportation, use and destruction of pesticides; Environmental impacts, by examining the validity of environmental impacts during the registration period, as well as pollution arising from the use of pesticide products; Types and doses of pesticides and commodities and target organisms in the use of pesticides, carried out by monitoring the suitability of the use of pesticides with the permitted ones; etc.

Full text
English/Indonesian
Website
www.bphn.go.id

References - Legislation

Repeals

Decree of the Minister of Agriculture No. 517/Kpts/TP.270/9/2002 on the Supervision of pesticides.

Legislation | Indonesia | 2002

Keyword: Plant protection, Pesticides, Monitoring, Public health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX