Ministerial Decree concerning the adoption of the 1996 plan for the official control of the trade in and use of pesticides. Country/Territory Italy Document type Regulation Date 1996 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana No. 167, 18 July 1996, pp. 11-15. Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Plant protection Pesticides Inspection Data collection/reporting Geographical area Alps, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Mediterranean, Southern Europe Abstract The plan concerns the control of: (a) the compliance of the pesticides with the current laws and, in particular, with the authorization requirements; (b) the use of the pesticides according to satisfactory procedure and, whenever possible, to the integrated pest management. To these ends the Decree establishes the frequency of inspections and sampling modalities, the criteria for the analysis and the presentation of the data collected. Full text Italian