Resolution No. 50/1 of 2008 establishing the Agricultural Medicines Committee. Country/Territory Lebanon Document type Regulation Date 2008 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Official Gazette No. 8, 21 February 2008, 3 pp. Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Institution Classification/declassification Pesticides Geographical area Asia, Mediterranean, Middle East, Near East and North Africa, Western Asia Abstract This Resolution is composed of 5 articles. Article 1 deals with the formation of the Agricultural Medicines Committee. Article 2 defines competencies and duties of the Committee, in particular: classification of agricultural medicines as the proportion of risk; scheduling of allowed agricultural medicines; laying down tables for maximum residue limit (MRL) and the value of the pre-harvest (PHI) of agricultural medicines; study of the dangers resulting from the use of certain agricultural medicines on human, animals, plants, birds and beneficial insects; laying down requirements and conditions for the prevention from poisoning risks of agricultural medicines; fixing prices; processing of applications; take action to avoid dangers of the use of pesticides; and, definition of register models. Full text Arabic