The highlighted policy, namely Regulations on Pesticide Management, which was predicted to be released at the end of 2011 has been delayed and it is predicted to be released in China in H2 2012, according to the information from the 3th Environmentally Friendly Pesticide Formulation Processing Technology and Production Equipment Exchange Meeting held during 24-25 April, 2012.
The coming new policy maintains the framework of management system in the existing policy which includes pesticide registration management, production permission, sales permission (on highly toxic pesticides) and standardization system. Some revisions have been made based on the old framework and written in the new policy after almost one year's discussion among different domestic departments.

