Page 86 - 2018 Annual Report Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan

Collective Dining The Language of Food Unit 3: Building Food Security and Agriproduct Safety Systems A group photo of participants at the international workshop on “Smart Use of Fertilizers for Environmentally Friendly Agriculture.” 2. Ensuring the Safety of Agriproducts 1. Strengthening the management of pesticides A. Creating sound pesticide laws and and management system (a)The government promulgated amendments to Articles 10 and 59 of the “Agro-pesticides Management Act” and the COA amended six other sets of regulations and administrative orders, including: Appendix 1 of Article 2 and Appendices 4 and 5 of Article 3 of the “Regulations of Agro-pesticides Specification”; Supplementary 2 of Article 3 of the “Regulations for the Physicochemical and Toxicological Test of Agro-pesticides”; Article 3 of the “Regulations of Agro-pesticides Field Test”; partial articles of the “Regulations for Training and Management of Managers of Agro-pesticides Dealer”; “Plant Protection Products that Are Exempted from Registration”; and the “List of Highly Hazardous Agro- pesticides.” (b) The COA also amended three sets of administrative rules, including the scope of extended usage on types of grouped crops or pests, representative scope of use, and implementation method specied in Subparagraph 2, Paragraph 1, Article 4 of the “Regulations of Agro- pesticide Field Test”; the “Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture, 84