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Overview of the Codex MRL Setting Process for Pesticides IAFN Coalition for An Enhanced Codex www.agrifood.net Follow IAFN on Twitter (@AgriFoodNet) Overview of the Codex MRL Setting Process for Pesticides PROCESS CONCERNS National registration of AI or New Use Label requirement delays start of Codex process CCPR members and observers nominate AIs for New Compound or New Use/Other evaluation No provision exists to check nomination data quality

AIs are added to the Codex Schedules and Priority Lists of Pesticides for Evaluation by JMPR (“placed in the queue”) THEY WILL WAIT IN THE QUEUE UNTIL ALL REQUIRED DATA IS AVAILABLE

AIs are prioritized (“given a number”) and placed on a Limited number of JMPR sessions and JMPR Experts limits the number of evaluations per cycle IMPACTS Extraordinary Sessions increase specific upcoming agenda, based on confirmation of data the number of evaluations Submitters have no opportunity for a pre-submission Missing MRLs because availability and a registered label; Call for Data follows discussion with JMPR Secretariat and/or Experts some data is not accepted as it does not meet JMPR Experts conduct evaluation National assessments and MRLs, and trials that requirements JMPR Experts conduct evaluation for Extraordinary Session(s) deviate too far from the label GAP are not considered Missing MRLs because Crop groups have been inconsistently crop groups are not applied by Experts fully applied JMPR held — Pesticides & Toxicology Extraordinary Sessions Committees review and discuss JMPR does not make use of the latest technologies for expand single-year efficient submission and evaluation of dossiers Setting of CXLs delayed capacity and output Experts’ evaluations and submit for a full year or more recommendations to CCPR No explanation given when MRLs are not due to data gaps, recommended or crop group is not applied including some that could have been CCPR recommendations for CXL addressed approvals published in CCPR report and appendices

CAC approval of CCPR recommendations; CXLs officially established by ABBREVIATION KEY GAP Good Agricultural Practices publication of CAC report AI Active Ingredient FAO Food and Agriculture Organization CAC Codex Alimentarius Commission of the United Nations Codex Codex Alimentarius JMPR The Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues CCPR Codex Committee on Pesticide Published in the Residues MRL Maximum Residue Limit Codex Pesticides Delay in adding new CXLs to Codex MRL online database CXL Codex Maximum Residue Limit WHO World Health Organization Residues database