Changes to farm and veterinary medicines
Would change rules about agricultural compounds and veterinary medicines.
Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Bill
What's changing
- Importing, making, selling, or using agricultural compounds would generally require registration, an exemption, or a specific consent.
- The Director-General would be able to exempt compounds or classes of compounds from registration, with conditions and published reasons.
- People in prescribed classes would have to keep records and provide information about exempt compounds.
- Applications to register products or change their conditions would use an approved form and information.
- The Director-General could consider assessments from recognised overseas regulators when assessing products.
Who's affected
Businesses and people who import, manufacture, sell, use, register, or regulate agricultural compounds would be affected.
When
This proposal is still being examined or debated in Parliament, and no start date is specified; different parts would start on dates set by the government or up to 2 years after the proposal becomes law.
Background
No explanatory note was provided, so the reasons for the proposal are not stated in the supplied information.