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plans. The Ministry of Chemicals will be considered by the Conference of
and Petrochemicals had previously the Parties to the Convention in 2008.
recommended a cut from the current
16% to 8%, in line with industry requests ■ Experts are warning Australian farmers
for many years. However, the Finance to monitor the control of barnyard grass
Minister left the duty unchanged in the (Echinochloa crus-galli) following the
new budget. world’s first suspected case of resistance
to the herbicide, glyphosate. The New
■ The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and South Wales Department of Primary
Land Reclamation has issue a decree for Industries plans to conduct field tests
the registration, re-registration and use of to determine management options for
agrochemicals. It is based on measures resistant barnyard grass populations.
already established by the WHO/FAO, the
US EPA and the European Commission. ■ The New Zealand Food Safety
Authority’s Agricultural Compounds and
■ International experts have Veterinary Medicines Group received 619
recommended the inclusion of another two agrochemical registration applications in
pesticides on the prior informed consent 2006, a 50% increase on the previous year.
list under the Rotterdam Convention. The There has been a large increase in
recommendations for the organochlorine generic pesticide registrations in New
insecticide, endosulfan, and the wood Zealand in the last two years, the
preservative/anti-fouling paint, tributyl tin, Group points out.
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