The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged regulators, health professionals, industry and the public in responding quickly, decisively and efficiently to the impact and consequences of this virus. Responses of governments to the pandemic have varied, and have been, more or less, coordinated with...

This document provides an overview of the OECD's upcoming work program concerning Biocides. It includes a concise introduction to the use of biocides and explores various possible aspects of sustainable use. These encompass the optimised use of biocides and potential alternatives involving the...

This report collates and analyses the responses from a 2012 survey circulated to OECD Member countries to collect information on risk management and risk mitigation approaches used and developed by governments for professional agricultural pesticide use near residential areas. The purpose of the...

RNA interference (RNAi) is a biological process in which small ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules inhibit gene expression, typically by causing the enzymatic destruction of specific messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules, which are the templates for the synthesis of proteins. This process is commonly...

This document provides guidance on using efficacy and crop safety data generated in other countries and regions (as well as from other sources) and evaluations conducted by other regulatory authorities. The document does not provide guidance on the generation of data itself or related scientific...

This Guidance Document provides guidance and practical advice for applicants on the requirements for flammability testing of biocides and agricultural pesticides/plant protection products in various OECD jurisdictions. Though many of the available methods are common they can differ in small but...

The Global Harmonised Submission Transport Standard (GHSTS) is a standardised set of technical specifications for assembling electronic files for pesticide registration in a predefined manner. Once assembled according to the GHSTS, the dossier files can be transferred from a business to a...

This document provides the first outputs of the Review Sharing initiative which OECD has undertaken over the last few years. Review sharing was proposed to more efficiently leverage constrained specialist resources and permit those specialists (generally toxicologists) to pursue more value-added...

On 20 February 2019, OECD Council adopted the Recommendation on Countering the Illegal Trade of Pesticides to strengthen cooperation between countries and inspectors. A Best Practice Guidance was developed to provide guidance for inspectors and regulatory authorities on best practices for...

This document provides guidance to both industry and regulatory authorities in the context of the assessment of technical equivalence of micro-organisms used in plant protection products. This Guidance Document is applicable for changes to the same strain of micro-organisms only in the framework...