Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (Operational Efficiency) Bill 2017 [2017] AUSStaCSBSD 367 (15 November 2017)

1.1 The committee seeks a response or further information from the relevant minister or sponsor of the bill with respect to the following bills.

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Purpose	This bill seeks to amend a number of Acts in relation to agricultural and veterinary chemicals to: • simplify reporting requirements for annual returns; • increase the ability of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (the APVMA) to manage errors in an application at the preliminary assessment stage; • enable the APVMA to grant part of a variation application under section 27 of the Schedule to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 (the Agvet Code); • enable a person to apply to vary the relevant particulars or conditions of a label approval that is suspended, to the extent that the variation relates to the grounds for suspension; • enable a person to apply to vary the relevant particulars or conditions of a label approval that is suspended, to the extent that the variation relates to the grounds for suspension; • establish civil pecuniary penalties for contraventions of provisions relating to providing false or misleading information; • amend the notification requirements in section 8E of the Agvet Code • amend the definition of 'expiry date' in the Agvet Code to mean the date after which a chemical product 'must not' be used; and • make minor and technical amendments including the repeal of redundant provisions
Portfolio	Agriculture and Water Resources
Introduced	House of Representatives on 25 October 2017

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