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The automatic licensing requirement (import registration) depends on whether the goods to be imported are subject to requirements, permits or prior authorizations on the part of other control (environmental, sanitary, phytosanitary, etc.) bodies.

Draft resolution establishing requirements for the registration and control of chemical pesticides for agricultural use.
he notified draft resolution sets out procedures and requirements for the registration and control of chemical pesticides for agricultural use and the registration of companies that manufacture, formulate, package, import, export and/or distribute chemical pesticides for agricultural use, with a view to minimizing associated health and environmental risks and protecting plant health in Colombia.

The text establishes that any chemical pesticide used in agriculture in Colombia must be registered at the national level, in accordance with the provisions set forth therein and Decision No. 804 of 2015 of the General Secretariat of the Andean Community of Nations (SGCAN) .

Ban on the manufacture, importation, possession and use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and on the introduction into the territory of Colombia of nuclear or toxic waste

Support to encourage diversification from growing illicit narcotic crops

Draft Decree regulating the integral management of chemical substances for industrial use and containing other determinations. Its articles cover the following:

Purpose; Scope; Definitions; Instruments for the management of chemical substances for industrial use; Register of chemical substances for industrial use; Obligation to conduct environmental and health risk assessments; Obligation to implement environmental and health risk reduction and management programmes; Environmental risk assessment; Health risk assessment; Environmental risk reduction and management programmes; Health risk reduction and management programme; Environmental monitoring of chemical substances for industrial use; Monitoring of the effects on health of the utilization of chemical substances for industrial use, Article 15. Intersectoral Follow-up Committee for the Management of Chemical Substances for Industrial Use (CISQUIN); Composition of CISQUIN; Functions of CISQUIN; Obligations of importers and manufacturers; Obligations of the marketers and distributors; Obligations of transporters; Obligations of users; Reliable data available; Mutual acceptance of data; Right to use information; Non-confidential information; Exchange of confidential information; Inspection, monitoring and control; and Period of validity

Draft Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) Resolution establishing the procedure applicable to a cultivar where innovative plant-breeding techniques deriving from modern biotechnology have been used at some stage of the plant-breeding process, and the end product does not contain foreign genetic material

Draft Resolution of the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development "Establishing the maximum level for ratio indicators relating to the greenhouse gas emissions inventory for denatured anhydrous fuel ethanol, and adopting other provisions"

Draft Resolution of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism and the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development "Issuing the Technical Regulation applicable to zinc- carbon and alkaline cells and batteries imported into or manufactured in Colombia for marketing in the country": The notified draft Resolution sets out the minimum information requirements applicable to zinc- carbon and alkaline cell and battery labels and markings and establishes the maximum permitted levels for the heavy metals in such products.

Draft Resolution of the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) "Laying down registration requirements for producers, contract producers, packers, importers, and agronomic assessment units conducting agricultural bio -input efficacy trials. It also establishes registration requirements for bio -inputs for agricultural use, and other provisions"