The lifting of pesticide transportation has begun to see results

Subject matter: On the 13th of April, the China Chemical News published a message saying that “four departments have reached out to ease the difficulty of transporting more than 90% of pesticides into general cargo management” and reported on the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration of Work Safety. Jointly issuing the "Notice on the Transport of Pesticides", medium-poisonous, micro-poisonous and low-toxic pesticides are no longer dangerous cargoes and will be managed as ordinary cargo. On April 23, the fourth edition of the newspaper relied on the theme “Transportation Relaxed to Reduce the Cost of Pesticide Enterprises,” and reported on the views of pesticide companies, transportation and other related departments on the policy. The company stated that it hopes that the good policies can be implemented as soon as possible.

[Chemical Network] At present, the policy has been issued for nearly 4 months. Has the pesticide company's transportation status improved? Has the company enjoyed the convenience? Recently, the reporter received feedback from relevant associations and enterprises that the lifting of pesticide transport has already achieved initial results. Most of the pesticides can be transported as ordinary goods in a straightforward manner. Enterprises can relax.

The person in charge of the China Association for the Development and Application of Pesticides told reporters that in the past month, the Association has heard very little reflection of the difficulties of transportation.

"The situation is much better now than it used to be, and there have been no cases of unlawful fines," said Liu Hongjun, chairman of Zhaohong Jinhong Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. of Shandong Province. Shi Yongping, chairman of Jiangsu Express Chemical Co., Ltd., also said that the new policy has played a good role and brought good results.

This "good" is not easy to come by. According to estimates of industry experts, the transition period from 3 months to 6 months can be required for the implementation of this policy from the time it is released to the local level. Each pesticide production and business enterprise shall strictly regulate the management of production and circulation in accordance with the requirements of the Circular, strictly work on pesticide labeling, and relevant management and law enforcement agencies must accurately understand and correctly grasp and fully implement the new policy on pesticide transportation management.

At present, pesticide companies are seriously studying and actively implementing new policies. Take Tianjin as an example. Compared to many chemical companies in Tianjin, the city has only 100 vehicles for hazardous chemicals transportation. There are many products and fewer vehicles. In the past, pesticide products were difficult to transport in time according to dangerous goods. Only illegal operations can be performed. Now, Zhao Changlin, general manager of Tianjin Tianqing Chemical Co., Ltd., told reporters that the environment for the transportation of pesticides has become more and more relaxed, and companies are constantly improving the pesticide labeling work according to the requirements of the “Notice”.

The company stated that as a special commodity, pesticides used to have a definite and complicated boundary in the packaging and transportation process, leaving companies with many detours. The publication of the "Notice on the Transport of Pesticides" made the company aware of the operation of the pesticide transportation at a glance. Therefore, the implementation of the "Notice" requirements for pesticide restrictions and logos become the focus of enterprises to adapt to the new policy.

According to the requirements of the “Notice”, enterprises should strengthen management at the source, implement limit standards in the production and distribution process, and strictly control the management of packaging and labeling so as to achieve scientific classification, clear identification, and qualified packaging. According to the relevant person in charge of the Department of Water and Transportation of the Ministry of Transport, the pesticide products that are included in the general cargo category cannot be completely equivalent to ordinary goods, and they must be treated differently to ensure the safety of the transportation process. At the same time, companies must bring authoritative inspection agencies to issue new products. Product qualification certificate within the validity period. It is imminent that the old products update their logos in a timely manner. It is understood that some pesticide companies’ products were produced before the release of the new policy. They did not improve their logos in time and were fined by local law enforcement agencies such as Jiangsu Province.

However, the reporter learned that in the implementation of the "Notice", some local law enforcement agencies have lag. For example, at the beginning of the issuance of the “Notice”, some law enforcement agencies still looked at pesticides with an “old vision”, or did not even know that there was such a “Notice”, and even had not recognized the issuing units and deliberately failed to implement the “Notice”. phenomenon.

Shandong Dezhou Hengdong Pesticide Chemical Co., Ltd. reported to the reporter that on May 7th, the company’s pesticide transport vehicle was transported to a county in Hebei Province and was intercepted by personnel from the Transportation Management Department of the county’s Transportation Bureau and used Mara phosphorus pesticides as dangerous goods. The company issued a traffic violation notice and a traffic administrative decision, and ordered the company to stop operating and impose a fine of 30,000 yuan. The company produced documents for the registration of Mara phosphorus pesticides (toxicity is low toxicity) and the "Notice on the Transport of Pesticides". The relevant personnel of the county's transportation bureau still ignored it. At present, this situation still exists in the county, which exposes the problem that the “Notice” is poorly communicated between government departments and local implementation is not enough.

Zhang Yi, general manager of Mount Tokyo Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., also stated that although the current situation of pesticide transportation is better than in the past, the phenomenon of non-performance of "notice" and fines in some areas is still relatively high.