Country Report The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea DPRK International Code of Conduct on the Di

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Country ReportThe Democratic Peoples Republic
of Korea (DPRK)International Code of Conduct on
the Distribution and Use of Pesticides
Implementation,Monitoring and Observance in the
DPRK

• Regional Workshop on International Code of
  Conduct on the Distribution and Use of
  Pesticides Implementation Monitoring and
  Observance
• in the Asia-Pacific Region
• 26-28 July 2005, Bangkok, Thailand

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INTRODUCTION

• In the DPRK, the Pesticide Management is done
  under the coordinated plan and leadership of the
  government, from the principle of contributing to
  the protection of human health and ecological
  system and increasing the agricultural
  production.
• After adoption of this International Code of
  Conduct on the Distribution and Use of
  Pesticides, the DPRK government has done
  necessary works to discharge its duty in managing
  pesticides.
• This report gives an outline of the past
  activities and present situation in the field of
  pesticides management in the DPRK.

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National Legislation and Implementing Agencies
for the ICC

• National Legislations
• Law on the Protection of Environment
• Law on Land
• Law on Rivers
• Law on Agriculture
• Law on Pomiculture
• Law on Fish Breeding
• Law on Quality Control
• Law on Conservation of Biodiversity
• Law on Public Health
• Law on Pesticide Management
• Regulation on Pesticide Management

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- Agencies participate in implementing the ICC

• National Committee for FAO
• The Ministry of Agriculture
• The Central Sanitary Prevention Station
• The Research Institute of Sanitary Science
• The Bureau for Quality Control
• The Ministry of Foreign Trade and General
  Bureau of
• Customs
• The Ministry of Chemical Industry
• The Research Center of Environment Protection
• The Central Plant Quarantine Station
• State Planning Commission

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A. Management of Pests and Pesticides

• A-1. The DPRK government has officially expressed
  its IPM
• policies in agricultural production from
  a long time ago.
• Leading Agency Ministry of
  Agriculture
• Academy of
  Agricultural Sciences
• A-2. IPM priorities in the DPRK
• Comprehensive management on rice stem borer,
  rice water
• weevil, maize stem borer, armyworm, aphids
  occurring in
• cultivation of rice, maize and main
  leaf-vegetables like Chinese
• cabbage.
• A-3. IPM Activities in the DPRK
• - encourage the development of bio-pesticides,
  natural enemies
• and micro-organic pesticides
• - advertising through mass-com
• - cooperation with international organizations
  including FAO

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• A-4-1. The main constraints to IPM strategy
• - lack of comprehensive knowledge about
  biological, cultivation
• technology and chemical extermination means
  used for IPM strategy
• - not to possess the knowledge on scientific
  and technical issues like
• the selection of control means and the
  integrated management
• manner based on establishment of quantitative
  thresholds for insects
• and natural enemies living in the crop
  cultivation environment.
• - weakness of the material and technical
  foundation to realize IPM.
• A-4-2. How to overcome the constraints
• - train the experts for IPM
• - strengthen the relationship between the
  research institutes and the
• administrative organizations in the country,
  and to activate
• international interchange like the
  information exchange and the
• technical cooperation on IPM
• - help the IPM implementing units prepare the
  material and technical
• foundation

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B. Testing, Quality Control and Effects in the
Field

• B-1 All pesticides produced, imported, exported
  and marketed in
• the DPRK pass the quality control process.
• B-2. There is no legislation that requires
  pesticides to conform to
• relevant FAO or WHO specifications, at
  present.
• B-3. There are laboratories for the pesticide
  quality control but
• not enough.
• B-4. All pesticides used in the DPRK are
  restricted by the
• permitted duration of safe use before
  harvest, when being
• applied.

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C. Health and Environment

• C-1. All the policies in the DPRK are put into
  operation on the basis
• of principles to protect the lives and
  properties of the people
• and improve the peoples health and
  living environment.
• C-2. The occupational poisoning cases have not
  yet been presented
• seriously among pesticide producers or
  users, up to now.
• C-3. There is no national problem on
  environmental pollution
• presented by pesticide application.
• C-4. The pesticide residues in foods and
  agricultural products in the
• country are restricted till permitted
  limits, and the limits
• coincide with the MRLs regulated by WHO.

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D. Tendency in Manufacture, Use and Trade of
Pesticides.

• D-1. The amount of pesticides production was
  decreased in resent
• years in the DPRK
• D-2. The production, import, distribution and use
  of pesticides in the
• DPRK are performed under the control of
  the state, and the
• data for them are reported to the
  relevant governmental
• agencies on a regular basis.
• D-3 The government makes measures for control and
  supervision
• necessary to prevent the smuggling and
  illegal sale of pesticide
• products.
• There are no big problems for illegal
  trade of pesticides, at
• present.

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E. Selected Standards

• E-1. The government encourages the participation
  of all relevant
• units fulfill their duties in ensuring
  all standards of products to
• decrease the potential hazard of
  pesticides.
• E-2. The government is doing the activities to
  phase out some
• pesticides that have been produced/used.
• E-3. The government organizes trainings related
  to the hazard
• reduction of pesticides once a year.
• E-4. The collection system for the used container
  of general toxic
• materials including pesticides has been
  established.
• E-5. There is some expectation that pesticides
  will be phased out
• in both pesticide industries and users.
• E-6. The Pesticide Registration System was
  established at the end
• of 1990s.
• E-7. There is a requirement for the pesticide
  products produced in
• domestic to take registration number, but
  not for imported
• pesticides, under present registration
  system.

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Conclusion and Comments

• - Some successes were achieved during the
  implementation
• of the international Code of Conduct in the
  DPRK, and
• experiences were accumulated in the field of
  pesticide
• management.
• - The main issues for improving pesticides
  management
• a to strengthen the legal requirement and
  national control
• b to strengthen the material and technical
  foundation
• c to strengthen the cooperation with
  international
• organizations including FAO
• - The DPRK government will make all possible
  efforts, in
• future, to fulfill its responsibility in
  implementing the
• international legislations like International
  Code of Conduct
• on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides in
  order to protect
• human health and eco-environment and ensure the
  
• sustainable development of agricultural
  production.

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Thank you.