Organic Pesticides in China

Institutional, policy, and legal framework for organic pesticides in China 

Environmental policy, sustainable development policy, and general legislative 

After the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Chinese government developed its own strategy for sustainable development called China s Agenda 21. The strategy advocates sustainable development by industrial policies, including  

Environmental Protection Issues of 1996 required closure of 15 types of small-scale enterprises. The 2005 Guiding Catalog of Industrial Structure Adjustment issued by the State Development and Reform Commission classified more than 1,000 specific industries into categories of support, limitation, and phaseout. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were classified into the limitation or phase-out categories. 

China has established a policy and legal framework for environmental protection, which includes these levels (1) the provisions related to environmental protection and resources in the Constitution (2) the comprehensive law on environmental protection, viz. Law on Environmental Protection (3) the thematic laws on environmental protection and pollution control (Table 3.1) (4) the administrative regulations on 

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