For the purposes of this regulation, the following definitions are established:
1. Pesticide Class: determines if the product is an insecticide, fungicide, herbicide, nematicide, or other.
2. Manufacturer: natural or legal person dedicated to the synthesis of technical grade active ingredient. This term only applies for formulating products that will have agricultural use outside of Costa Rican territory.
3. Formulation: any product containing one or more active ingredients uniformly distributed in one or more inert carriers, with or without the aid of formulation conditioners.
4. Formulator: natural or legal person dedicated to the formulation of synthetic formulated pesticides and related substances. This term only applies for products that will have agricultural use outside of Costa Rican territory.
5. Technical Grade Active Ingredient: the technical grade active ingredient can be found under two designations TC (technical material), and TK (technical concentrate). TC normally has a high concentration of active ingredient, may have essential additives such as stabilizers, but does not have diluents or solvents. TK, on its part, normally contains a lower concentration, either because a diluent has been added to a TC or because it may be impractical or undesirable to isolate the active ingredient from the solvent, impurities, among others. In addition, TK may have essential additives such as stabilizers, as well as diluents or solvents. This term only applies for formulating products that will have agricultural use outside of Costa Rican territory.
6. Trade Name: name by which the registrant identifies a specific product for export.
7. Generic or Common Name: common name of the synthetic formulated pesticide and of the technical grade active ingredient approved by an official international standardization body.
8. Chemical Name: refers to the name of the molecule(s) of the active ingredient of a product approved by an official international standardization body.
9. Pesticide: any substance or mixture of substances with biocidal or physiological action, intended to prevent, destroy, or control any pest that affects planting, crops and their harvests, or that interferes in any other way in production, likewise includes those substances applied to the product after harvest. This term includes synthetic substances intended to be used as plant growth regulators and floral inducers that are not produced naturally by them. This term only applies for products that will have agricultural use outside of Costa Rican territory.
10. Prohibited Pesticide: a pesticide for which all uses in the country have been prohibited by a definitive regulatory measure, in order to protect human health or the environment. These must be published through an Executive Decree.
11. Synthetic Formulated Pesticide: commercial product that has been prepared from a technical grade active ingredient plus the other components of the formulation following established quality standards, in the form in which it is packaged and will strictly be exported.
12. Registrant: natural or legal person who requests from the Ministry the authorization for a registration of a synthetic formulated pesticide, technical grade active ingredient, adjuvant, and related substances, for exclusive export purposes.
13. Registration: the term registration applies only to products formulated in National Formulation Plants, Free Zones, Active Improvement, or other similar regimes, that formulate pesticides exclusively for export, as well as the Technical Grade Active Ingredients used to formulate these products.
14. Registration Holder: natural or legal person who owns the registration for export of a synthetic formulated pesticide, technical grade active ingredient, adjuvants, and related substances before the Ministry.