"5. SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS For the purposes of this Regulation, the following shall be understood as:
MAD: Mutual Acceptance of Data.
AOAC: Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (by its acronym in English).
APVMA: Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority.
ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials (by its acronym in English).
BVL: Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Germany (Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Germany).
GLP: Good Laboratory Practices.
CAS: Chemical Abstract Service (by its acronym in English).
CIPAC: Collaborative International Pesticides Analytical Council (by its acronym in English).
DIGECA: Directorate of Environmental Quality Management of the Ministry of Environment and Energy.
EC: European Commission (by its acronym in English).
EFSA: European Food Safety Authority.
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency (Environmental Protection Agency United States).
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (by its acronym in English).
FIFRA: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (by its acronym in English).
TGAI: Technical grade active ingredient.
IR: Infrared spectrophotometry.
ISO: International Organization for Standardization.
IUPAC: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (by its acronym in English).
MRL: Maximum residue limit.
MAG: Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
JMAFF: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (by its acronym in English).
MS: Mass spectrometry.
MINAE: Ministry of Environment and Energy.
MINSA: Ministry of Health.
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
OCSPP (OPPTS): Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances) of the United States of America.
WHO: World Health Organization.
NMR: Nuclear magnetic resonance.
SANTE (SANCO): Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Union.
SEPSA: Executive Secretariat for Agricultural Sectoral Planning.
SFE: State Phytosanitary Service.
TC: Technical Material.
TK: Technical Concentrate.
UV-VIS: Ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry.
"8.1.1. The SFE, MINAE, and MINSA must carry out the review of the registration application, the analysis of the documentation provided, and render the respective binding opinions, as applicable to the registration modality, in order to verify that the registration application complies with the administrative, technical, and confidential requirements applicable to this registration modality provided for in this regulation; the foregoing with the objective of verifying that the Technical Grade Active Ingredient, formulated synthetic pesticide (plaguicida sintético formulado), adjuvant (coadyuvante), and related substances (sustancias afines) do not affect human health, the environment, or agriculture. All required information and studies will be accepted for evaluation, provided they are conducted by companies, professionals, universities, national bodies, and international organizations with the corresponding studies or protocols in accordance with what this regulation indicates and that they are conducted with the product to be registered. For these purposes, the corresponding studies and/or protocols must be submitted.
For ecotoxicological and environmental fate studies, if the applicant company has more than one study for any of the indicated requirements, it may submit one or more studies provided that the study with the most critical value (the lowest concentration that causes a toxic effect or the greatest persistence) is included, which will be analyzed by the SFE. If more than one study is provided, the technical justification must be submitted to demonstrate that a value different from the most critical value supported by the additional studies can be used in the environmental risk assessment (evaluación de riesgo ambiental), which will be analyzed by the MINAE when analyzing the environmental risk.
"8.1.3. The documents and information contained in the technical and confidential dossier (legajo técnico y confidencial) submitted to the SFE to support the registration, will be accepted in English or Spanish. For languages other than the above, a translation into Spanish must be submitted.
"8.1.7. The guidelines, studies, trials, and methods of physical, chemical, and toxicological analysis requested in this regulation shall be conducted following the guides established by OCSPP (OPPTS), CIPAC, AOAC, JMAFF, OECD, EC, ASTM, SANTE (SANCO) or other internationally recognized organizations, clearly indicating the code or number and year of the guide used." "10.2.2.2. The documents and information contained in the technical and confidential dossier (legajo técnico y confidencial) submitted to the SFE to support the registration, will be accepted in English or Spanish. For languages other than the above, a translation into Spanish must be submitted." "10.2.2.6. The guidelines, studies, trials, and methods of physical, chemical, and toxicological analysis requested in this regulation shall be conducted following the guides established by OCSPP (OPPTS), CIPAC, AOAC, JMAFF, OECD, EC, ASTM, SANTE (SANCO) or other internationally recognized organizations, clearly indicating the code or number and year of the guide used." "10.2.3. Analytical methodologies for authorization of TGAI (IAGT) by full data evaluation (evaluación de data completa).
The analytical methodologies for determining the physical-chemical quality, determination of the purity of the TGAI (IAGT) or principal component, determination of impurities greater than or equal to 1 g/kg and relevant impurities associated with the TGAI (IAGT), must be submitted to the SFE as indicated in Annex B.
Such methods must be validated in compliance with the established guide mentioned in the document, indicating the results obtained; in addition, the chromatograms must be submitted. Methods validated by CIPAC or other international bodies do not require analytical validation, unless they undergo alterations or modifications." "10.3.2.2.1 General, administrative, technical, and confidential requirements The analytical methodologies for the determination of the purity of the TGAI (IAGT) or principal component, determination of impurities greater than or equal to 1 g/kg and relevant impurities associated with the TGAI (IAGT), must be submitted to the SFE along with the registration application. Such methods must be validated in compliance with the established guide mentioned in the document, indicating the results obtained; in addition, the chromatograms must be submitted. Methods validated by CIPAC or other international bodies do not require analytical validation, unless they undergo alterations or modifications.
To process the registration application under this modality, the registrant must complete and submit the form in Annex A of this regulation. Likewise, they must comply with the general requirements, as well as the initial submission of the requirements defined in the administrative information dossier (legajo de información administrativa), the chemical requirements of the technical information dossier (legajo de información técnica), and the confidential information dossier (legajo de información confidencial), which are found in Annex C of this regulation. In case of not fulfilling the chemical equivalence (equivalencia química), they may submit within a period of 90 business days the toxicological and ecotoxicological requirements of the technical information dossier (legajo de información técnica) in Annex C.
The registrant must review the list of existing reference profiles (perfiles de referencia) issued by the SFE and published on the website: www.sfe.go.cr." "10.6.1. Administrative, technical, and confidential requirements To process the registration application under this modality, the applicant must complete and submit the application form in Annex D; likewise, they must comply with the submission of all the requirements defined in the administrative information dossier (legajo de información administrativa), the technical information dossier (legajo de información técnica), and the confidential information dossier (legajo de información confidencial), which are found in Annex E of this regulation.
All documents must be submitted in physical form and once the SFE implements the computer or digital system for such purposes, they may be submitted in digital form. The formulated synthetic pesticide (plaguicida sintético formulado) must come from the same company or data holder and have the same concentration, origin, and type of formulation as that authorized by the Regulatory Authority. It may contain more than one technical grade active ingredient (ingrediente activo grado técnico), which must be registered by the SFE. It must meet the following requirements:
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"10.7.1. General, administrative, technical, and confidential requirements To process the registration application under this modality, the applicant must complete and submit the form in Annex D; likewise, they must comply with what is indicated in the general requirements in addition to the submission of all the requirements defined in the administrative information dossier (legajo de información administrativa), the technical information dossier (legajo de información técnica), and the confidential information dossier (legajo de información confidencial), which are found in Annex E of this regulation.
The documents and information contained in the technical and confidential dossier (legajo técnico y confidencial) submitted to the SFE to support the registration, will be accepted in English or Spanish. For languages other than the above, a translation into Spanish must be submitted.
All documents must be submitted in physical form and once the SFE implements the computer or digital system for such purposes, they may be submitted in digital form.
For the purposes of this regulation, a formulated synthetic pesticide (plaguicida sintético formulado) may contain more than one active ingredient (ingrediente activo), which must be registered by the SFE." "10.9.1. General, administrative, technical, and confidential requirements To process the registration application under this modality, the applicant must complete and submit the form in Annex I; likewise, they must comply with what is indicated in the general requirements in addition to the submission of all the requirements defined in the administrative information dossier (legajo de información administrativa), the technical information dossier (legajo de información técnica), and the confidential information dossier (legajo de información confidencial), which are found in Annex J of this regulation.
The documents and information contained in the technical and confidential dossier (legajo técnico y confidencial) submitted to the SFE to support a registration or authorization, will be accepted in English or Spanish. For languages other than the above, a translation into Spanish must be submitted.
All documents must be submitted in physical form and once the SFE implements the computer or digital system for such purposes, they may be submitted in digital form."