PMFAI Secretary Appointed President of AgroCare

Dr. Samir Dave, Secretary of the Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Association of India (PMFAI) and Director at AIMCO Pesticides Limited, has been appointed President of AgroCare effective January 2020.

AgroCare, a global association established in April 2008 with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, represents the manufacturers of post-patent pesticides. Its members — the four regional associations for South America, Europe, India, and China — represent more than 850 individual manufacturers. As a global organization, AgroCare defends the interests of generic manufacturers at global platforms such as the Joint Meeting on Pesticides Specifications (JMPS), the Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management (JMPM), and CIPAC (the Collaborative International Pesticides Analytical Council).

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AgroCare represents following regional/national associations:

At the global level, AgroCare consolidates its members’ interests through participation to global platforms. At the joint meetings of UN organizations FAO and WHO (JMPS, JMPR, JMPM). AgroCare is present, not only to collect information for its members on regulatory developments, but also to intervene on their behalf, to ensure that new global procedures, regulations, or guidance do not create specific hurdles for generic manufacturers.

“In the past years, AgroCare has been actively involved in the debate on amendments to the ‘Manual on Development and Use of FAO and WHO Specifications for Pesticides‘, which is causing costly delays for generic manufacturers to participate in international tenders for agrochemical and public hygiene products,” says Aparna Bhasin, Executive Director at PMFAI.

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In close cooperation with its regional member associations and their industry members, AgroCare is the international advocate for achieving feasible rules for establishing equivalence of active substances and products, at the same time maintaining high quality standards, and lowering barriers for the introduction of generic competition, to offer farmers around the world the benefits of free competition after patents have expired.

AgroCare amplifies the voice of generic manufacturers who run into anti-competitive regulations and barriers, and speaks on their behalf. At the same time, AgroCare communicates to its members the developments at the global level, enabling them to adjust their business strategies and prepare for changes in the global regulatory environment.

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