Pesticides and Biocides Notification Services

Our work includes the following:

• Product Registration, Reregistration, and Registration Review –
  • Assist clients across registration, reregistration, and registration review issues, such as:
    • Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act (PRIA 3) matters
    • Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) and Registration Review decision documents
    • California and other state registration requirements
    • PPP authorizations in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009
    • Biocidal active substance and biocidal product authorizations in accordance with EU Regulation 528/2012.
• Compliance –
  • Counsel clients on compliance matters, including those affecting marketing materials and claims, product production requirements, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, and data submission requirements
  • Train client personnel, from management to sales and marketing personnel, on compliance
• Marketing –
  • Counsel clients on product promotion that is compliant with relevant regulations
  • Address legal issues affecting product marketing
  • Assist clients in obtaining approval of expanded claims for products
• Enforcement before Regulatory Authorities and EU Member States –
  • Defend products in enforcement matters involving, among other issues:  labeling, export/import, and experimental use permits
  • Defend products in proceedings involving, among other issues:  Notices of Intent to Suspend, cancellations, and special reviews
• Data Protection and Compensation

Acta is among the elite in pesticide law and  regulatory firms representing global product manufacturers on virtually every aspect of FIFRA/Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) law, policy, science, and regulation.

• Acta assists both large and small product manufacturers and trade associations in tackling the daunting array of scientific, legal, and policy challenges confronting the agricultural chemical community. Acta professionals are intimately familiar with the legislative underpinnings of FIFRA and FQPA, and continue to work on legislative matters arising under FIFRA, the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act (PRIA), and other laws applicable to agricultural practices.
• Acta routinely assists data owners in protecting and optimizing their financial investment in registration data relied upon by follow-on registrants and in negotiating data compensation settlements or assisting in data compensation arbitrations when settlement is not an option.
• Acta professionals have procured countless successes for clients in obtaining novel registrations, continuing challenged registrations, and/or diminishing the regulatory constraints on existing registered products.