Four implementation tasks were included in this project, including management regulation assessment, international and administrative business exchange, environmental agents safety enhancement, and broad advocacy. For management regulation assessment, this project proposed expositions and complementary measures for the “Environmental Agents Control Act Enforcement Rules” on the five categories with difficulties in implementation: advertising, importation, responsible persons, label, and environment. This project also proposed specific recommendations on (1) modifying the requirements on toxicity testing items in the “Working Standards for Environmental Agent Permit Application and Issuance” and (2) introducing environmental agent labels into GHS. Regarding international and administrative business exchange, this project supported delegates to attend the FAOPMA-Pest Summit 2019 in South Korea to learn the development of pest control worldwide. Two workshops, Environmental Agents and Vector Management International Workshop and 2019 Conference and Workshop on Environmental Agents and Vector Management, were held by this project. A total of 304 people participated in the two events. As the participants were from related industries and research institutes, these events fulfilled the purpose of knowledge exchange among the industry, government, and academia. For environmental agent safety enhancement, this project assisted in the completion of preliminary reviews on 761 permit applications. The formulation of “Guidelines for Assessment and Examination on Institutes for Environmental Agent Efficacy (Potency) Testing” and related examinations were completed under the assistance of this project. In addition, the draft of environment agent audit was formulated, and the related corporates were surveyed to enhance the safety management of environment agents with professional review and on-site survey. Regarding broad advocacy, this project held seminars on environment agent importation and the regulations on its advertising and invited tour guides, managers of network platforms, and the public to participate in these events. To promote the correct use of environment agents, this project disseminated related information through video, radio short skits and magazine advertising this year.

Environmental Agents, Study of environmental agents regulations, Laboratories of environmental agent efficacy (potency) testing, Safety advocacy of environmental agents, The Federation of Asian and Oceania Pest Managers Associations (FAOPMA)-Pest Summit, International exchange of environmental agents