ANSES : New responsibilities: granting approvals, control and inspection of products, monitoring

Published by Émilie Vianay at 13 May 2015

As part of future legislation for agriculture, food and forestry of 13 October 2014, the French government and the parliament decided to give new responsibilities to ANSES. These are:

– Issuing authorisations of plant protection products, fertilisers, growing media and adjuvants, previously the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture.

– Powers of control and inspection of these products, as regards the manufacture, packaging and labeling.

– The establishment of a monitoring plan for organising data collection on the impact of products on Human Health, flora, fauna, and the environment.

These new responsibilities will constitute an important development for the agency, whose mission fell far mainly in the field of scientific expertise.

The proposed new organisation is as follows:

DAMM (Department for approvals)

Administrative Unit

→ contact point

→ dossiers completeness check

→ processing of administrative dossiers

Approvals decision Unit

→ preparation of approval decisions
→ Implementation of Comparative Assessment

Committee of
Approvals monitoring

→ technical support of DAMM

DEPR (Department for the assessment of regulated products)

Coordination Unit

→ coordination of Assessment Units

Assessment Units

→ assessment of applications

→ comparative assessment of products

R&D and Scientific watch Unit

→ coordination of studies and research

→ scientific watch

Committee of
Specialised Experts

→ technical support of DEPR

PPV (Pesticides Monitoring)
→ PPV data collection (Pesticides Residues Observatory, launching new studies, implementation of agreements…)→ analysis and interpretation of data→ transmission to DAMM and DEPR

PPVworking group→ support of PPV

https://www.anses.fr/fr/documents/Annexe-ModalitesdepriseenchargenouvellesMissions.pdf