active ingredient

the component of the pesticide or veterinary medicine product responsible for its physiological or pharmacological action

adjuvant

whatever aids in removing or preventing a disease, especially a substance added to a prescription to aid the operation of the main ingredient

Administration Act

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

AgQA Scheme

Quality Assurance Scheme for Agricultural Active Constituents and Agricultural Chemical Products

agvet chemicals

agricultural and veterinary chemicals

Agvet Code

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code scheduled to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

Agvet Code Regulations

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations scheduled to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Regulations 1995

anthelmintic

destroying or expelling intestinal worms

ChemCert

National Farm Chemical User Training Program

Codex

Codex Alimentarius Commission (United Nations)

cost recovery

fees and charges related to the provision of government goods and services (including regulation) to the private and other non-government sectors of the economy

CropLife Australia

represents the developers, registrants, manufacturers and formulators of plant science solutions for use in agriculture and the management of pests in other settings

drumMUSTER

the Australian national program for the collection and recycling of empty, cleaned, non-returnable crop production and on-farm animal health chemical containers

elapsed time

the overall time take for the APVMA to determine the outcome for an application for registration. It includes statutory time and applicant time in addressing deficiencies with applications

FOI Act

Freedom of Information Act 1982

grandfathered products

all products that were registered under the transitional arrangements between the Commonwealth of Australia and the states and territory governments that existed at the time of the creation of the APVMA (then the National Registration Authority) in March 1995

label

directions for a product’s safe and effective use attached to a container

licence

authority to manufacture veterinary medicines according to s.123 of the Agvet Code

Minor Use

a use that would not produce sufficient economic return to an applicant to meet the cost of registering the product for that use

nanotechnology

refers to the design, characterisation and application of materials engineered at a molecular (nanometre) level to take advantage of their small size and/or novel properties. Although there is no agreed national or international definition of a nanomaterial, the general consensus in the scientific community is that a nanomaterial is engineered to measure approximately1 to 100 nm in at least one dimension. One nanometre is one-billionth of a metre, or 100 000 times less than the width of a human hair.

pesticides

also known as agricultural chemical products

registrant

a person who, or a company that, registers a pesticide or veterinary medicine product for use in Australia

salmonoids

of, belonging to, or characteristic of the family Salmonidae, which includes the salmon, trout, and whitefish

spinosad

a new chemical class of insecticides whose active ingredient is derived from a naturally occurring soil dwelling bacterium and is used to control a variety of insects

statutory time

the legislatively prescribed timeframe in which the APVMA must process applications for registration

timeshift

a system of phased submission that allows applicants to submit an application for which not all the data are complete

Uhrig (review)

Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders, 2003