Change in Data Protection (CSI) Business Rules

Under the Animal Remedies and Pesticides Acts, the same innovative active ingredient can have separate data protection periods under both Acts. Once the ACVM Act is implemented, there will be a single data protection period.

A paper was presented to the recent Animal Remedies and Pesticides Boards meetings, and the approach that the ACVM Group will take in the immediate future and as we move into the ACVM Act transition period was agreed. The complete paper is available on the website under Publications/Information papers/ACVM processes.

The following proposals were agreed by the Boards and will come into effect immediately:

1. The Boards will not attempt to source data from other bodies where there is a data protection period in existence for an active ingredient under their own Act. The applicant must supply complete data packages in this instance.
2. The Boards will supply protected data only where required (for instance, to ERMA NZ under the HSNO Act for transitional activity) on the undertaking that it will be given the same protection (for the same period) by the recipient agency.
3. The Boards will not supply data to each other as a means of avoiding the data protection provisions in other Acts.
4. In the transition period and for the time remaining for any data protection period under the ACVM Act, MAF will continue to act as if the Animal Remedies and Pesticides Acts were still in existence as regards data protection periods.
5. The Boards will accept a letter of consent from the owner of data that is under CSI, rather than request new data in future. It is understood that the data being cross-referenced should meet the current relevant standard/s.