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AgVetLink February 2004: Page 1

What’s coming up

• An AVMAC meeting will be held in Wellington on 20 February 2004 with an Industry Liaison Group meeting planned for the same date.
• The ACVM Group is planning a series of ‘roadshows’ for veterinarians to address concerns and confusion over the implementation of the ACVM Act relating to PAR products. Dates will be available shortly in a special edition AgVetLink for veterinarians, which will be available on the website.
• The ACVM Group has been invited to address an Agcarm special general meeting being held in February in Auckland.
• An OECD registration steering group meeting will be held in Paris in February in conjunction with the meeting of the working group on pesticides and the joint meeting of the chemicals committee. John Reeve will attend these meetings.
• A VICH ‘future directions’ meeting will be held in March. Debbie Morris will attend this meeting to represent the views of the observer countries (Australia, New Zealand and Canada). The draft paper will be circulated to the New Zealand industry and regulatory agencies as soon as it is available. The outcomes of the meeting will be presented to the next VICH steering group meeting in April 2004.

Reminder : Update Products Now!!!

Registrants are reminded that products must be updated to the new legislation by 1 July 2004.

Details of the process are available in the December 2003 AgVetLink ‘Special Edition for Registrants’, which is available free of charge on the ACVM Group website (http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/acvm).