Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Saudi Arabia Plans Stronger Penalties for Banned and Counterfeit Pesticides
A brand new draft regulation has proposed strict penalties for manufacturing or importing banned or counterfeit pesticides. The proposal features a most jail sentence of 5 years and a superb of as much as SR10 million.
The Ministry of Surroundings, Water, and Agriculture introduced that it has urged updating the penalties article below the Pesticides Regulation utilized in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) international locations.
The draft clearly states that anybody who manufactures or imports banned or counterfeit pesticides could withstand 5 years in jail, a superb of as much as SR10,000,000, or considered one of these two penalties. The Public Prosecution will examine these violations and refer instances to the competent courtroom to implement the penalties. If the offender repeats the violation, the Public Prosecution could double the penalty.
The draft additionally defined that the Saudi Meals and Drug Authority (SFDA) is answerable for reviewing violations associated to public well being pesticides. The SFDA will impose penalties and approve them by way of its president or a licensed official.
The ministry and the SFDA could require the violator to right the violation once they apply penalties. Repeated offenses could lead to a doubled superb. A violation is taken into account a repeat offense if it occurs inside three years of the earlier violation.
The draft additionally permits violators to attraction penalty choices earlier than the Administrative Court docket, in accordance with its rules.
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