Ministerial Decree No. 1018 of 2013 concerning registration, handling and use of agricultural pesticides in Egypt.

This Decree establishes that the Agricultural Pesticides Committee is the sole statutory Agency responsible for registration and handling of agricultural pesticides in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The APC monitors the laboratory and agriculture practices for quality assurance and endorses every action that contributes to the rational use of pesticides and the implementation of IPM policies and strategies. The APC is also entitled to restrict the handling and use of registered pesticides, especially highly toxic pesticides, to protect the public and environmental health, together with the safety of the agricultural crops and products. In such a case, APC specifies the permissible amounts of those pesticides and regulates their modes of handling, trade and application, in line with the "Code of Conduct" issued by the FAO. Rules, actions and competencies remain the same as in the previous Decree.
Art.28 establishes that Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) of the Codex Alimentarius or the EU, or the tolerance values set by the US-EPA apply to the agricultural crops and products in the same order. If these values are not available for a pesticide on/in a certain crop or product, the values of this pesticide on/in the closest group of crops or products are applied in the aforementioned preferential order.