On Tuesday, September 2^nd, 2025, Act #40, dated September 1^st, 2025 (“Act #40/2025”), was published in the Federal Register (“DOU”), which establishes that the protocol for requesting registration of agrochemicals and related products must now be submitted exclusively through the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (“MAPA”), using its Electronic Information System (“SEI/MAPA”). This rule will take effect on September 15, 2025.

Currently, requests to register agrochemical products are submitted to the three regulatory authorities involved in the procedure: MAPA (the registering authority), the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (“IBAMA”), and the Brazilian FDA (“ANVISA”), as specified in Article 10 of Decree #4,074/2002. In practical terms, the recent issuance by MAPA standardizes and centralizes the procedure for receiving and processing petitions related to the registration of these products.

In this context, Act #40/2025, in addition to establishing MAPA as coordinator of the agrochemical product registration process, as per Article 4, paragraph 5, item VI, of Law #14,785/2023 (“New Agrochemicals Law”), aims to comply with the provisions of its Article 12, according to which the registration request must be submitted to MAPA, which has the authority to distribute the requests to the other agencies involved in the process through a computerized system. It is worth noting that this unification also addresses a long-standing concern regarding the lack of standardization in the construction of agrochemical queues adopted by each authority, which was raised within the scope of Audit #TC 007.951/2019-1, which was processed at the General Accounting Office (“TCU”).

Therefore, Act #40/2025 regulates an essential part of the changes in the procedure for registering agrochemical and related products established following the enactment of the New Agrochemicals Law, while also meeting the guidance provided in Opinion #29/2024/DECOR/CGU/AGU, which established the immediate applicability of this law, by recognizing that the Legislator did not specify any period before it came into effect.

Under the updated framework, MAPA will handle forwarding procedures to the relevant agencies for their specific assessments, based on the technical and operational capacity reported by each institution. Starting September 15, 2025, submitting new registration requests or post-registration requests to ANVISA and IBAMA will no longer be allowed.

Thus, as part of the implementation of the provisions set forth in the New Agrochemicals Law, Act #40/2025 reveals MAPA's commitment to ensuring greater efficiency, transparency, traceability, and predictability in the process of analyzing requests for agrochemical registration and to using SEI/MAPA as the official protocol platform within the Ministry.

The publication of Act #40/2025 in the Federal Register is available here.

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