§ Lord Dubsasked Her Majesty's Government:
What targets they have set the Pesticide Safety Directorate for 2000–01, [HL2281]
§ Baroness HaymanMy right honourable friend the Minister set the Pesticide Safety Directorate the following performance targets for 2000–01.
Quality of Service
1. To deliver the throughput of applications and processing times set out in the plan.
2. To deliver high quality policy advice to Ministers and respond positively to their policy objectives.
3. To deliver high quality scientific work.
4. To respond positively to the results of the Customer Satisfaction Survey.
Efficiency
5. To meet the efficiency indicator targets in the agreed Efficiency Plan.
Financial Performance
6. To recover from industry and Government the full economic cost (calculated according to resource accounting principles) of its services
7. To operate within 95 per cent and 100 per cent of allocations by the MAFF Management Board for running costs, capital and receipts.
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PLAN New Substances and Reviews Application Type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks) New Active Substances: 15 12 6 Sift 13 12 52 Evaluation—full resubmission 7 6 52 Reviews—UK UK anticholinesterase review programme—full reviews 2 7 — Other UK review activity 10 16 — Reviews—EC EU rapporteur reviews Position on Annex 1 decisions 11 10 — Total 58 63 90%* The figures for New Substances and Reviews are based on work in hand and forecasts from Industry and the Commission.
Technical Secretariat Application Type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks) Normal 320 350 39 Departmental Normal 10 10 48 Experimental Permit Departmental 5 5 26 Experimental Permit 5 5 48 Extrapolated Experimental Approval 10 10 13 Emergency Off Label 25 25 10 Non-Emergency Off Label 40 40 32 Fast 220 220 13 Parallel Imports 50 50 10 Administrative Fast 550 550 4 Post Annex 1 Approvals 55 55 — Mutual Recognition 5 5 26 Other 5 30 — Total 1,300 1,355 — Total of Tables 1 & 2 1,358 1,418 90%* Overall targets—90% of applications with a stated processing time must be completed within that time.