§ Baroness Billinghamasked Her Majesty's Government:
What targets they have set the Pesticides Safety Directorate for 2001–02. [HL2152]
§ Baroness HaymanThe Pesticides Safety Directorate has been set the following performance targets for 2001–02.
Service Quality
- To deliver the throughput of applications and processing times set out in the plan.
- To deliver high quality policy advice to Ministers and positively respond to their policy objectives.
- To deliver high quality scientific work.
- To implement a quality scheme: the objective will be to provide a framework that enables an improvement in quality, efficiency and consistency (verified by customer satisfaction results).
Efficiency
To achieve efficiency savings of 2 per cent in administration costs.
Financial Control
To recover from industry and Government the full economic cost (calculated according to resource principles) of its services.
Plan Table 1. New Substances and Reviews Application type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks) New Active Substances Sift 8 8 6 Evaluation—full 8 7 48 —resubmission 4 4 48 Post Annex 1 Approvals 30 30 — Reviews—UK UK anticholinesterase review programme — 15 — —full reviews Other UK review activity 3 9 — UK review regulatory notices — 26 — Reviews—EC EU rapporteur reviews — — — Total 53 99 *90% The figures for new substances and reviews are based on work in hand and forecasts from industry and the commission.
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Table 2. Technical Secretariat Application type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks) Normal 165 180 35 Associated Fast-Normals 55 60 35 Departmental Normal 5 5 45 Departmental Experimental Approval 2 2 45 Departmental Off Label 1 1 45
Table 2. Technical Secretariat Application type Planned receipts Planned completions Processing time (weeks) Assessed Experimental Approval 2 2 20 Extrapolated Experimental Approval 2 2 10 Emergency Off Label 25 25 10 Non-emergency Off Label 40 40 30 Fast 220 220 10 Parallel imports 50 50 10 Administrative Fast 650 650 4 Administrative Experimental 100 100 1 Simplified own-use parallel 10 10 2 Mutual recognition 3 3 20 Total 1,330 1,350 — Total (Tables 1 & 2) 1,383 1,449 *90% * Overall targets—90 per cent of applications with a stated processing time must be completed within that time.