Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) has temporarily suspended the registration of new agrochemical components on SISPA, its unified digital platform for pesticide petitions and evaluations, while it reworks the software module behind them.
The suspension was set out in Notice No. 1, dated 16 October 2026 and published in the federal gazette, the Diário Oficial da União, on 19 October. MAPA said the pause was needed to adjust the component registration module so that it works better and makes filing simpler for companies.
Companies can keep migrating records for technical, or active-ingredient, products into SISPA, but they cannot register new components, the formulants, solvents and other building-block substances that go into finished pesticide products, until the work is done. The ministry gave no date for reopening and said new guidelines and a revised schedule would follow once the module is ready.
SISPA was launched on 26 May 2026 to bring together registration steps previously split between MAPA, the health regulator ANVISA and the environment agency IBAMA, part of the push under Brazil's 2023 pesticide law reform to shorten approval times that have long lagged behind the United States and the European Union.
The rollout has been stop-start. In August MAPA extended the component registration deadlines set in May after industry raised concerns about the timetable; the October notice goes further and pauses the module outright. Firms with component filings under way will have to wait, or resubmit, once it reopens.
The pause does not affect migration of technical products, the separate re-evaluations by ANVISA and IBAMA, or products already registered and on sale. It touches only companies that were registering a new formulant or other non-active component when it took effect.
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Source: Global Agriculture
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