This preliminary report contains a proposal for a revised federal pest management regulatory system. The report was developed by an independent multi-stakeholder team assembled by the Minister of Agriculture to recommend improvements to the existing federal pesticide regulatory system. It formed the basis for a series of public consultation meetings held in the fall of 1990, after which the review team submitted its final report and recommendations to the Minister in December 1990. This report covers the background to the establishment of the review team; describes the public meetings and public participation; and discusses the proposed regulatory system, including its administration, the application of the new regulations, the evaluations and decisions made, the change in status from the previous regulations, monitoring and enforcement, export policy, and price discipline mechanisms. A minority report from the Canadian Labour Congress is included.