Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 567

      The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1997 No. 567

AGRICULTURE

PESTICIDES

The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

  Made 4th March 1997 
  Laid before Parliament 5th March 1997 
  Coming into force 30th April 1997 

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and interpretation
     1 .  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 30th April 1997.

    (2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations 1994[3].

Amendment of the principal Regulations
     2 . The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6 of these Regulations.

     3 . In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations - 

    (a) there shall be inserted in column 1 in their appropriate alphabetically ordered positions the pesticides stated in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations and, in relation to each such pesticide, there shall be entered in column 2 the residues stated in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations opposite that pesticide;

    (b) for the residues stated in column 2 opposite the pesticide Dicofol there shall be substituted the words "sum of P, P' and O, P' isomers".

     4 . In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations - 

     5 . In Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, references to each pesticide stated at the head of a column in Schedule 2 to these Regulations together with the figures stated below the statement of that pesticide so that those figures will appear opposite such groups of products or such individual products in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations as they appear opposite those products in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

     6 . The maximum levels of pesticides per kilogramme of the individual products stated opposite the names of such products in Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall be substituted for the corresponding maximum levels specified for those products in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations.

Angela Browning
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

3rd March 1997

Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

4th March 1997


SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 3

Column 1 Column 2
Pesticide Residues
Chlormequat chlormequat
Disulfoton sum of disulfoton, disulfoton sulphoxide and disulfoton sulphone expressed as disulfoton
Fenbutatin oxide fenbutatin oxide
Fentin fentin expressed as triphenyltin cation
Mecarbam mecarbam
Phorate sum of phorate, its osygen analogue and their sulfoxides and sulphones expressed as phorate
Propoxur propoxur
Propyzamide propyzamide
Triforine triforine

Notes:

 [1] S.I. 1972/1811. back

[2] 1972 c.68. back

[3] S.I. 1994/1985, amended by S.I. 1995/1483 and 1996/1487. back

 
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