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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2004 No. 676
AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND AND WALES
PESTICIDES, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2004
Made
9th March 2004
Laid before Parliament
10th March 2004
Coming into force
31st March 2004
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales being 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 (the National Assembly for Wales acting in relation to Wales only), in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section, hereby make the following Regulations:
Title, extent and commencement 1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004, extend to England and Wales and come into force on 31st March 2004.
Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 2.
- (1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999[3] shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of the Residues Directives there shall be substituted the following definition:
"
"the Residues Directives" means Council Directive 86/362/EEC[4], Council Directive 86/363/EEC[5] and Council Directive 90/642/EEC[6], in each case amended as at the date of the making of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004.".
(3) In Schedule 1, in column 2, for the residue entries for Metalaxyl-M there shall be substituted "metalaxyl-M".
(4) In Part 2 of Schedule 2 -
(a) in the column headed Prochloraz, for the entry for food group 3, Pulses, Peas there shall be substituted "0.3";
(b) for the columns relating to the pesticides Abamectin, 2,4-D, and Diquat there shall be substituted the columns of maximum permitted levels for residue of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.
(5) On 1st December 2004 -
(a) in Schedule 1, in column 2, for the residue of Parathion-methyl there shall be substituted "Parathion-methyl (sum of Parathion-methyl and para-oxon-methyl expressed as Parathion-methyl)";
(b) in Part 1 of Schedule 2, the column for the pesticide Parathion-methyl shall be deleted;
(c) in Part 2 of Schedule 2 -
(i) there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering, the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Parathion-methyl as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;
(ii) for the column relating to the pesticide Acephate there shall be substituted the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Acephate as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales
John Marek
Deputy Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales
9th March 2004
Alun Michael
Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
These Regulations which extend to England and Wales, are made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and further amend the provisions of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3483).
The Regulations implement Commission Directive 2003/118/EC and corrigenda (OJ No. L342, 30.12.2003, p.58, OJ No. L14, 21.1.2004, p. 55) to Commission Directives 2002/79/EC (OJ No. L291, 28.10.2002, p.1) and 2003/60/EC (OJ No. L155, 24.6.2003, p.15).
The definition of "the Residues Directives" is updated (regulation 2(2)).
In Schedule 1, the residue entries for Metalaxyl-M are corrected (regulation 2(3)).
In Part 2 of Schedule 2 the maximum permitted levels of residue for the pesticides Abamectin and Diquat are corrected and the maximum residue levels for 2,4-D on citrus fruits are amended (regulation 2(4)).
On 1st December 2004 the entry for the residue of Parathion-methyl is amended. In addition, the entry for Parathion-methyl which sets national maximum residue levels for the pesticide is deleted from Part 1 of Schedule 2 and replaced by a new entry in Part 2 of Schedule 2 establishing the Community maximum residue levels for the pesticide (regulation 2(5)).
On the same date the existing maximum residue levels for Acephate which are set out in Part 2 of Schedule 2 are replaced with new maximum residue levels (regulation 2(5)).