Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 636

PESTICIDES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Made

1st March 2007

Laid before Parliament

7th March 2007

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(3)

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales are 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, they make the following Regulations:

Citation, interpretation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2007.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005(3).

(3) These Regulations come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 2(3), on 1st July 2007;

(b) for the purposes of regulation 2(4), on 1st November 2007;

(c) for the purposes of regulation 2(5), on 1st December 2007;

(d) for the purposes of regulation 2(6), on 1st February 2008;

(e) for all other purposes on 31st March 2007.

Amendment to the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) At the end of Schedule 1 (instruments amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC), insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(3) At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(4) At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 3 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(5) At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 4 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(6) At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 5 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

Dafydd Ellis-Thomas

Presiding Officer

National Assembly for Wales

1st March 2007

Jeff Rooker

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

1st March 2007

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

PART 1 ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 31st MARCH 2007

Instruments Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/75/EC(4); dimoxystrobin
Commission Directive 2006/76/EC(5); None

PART 2 ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st JULY 2007

Instruments Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/131/EC(6); methamidophos
Commission Directive 2006/132/EC(7); procymidone
Commission Directive 2006/133/EC(8); flusilazole
Commission Directive 2006/134/EC(9); fenarimol
Commission Directive 2006/135/EC(10); carbendazim
Commission Directive 2006/136/EC(11); dinocap

PART 3 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st NOVEMBER 2007

Instruments Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/64/EC(12); clopyralid, cyprodinil, fosetyl and trinexapac

PART 4 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st DECEMBER 2007

Instruments Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/74/EC(13); dichlorprop-P, metconazole, pyrimethanil and triclopyr

PART 5 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st FEBRUARY 2008

Instruments Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/85/EC(14); fenamiphos and ethephon

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1435) (“the principal Regulations”) which implement in England and Wales Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ No. L230, 19.8.91, p.1, as read with corrigenda published in OJ No. L170, 25.6.92, p.40).

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, which sets out the instruments that amend that Directive, is amended by the insertion of the entries set out in the five Parts of the Schedule to these Regulations.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811 and, in the case of the National Assembly for Wales, S.I. 2005/2766. Back [1]

(3)

S.I. 2005/1435, amended by S.I. 2005/3197, S.I. 2006/1295 and S.I. 2006/2933. Back [3]

(4)

OJ No. L248, 12.9.2006, p. 3. Back [4]

(5)

OJ No. L263, 23.9.2006, p. 9. Back [5]

(6)

OJ No. L349, 12.12.2006, p. 17. Back [6]

(7)

OJ No. L349, 12.12.2006, p. 22. Back [7]

(8)

OJ No. L349, 12.12.2006, p. 27. Back [8]

(9)

OJ No. L349, 12.12.2006, p. 32. Back [9]

(10)

OJ No. L349, 12.12.2006, p. 37. Back [10]

(11)

OJ No. L349, 12.12.2006, p. 42. Back [11]

(12)

OJ No. L206, 27.7.2006, p. 107. Back [12]

(13)

OJ No. L235, 30.8.2006, p. 17. Back [13]

(14)

OJ No. L293, 24.10.2006, p. 3. Back [14]