The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2001

Title, commencement and extent

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2001; they extend to England and Wales only, and shall come into force on 1st August 2001.

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(1) 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(2), Council Directive 86/363/EEC(3) and Council Directive 90/642/EEC(4), 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) (No. 2) Regulations 2001.”.

(3) In Schedule 1 there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in columns 1 and 2 the following:

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Azinphos-ethyl	azinphos-ethyl
Chlozolinate	chlozolinate
Dinoterb	dinoterb
DNOC	DNOC
Monolinuron	monolinuron
Propham	propham
Pyrazophos	pyrazophos
Spiroxamine	spiroxamine
Tecnazene	tecnazene

(4) On 1st July 2003, the entry for the pesticide Tecnazene in relation to lettuce shall be deleted from Part 1 to Schedule 2.

(5) In each column of Part 2 of Schedule 2, where the expression “(changing 1 July 2001)” appears at the top, that expression shall be deleted and so shall each entry in italic type to which it refers.

(6) In Part 2 of Schedule 2, there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides specified in the Schedule to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified.

(7) In Part 2 of Schedule 2 maximum residue levels shall be substituted as follows—

(a) for mg/kg of chlormequat—

(i) on pears delete “0.05*” and insert “0.5”,

(ii) on both olives (table consumption) and olives (oil extract) delete “0.05*” and insert “0.1*”, and

(iii) on cultivated mushrooms delete “0.05*” and insert “10”;

(b) for mg/kg of chlorothalonil—

(i) on blackberries delete “0.01*” and insert “10”, and

(ii) on bananas delete “2” and insert “0.2”;

(c) for mg/kg of dicofol—

(i) on table grapes delete “0.02*” and insert “2”, and

(ii) on tomatoes delete “0.02*” and insert “1”;

(d) for mg/kg of diphenylamine—

(i) on apples delete “0.05*” and insert “5”, and

(ii) on pears delete “0.05*” and insert “10”;

(e) for mg/kg of endosulfan on peppers delete “0.05*” and insert “1”.

(8) The following footnotes shall be added at the end of Part 2 of Schedule 2—

“37   The residues definition for this MRL is: spiroxamine carboxylic acid expressed as spiroxamine.

38   Scarole includes broad-leaf endive.

39   Liver and kidney.”

Whitty,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

25th June 2001

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

Elis Thomas

Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales

5th July 2001