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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
PESTICIDES
Made
19th July 2001
Coming into operation
23rd August 2001
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a Department 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, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, and shall come into operation on 23rd August 2001.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(3) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
2. Regulation 2(1) of the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(4) shall be amended by substituting for the definition of “the Directive” the following definition—
““the Directive” means Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market(5), as amended by—
Commission Directive 1999/73/EC(18);
Commission Directive 1999/80/EC(19);
Commission Directive 2000/10/EC(20);
Commission Directive 2000/49/EC(21);
Commission Directive 2000/50/EC(22);”.
3. The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(23) are hereby revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 19th July 2001.
L.S.
Liam McKibben
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 371), as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 471, S.R. 1997 No. 507 and S.R. 2000 No. 24 (“the principal Regulations”) which implement in Northern Ireland Council Directive 91/414/EEC (O.J. No. L230, 19.8.91, p. 1 to be read with the Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L170, 25.6.92, p. 40) concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (“the Directive”), as amended.
The Regulations amend the definition of the Directive provided in the principal Regulations in consequence of Commission Directive 2000/10/EC (O.J. No. L57, 2.3.2000, p. 28), Commission Directive 2000/49/EC (O.J. No. L197, 3.8.2000, p. 32) and Commission Directive 2000/50/EC (O.J. No. L198, 4.8.2000, p. 39) which add fluroxypyr, metsulfuron-methyl and prohexadione-calcium respectively to Annex I to the Directive.
The Regulations revoke the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 24) which made amendments that are consolidated in the amendments made by the present Regulations.
S.R. 1995 No. 371, amended by S.R. 1997 Nos. 471 and 507 and S.R. 2000 No. 24 (S.R. 2000 No. 24 is revoked by the present Regulations)
O.J. No. L230, 19.8.91, p. l (to be read with Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L170, 25.6.92, p. 40)
O.J. No. L221, 31.8.93, p. 27 (to be read with Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L4, 6.1.96, p.16)
O.J. No. L194, 29.7.94, p. 65
O.J. No. L354, 31.12.94, p. 16 (to be read with Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L280, 23.11.95, p. 58)
O.J. No. L172, 22.7.95, p. 6
O.J. No. L172, 22.7.95, p. 8
O.J. No. L65, 15.3.96, p. 20
O.J. No. L214, 23.8.96, p. 18
O.J. No. L277, 30.10.96, p. 25
O.J. No. L265, 27.9.97, p. 87
O.J. No. L353, 24.12.97, p. 26
O.J. No. L191, 7.7.98, p. 50
O.J. No. L21, 28.1.99, p. 21
O.J. No. L206, 5.8.99, p. 16
O.J. No. L210, 10.8.99, p. 13
O.J. No. L57, 2.3.2000, p. 28
O.J. No. L197, 3.8.2000, p. 32
O.J. No. L198, 4.8.2000, p. 39
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