Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 10th October 2005.

2

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19543 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20022

1

The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20024 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/EEC5, Council Directive 86/363/EEC6 and Council Directive 90/642/EEC7, in each case amended as at the date of the making of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.

3

In Schedule 1, for the entries for Metalaxyl and Metalaxyl-M there shall be substituted the following entries:

Column 1

Column 2

Pesticide

Residues

Metalaxyl

1

for products of plant origin other than cereals: metalaxyl including other mixtures of constituent isomers including metalaxyl-m (sum of isomers)

2

for cereals and foodstuffs of animal origin: metalaxyl

Metalaxyl-M

for cereals: metalaxyl-m

4

In Part II of Schedule 2, for the columns relating to the pesticides Azoxystrobin, Fenhexamid, Fenpropimorph, Iprovalicarb, Maneb Mancozeb Metiram Propineb Zineb, Metalaxyl, Metalaxyl-M, Methomyl thiodicarb, Myclobutanil and Penconazole there shall be substituted the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 24th August 2005.

D. SmallA senior officer of theDepartment of Agriculture and Rural Development