The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3483

AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND AND WALES

PESTICIDES

The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

22nd December 1999

Coming into force

1st February 2000

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”), being a Minister 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 in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2(2), and, in respect of the provisions of these Regulations relating to Part 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, the Minister and the Secretary of State, acting jointly in relation to England, and the Minister and the National Assembly for Wales, acting jointly in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 16(2) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(3), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 16(9) of the said Act of 1985 with the Advisory Committee on Pesticides established under section 16(7) of that Act(4), hereby make the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(2)

1972 c. 68; the powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51).

(3)

1985 c. 48; see section 24(1) for a definition of “the Ministers” and section 24(3) on the exercise of this power. Section 16 was amended by the Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989 (c. 27) and by the Pesticides Act 1998 (c. 26), and the functions of the Secretary of State under section 16(2) of the 1985 Act were transferred, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(4)

Established by S.I. 1985/1516.