The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2004

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. 3) Regulations 2004.”.

(3) In Schedule 1 the entry for Omethoate shall be omitted.

(4) In Part 2 of Schedule 2:

(a) for the entry for food group 1(vi) , Miscellaneous Fruit, Papaya:

(i) in the column headed Aramite, there shall be substituted “0.01*”;

(ii) in the column headed Diphenylamine, there shall be substituted “0.05*”;

(b) the column relating to the pesticide Omethoate shall be omitted;

(c) for the column relating to the pesticide Bromopropylate there shall be substituted the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Bromopropylate as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(5) On 26th January 2005:

(a) in Schedule 1:

(i) the entry for Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) shall be omitted;

(ii) the following entries shall be inserted at the appropriate places in columns 1 and 2 to preserve the alphabetical ordering in column 1:

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
1,2-Dichloroethane	1,2-Dichloroethane
Ethylene oxide	Ethylene oxide (sum of ethylene oxide and2-chloro-ethanol expressed as ethylene oxide)
HCH (Hexachlorocyclohexane)	HCH, sum of isomers except the gamma isomer
Nitrofen	Nitrofen

(iii) the following entries shall be substituted for the corresponding existing entries:

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Aldrin and Dieldrin	(1) For products of plant origin other than cereals: Aldrin and Dieldrin combined expressed as Dieldrin (2) For cereals and foodstuffs of animal origin: Aldrin and Dieldrin singly or combined, expressed as Dieldrin (HEOD)
Camphechlor (Toxaphene)	(1) For products of plant origin other than cereals: Camphechlor (Toxaphene) (2) For cereals: Camphechlor (chlorinated camphen with 67-69% chlorine) (3) For foodstuffs of animal origin: Camphechlor (sum of the three indicator compounds Parlar No. 26 (2-endo, 3-exo,5-endo, 6-exo, 8, 8, 10, 10-octachlorobornane), Parlar No. 50 (2-endo, 3-exo, 5-endo, 6-exo, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10-nonachlorobornane) and Parlar No. 62 (2, 2, 5, 5, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10-nonachlorobornane)
Chlordane	(1) For products of plant origin other than cereals: Chlordane (sum of cis- and trans-chlordane) (2) For cereals: Chlordane (sum of cis- and trans-isomers) (3) For foodstuffs of animal origin: (sum of cis- and trans-isomers and oxychlordane expressed as chlordane)
Mercury compounds	Sum of mercury compounds expressed as mercury

(b) in Part 1 of Schedule 2 the columns relating to Aldrin and Dieldrin, Chlordane and Mercury compounds shall be omitted;

(c) in Part 2 of Schedule 2:

(i) the columns relating to Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) shall be omitted;

(ii) there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering, the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides 1,2-Dichloroethane, Ethylene oxide, HCH (Hexachlorocyclohexane), Hexachlorobenzene, Mercury compounds and Nitrofen as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(iii) for the columns relating to the pesticides Aldrin and Dieldrin, Binapacryl, Camphechlor (Toxaphene), Captafol, Chlordane, 1,2-Dibromoethane and Dinoseb there shall be substituted the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(iv) for footnote 40 there shall be substituted:

“40.   Where there are two columns the MRLs relate to the sum of alpha isomers (left hand column) and the sum of beta isomers (right hand column).”.

(1)

S.I. 1999/3483, amended by S.I. 2001/1113, S.I. 2001/2420, S.I. 2001/3834, S.I. 2002/1767, S.I. 2002/2723, S.I. 2003/661, S.I. 2003/2591, S.I. 2004/676 and S.I. 2004/1393.

(2)

OJ No. L221, 7.8.86, p.37. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2004/61/EC (OJ No. L127, 29.4.2004, p.81).

(3)

OJ No. L221, 7.8.86, p.43. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2004/61/EC (OJ No. L127, 29.4.2004, p.81).

(4)

OJ No. L350, 14.12.90, p.71. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2004/61/EC (OJ No. L127, 29.4.2004, p.81).