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2.—(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—
“the 1985 Act” means the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 M1;
“active substance” means any substance or micro-organism, including a virus, having general or specific action against harmful organisms or on plants, parts of plants or plant products;
“animals” means animals belonging to species normally fed and kept or consumed by man;
“approval” in relation to a plant protection product means an administrative act under these Regulations by which the Secretary of State, following an application submitted by an applicant, approves the placing on the market or use of that plant protection product in the whole or any part of England and Wales, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;
“the Commission” means the Commission of the European Communities;
“contravenes” includes “fails to comply with”;
[F1“the Directive” means Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, as amended by the instruments listed in Schedule 1;]
“EEA State” means a member State, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein;
“the environment” means water, air, land, wild species of fauna and flora, and any interrelationship between them, as well as any relationship with living organisms;
“equivalent provision” means any provision in any other Regulations made for the purposes of implementing the Directive, extending to any part of the United Kingdom, which has equivalent effect to a specified provision in these Regulations;
“harmful organisms” means pests of plants or plant products belonging to the animal or plant kingdom, viruses, bacteria and mycoplasmas and other pathogens;
“integrated control” means the rational application of a combination of biological, biotechnological, chemical, cultural or plant-breeding measures whereby the use of chemical plant protection products is limited to the minimum strictly necessary to maintain harmful organisms below levels above which economically unacceptable damage or loss would occur;
“International Organisation for Standardization” means the institution of that name founded in 1947 and currently having its headquarters at 1 Rue de Varembé, CP 56, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland;
“International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry” means the institution of that name founded in 1919 and currently having its headquarters at 104 T.W. Alexander Drive, Building 19, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA;
“new active substance” means an active substance which is not an old active substance;
“old active substance” means an active substance which was on the market—
in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia, on or before 1st May 2004;
in Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Liechtenstein, on or before 1st July 1994;
in any other EEA State, on or before 26th July 1993;
“placing on the market” means any supply, whether in return for payment or not, within England and Wales, including importation into England and Wales otherwise than from an EEA State, other than a supply for storage followed by consignment otherwise than to an EEA State or disposal, and “place on the market” shall be construed accordingly;
“plants” means live plants and live parts of plants including fresh fruit and seeds;
“plant products” means products derived from plants in the unprocessed state or having undergone only simple preparation such as milling, drying or pressing, but excludes plants themselves;
“plant protection product” means an active substance or a preparation containing one or more active substances, put up in the form in which it is supplied to the user, intended to—
protect plants or plant products against all harmful organisms or prevent the action of such organisms;
influence (for example, as a growth regulator) the life processes of plants, otherwise than as a nutrient;
preserve plant products, in so far as such active substances or preparations are not subject to provisions of Community law on preservatives;
destroy undesired plants; or
destroy parts of plants or check or prevent the undesired growth of plants;
“preparation” means a mixture or solution composed of two or more substances, of which at least one is an active substance, and which is intended for use as a plant protection product;
“the 1986 Regulations” means the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 M2;
“the relevant competent authorities” means the authorities appointed in the member States, other than the United Kingdom, for the purpose of carrying out the duties of a competent authority under the Directive;
“residue” in relation to a plant protection product means one or more substances present in or on plants or products of plant origin, edible animal products or elsewhere in the environment and resulting from the use of that plant protection product, and includes its metabolites and products resulting from its degradation or reaction;
“substance” means any chemical element and its compounds, as they occur naturally or by manufacture, and includes any impurity inevitably resulting from the manufacturing process;
and other terms used in these Regulations and in the Directive shall have the same meaning as in the Directive.
(2) In these Regulations—
(a)any reference to a numbered Article shall be construed as a reference to the Article so numbered in the Directive; and
(b)any reference to a numbered Annex shall be construed as a reference to the Annex so numbered of the Directive.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (12.12.2005) by The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3197), regs. 1, 2(2)
Marginal Citations
M11985 c. 48; section 19 was amended by the Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989 (c. 27), section 2, and by the Pesticides Act 1998 (c. 26), section 2.
M2S.I. 1986/1510, amended by S.I. 1997/188, 2001/880.
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