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Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 432

AGRICULTURE, ENGLAND AND WALES

PESTICIDES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Made

1st March 2005

Laid before Parliament

3rd March 2005

Coming into force

26th March 2005

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales being designated M1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 M2 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly (the National Assembly for Wales acting in relation to Wales only), in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section, hereby make the following Regulations:

Marginal Citations

M1S.I. 1972/1811 and, in the case of the National Assembly for Wales, S.I. 1999/2788.

Title, extent and commencementE+W

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2005, extend to England and Wales and come into force on 26th March 2005.

Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999E+W

2.—(1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 M3 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 M4, Council Directive 86/363/EEC M5 and Council Directive 90/642/EEC M6, 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) Regulations 2005..

(3) In Part 2 of Schedule 2, for the columns relating to the pesticides Bifenthrin and Famoxadone there shall be substituted the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Marginal Citations

M3S.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, S.I. 2004/1393 and S.I. 2004/2559.

M4OJ 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).

M5OJ 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).

M6OJ No. L350, 14.12.90, p. 71. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2004/95/EC (OJ No. L301, 28.9.2004, p. 42).

D. Elis-Thomas

Presiding Officer National Assembly for Wales

22nd February 2005

Alun Michael

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

1st March 2005

Regulation 2(3)

SCHEDULEE+W

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations which extend to England and Wales, are made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and further amend the provisions of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3483).

The Regulations implement Commission Directive 2004/95/EC (OJ No. L301, 28.9.2004, p. 42).

The definition of “the Residues Directives” is updated (regulation 2(2)).

New maximum residue levels are substituted in Part 2 of Schedule 2 for residues of the pesticides Bifenthrin and Famoxadone (regulation 2(3)).