The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1295

PESTICIDES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2006

Made

10th May 2006

Laid before Parliament

11th May 2006

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1 (3) to (9)

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales being 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 jointly (the National Assembly for Wales acting in relation to Wales only), in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section, make the following Regulations:

Citation, interpretation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2006.

(2) In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005(3).

(3) Subject to paragraph (4) to (9), these Regulations shall come into force on 1st June 2006.

(4) Regulation 4 shall come into force on 1st September 2006.

(5) Regulation 5 shall come into force on 1st October 2006.

(6) Regulation 6 shall come into force on 1st November 2006.

(7) Regulation 7 shall come into force on 1st January 2007.

(8) Regulation 8 shall come into force on 1st February 2007.

(9) Regulation 9 shall come into force on 1st April 2007.

Amendment to the Principal Regulations

2.  The Principal Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 9.

Amendment coming into force on 1st June 2006

3.  At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendment coming into force on 1st September 2006

4.  At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendment coming into force on 1st October 2006

5.  At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 3 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendment coming into force on 1st November 2006

6.  At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 4 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendment coming into force on 1st January 2007

7.  At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 5 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendment coming into force on 1st February 2007

8.  At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 6 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Amendment coming into force on 1st April 2007

9.  At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 7 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D Elis-Thomas

Presiding Officer National Assembly for Wales

9th May 2006

Jeff Rooker

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

10th May 2006

Regulations 3 to 9

SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

PART 1 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st JUNE 2006

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2005/58/EC(4);	bifenazate and milbemectin

PART 2 ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st SEPTEMBER 2006

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2005/53/EC(5);	chlorothalonil, chlorotoluron, cypermethrin, daminozide and thiophanate-methyl
Commission Directive 2005/54/EC(6);	tribenuron

PART 3 ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st OCTOBER 2006

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/10/EC(7);	forchlorfenuron and indoxacarb
Commission Directive 2006/19/EC(8);	1-methylcyclopropene

PART 4 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st NOVEMBER 2006

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2005/57/EC(9);	MCPA and MCPB

PART 5 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st JANUARY 2007

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2005/72/EC(10);	chlorpyrifos, chlorpyrifos-methyl, mancozeb, maneb and metiram

PART 6 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st FEBRUARY 2007

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/16/EC(11);	oxamyl

PART 7 ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st APRIL 2007

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/5/EC(12);	warfarin
Commission Directive 2006/6/EC(13);	tolylfluanid

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1435) (“the Principal Regulations”) which implement in England and Wales Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ No. L230, 19.8.91, p.1, as read with corrigenda published in OJ No. L170, 25.6.92, p.40).

Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations, which sets out the instruments that amend that Directive, is amended by the insertion of the entries set out in the various Parts of the Schedule to these Regulations, which list additional Directives that add one or more further active substances to Annex I of the Council Directive. In consequence the list of active substances which can be used in products capable of being approved under regulations 5 and 6 of the 2005 Regulations for placing on the market and use is extended accordingly.

The amendments relating to the entries set out in Parts 1 to 7 of the Schedule come into force as follows:

Part 1: 1st June 2006

Part 2: 1st September 2006

Part 3: 1st October 2006

Part 4: 1st November 2006

Part 5: 1st January 2007

Part 6: 1st February 2007

Part 7: 1st April 2007

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared in respect of these Regulations as they have no impact on the costs of business.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811 and, in the case of the National Assembly for Wales, S.I. 2005/2766.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 2005/1435, amended by S.I. 2005/3197.

(4)

OJ No. L246, 22.9.2005, p. 17.

(5)

OJ No. L241, 17.9.2005, p. 51.

(6)

OJ No. L244, 20.9.2005, p. 21.

(7)

OJ No. L25, 28.1.2006, p. 24.

(8)

OJ No. L 44 15.2.2006, p. 15.

(9)

OJ No. L246, 22.9.2005, p. 14.

(10)

OJ No. L279, 22.10.2005, p. 63.

(11)

OJ No. L36, 8.2.2006, p. 37.

(12)

OJ No. L12, 18.1.2006, p. 17.

(13)

OJ No. L12, 18.1.2006, p. 21.