The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Citation, interpretation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 2005(1).

(3) These Regulations shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 4, on 21st January 2008; and

(b) for all other purposes on 11th May 2007.

Amendments to the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.

Amendments coming into force on 11th May 2007

3.—(1) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “the Residues Directives” substitute the following definition—

““the Residues Directives” means Directive 76/895, Directive 86/362, Directive 86/363 and Directive 90/642”(2).

(2) In Schedule 1 (pesticide residues), in the appropriate place in the alphabetical sequence, insert the entry for the pesticide Captan set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(3) In Schedule 2 (maximum residue levels)—

(i) in the appropriate place in the alphabetical sequence, insert the entries in the column relating to the pesticide Captan set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations;

(ii) for the entries in the columns relating to the pesticides Ethion, Folpet and Dichlorvos, substitute the entries in the columns relating to those pesticides set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations;

(iii) in the column relating to the pesticide Azinphos-ethyl, for the entry for the food group 1(vi) Pomegranates, substitute “0.02*”.

(iv) at the end, insert as footnote 48 the footnote numbered (48) set out at the end of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Amendments coming into force on 21st January 2008

4.  Schedules 1 and 2 of the principal Regulations are amended as follows—

(a) in Schedule 1, in the appropriate places in the alphabetical sequence, insert the entries for the pesticides Desmedipham and Phenmedipham set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(b) in Schedule 2—

(i) in the appropriate place in the alphabetical sequence, insert the entries in the columns relating to the pesticides Desmedipham and Phenmedipham set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and

(ii) for the entries in the column relating to the pesticide Chlorfenvinphos, substitute the entries in the column relating to that pesticide set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Dafydd Elis-Thomas

Presiding Officer

National Assembly for Wales

20th March 2007

Jeff Rooker

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

21st March 2007