IMPLEMENTS
Commission Directive 2006/53/EC of 7 June 2006 amending Council Directive 90/642/EEC as regards the maximum residue levels of fenbutatin-oxide, fenhexamid, cyazofamid, linuron, triadimephon/triadimenol, pymetrozine, and pyraclostrobin (1)
Commission Directive 2006/59/EC of 28 June 2006 amending Annexes to Council Directives 76/895/EEC, 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards maximum residue levels for carbaryl, deltamethrin, endosulfan, fenithrothion, methidathion and oxamyl (1)
Commission Directive 2006/60/CE of 7 July 2006 amending Annexes to Council Directive 90/642/EEC as regards the maximum residue levels of trifloxystrobin, thiabendazole, abamectin, benomyl, carbendazim, thiophanate-methyl, myclobutanyl, glyphosate, trimethylsulfonium, fenpropimorph and chlormequat (1)
Commission Directive 2006/61/EC of 7 July 2006 amending the Annexes to Council Directives 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards maximum residue levels for atrazine, azinphos-ethyl, cyfluthrin, ethephon, fenthion, methamidophos, methomyl, paraquat and triazophos (1)

COMMENTED by
Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (Note)

Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2006 No. 501

AGRICULTURE

PESTICIDES

Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made 5th December 2006

Coming into operation- 18th January 2007

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a Department 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, in exercise of the powers conferred on it makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. -(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 18th January 2007.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[3] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

2. -(1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006[4] shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of the Residues Directives substitute the following definition:

"the Residues Directives" means Directive 76/895[5], Directive 86/362[6], Directive 86/363[7] and Directive 90/642[8], in each case as amended at the date of the making of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006.".

(3) In Schedule 1 the following entry shall be substituted for the corresponding existing entry;Column 1

Pesticides

Column 2

Residues

Deltamethrin(1) for products of plant origin other than cereals and for foodstuffs of animal origin: deltamethrin (cis-deltamethrin)

(2) for cereals: deltamethrin

(4) In Part I of Schedule 2 the columns relating to Carbaryl and Fenitrothion shall be deleted.

(5) In Part II of Schedule 2 substitute the following maximum residue levels-

(a) for mg/kg of Benomyl/Carbendazim on Papaya delete "0.1" and insert "0.2";

(b) for mg/kg of Chlormequat on Pears delete "0.3" and insert "0.2";

(c) for mg/kg of Thiophanate-methyl on Papaya delete "0.1 and insert "1".

(6) In Part II of Schedule 2-

(a) insert, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides Carbaryl and Fenitrothion as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b) for the columns relating to the pesticides Cyazofamid, Deltamethrin, Endosulfan Fenbutatin-oxide, Fenhexamid, Linuron, Methidathion, Pymetrozine and Triadimefon and Triadimenol substitute the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(7) The following footnote shall be added at the end of Part II to Schedule 2-

47. Poultry and poultry products.".

(8) In Schedule 3, in paragraph 2(v)(a) (Lettuce and similar), in column 2, beneath "Scarole" insert "Ruccola" and beneath that insert "Leaves and stems of brassica".

(9) On the 21st January 2007:

(a) in Schedule 1 the following entries for-

(i) Cyfluthrin, shall be substituted for the corresponding existing entry; and

(ii) Fenthion shall be inserted at the appropriate place in Columns 1 and 2;Column 1

Pesticides

Column 2

Residues

Cyfluthrincyfluthrin including other mixtures of constituent isomers (sum of isomers)Fenthionfenthion and its oxygen analogue, their sulfoxides and sulfones express as parent

(b) in Part II of Schedule 2 maximum residue levels shall be substituted as follows-

(i) for mg/kg of Abamectin on Blackberries and Ra...

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