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Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (Note)

Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2004 No. 367

AGRICULTURE

PESTICIDES

Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made 26th August 2004

Coming into operation 18th October 2004

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 by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby 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) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 18th October 2004.

(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) 2002

2. - (1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002[4] 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[5], Council Directive 86/363/EEC[6] and Council Directive 90/642/EEC[7], in each case amended as at the date of the making of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004.".

(3) In Schedule 1:

(a) the entry for Omethoate shall be deleted;

(b) there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in Columns 1 and 2 the following entries:Column 1Column 2PesticideResiduesCyazofamidcyazofamid2,4-DB2,4-DBEthoxysulfuronethoxysulfuronFenamiphosfenamiphos (sum of fenamiphos and its sulphoxide and sulphone expressed as fenamiphos)ForamsulfuronforamsulfuronImazamoximazamoxLinuronlinuronOxadiargyloxadiargylOxasulfuronoxasulfuronPendimethalinpendimethalin

and the Column 1 and 2 entries for 2,4-D shall be repositioned immediately above those for 2,4-DB.

(4) In Part II of Schedule 2 the maximum residue levels shall be substituted as follows -

(a) for mg/kg of Aramite on papaya delete "0.05*" and insert "0.01*";

(b) for mg/kg of Benalaxyl on lettuce delete "0.05" and insert "0.5";

(c) for mg/kg of Diphenylamine on papaya delete "0.01*" and insert "0.05*".

(5) In Part II of Schedule 2:

(a) the column relating to the pesticide Omethoate shall be deleted;

(b) for the column relating to the pesticide Bromopropylate there shall be substituted the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Bromopropylate as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(c) there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Fenamiphos as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(6) On the 26th January 2005:

(a) in Schedule 1:

(i) the entry for Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) shall be deleted;

(ii) there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in Columns 1 and 2 the following entries:Column 1Column 2PesticideResidues1,2 Dichloroethane1,2 dichloroethaneEthylene oxideethylene oxide (sum of ethylene oxide and 2-chloro-ethanol expressed as ethylene oxide)HCH (He...

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