The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 2933

PESTICIDES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006

Made

8th November 2006

Laid before Parliament

13th November 2006

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(3)

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales are 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, they make the following Regulations:

Citation, interpretation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006.

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

(3) These Regulations come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 2(3), on 1st February 2007;

(b) for all other purposes on 6th December 2006.

Amendment to the principal Regulations

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) At the end of Schedule 1 (instruments amending Council Directive 91/414), insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(3) 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.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D Elis-Thomas

Presiding Officer

National Assembly for Wales

8th November 2006

Jeff Rooker

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

27th October 2006

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS TO THE principal Regulations

PART 1 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 6th December 2006

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/45/EC(4);	None

PART 2 ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st FEBRUARY 2007

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 2006/39/EC(5);	clodinafop, pirimicarb, rimsulfuron, tolclofos-methyl and triticonazole
Commission Directive 2006/41/EC(6)	clothianidin and pethoxamid

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 two Parts of the Schedule to these Regulations.

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 and S.I. 2006/1295.

(4)

OJ No. L130, 18.5.2006, p. 27.

(5)

OJ No. L104, 13.4.2006, p. 30.

(6)

OJ No. L187, 8.7.2006, p. 24.