Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2000 No. 24

PESTICIDES

Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Made

24th February 2000

Coming into operation

30th March 2000

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 all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, and shall come into operation on 30th March 2000.

(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 of the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

2.  Regulation 2(1) of the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(4) shall be amended by substituting for the definition of “the Directive” the following definition—

• ““the Directive” means Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market(5), as amended by—

  (a)

  Commission Directive 93/71/EEC(6);

  (b)

  Commission Directive 94/37/EC(7);

  (c)

  Commission Directive 94/79/EC(8);

  (d)

  Commission Directive 95/35/EC(9);

  (e)

  Commission Directive 95/36/EC(10);

  (f)

  Commission Directive 96/12/EC(11);

  (g)

  Commission Directive 96/46/EC(12);

  (h)

  Commission Directive 96/68/EC(13);

  (i)

  Council Directive 97/57/EC(14);

  (j)

  Commission Directive 97/73/EC(15);

  (k)

  Commission Directive 98/47/EC(16);

  (l)

  Commission Directive 1999/1/EC(17);

  (m)

  Commission Directive 1999/73/EC(18);

  (n)

  Commission Directive 1999/80/EC(19);”.

Revocation

3.  The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(20) are hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 24th February 2000.

L.S.

Liam McKibben

Senior Officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 371), as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 471, S.R. 1997 No. 507 and S.R. 1999 No. 282 (“the principal Regulations”) which implement in Northern Ireland Council Directive 91/414/EEC (O.J. No. L230, 19.8.91, p. 1 to be read with the Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L170, 25.6.92, p. 40) concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (“the Directive”), as amended.

The Regulations amend the definition of the Directive provided in the principal Regulations in consequence of Commission Directive 1999/73/EC (O.J. No. L206, 5.8.99, p. 16) and Commission Directive 1999/80/EC (O.J. No. L210, 10.8.99, p. 14) which include two active substances (respectively Spiroxamine and Azimsulfuron) into Annex I to the Directive.

The Regulations revoke the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 282) which made amendments that are consolidated in the amendments made by the present Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811

(2)

1972 c. 68

(3)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

(4)

S.R. 1995 No. 371, amended by S.R. 1997 Nos. 471 and 507 and S.R. 1999 No. 282 (S.R. 1999 No. 282 is revoked by the present Regulations)

(5)

O.J. No. L230, 19.8.91, p. l (to be read with Corrigenda published in O.J. No.L170, 25.6.92, p. 40)

(6)

O.J. No. L221, 31.8.93, p. 27 (to be read with Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L4, 6.1.96, p.16)

(7)

O.J. No. L194, 29.7.94, p. 65

(8)

O.J. No. L354, 31.12.94, p. 16 (to be read with Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L280, 23.11.95, p. 58

(9)

O.J. No. L172, 22.7.95, p. 6

(10)

O.J. No. L172, 22.7.95, p. 8

(11)

O.J. No. L65, 15.3.96, p. 20

(12)

O.J. No. L214, 23.8.96, p. 18

(13)

O.J. No. L277, 30.10.96, p. 25

(14)

O.J. No. L265, 27.9.97, p. 87

(15)

O.J. No. L353, 24.12.97, p. 26

(16)

O.J. No. L191, 7.7.98, p. 50

(17)

O.J. No. L21, 28.1.99, p. 21

(18)

O.J. No. L206, 5.8.99, p. 16

(19)

O.J. No. L210, 10.8.99, p. 14

(20)

S.R. 1999 No. 282