Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

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) 2002 and shall come into operation on 11th March 2002.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) 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(2) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (7).

(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(3), Council Directive 86/363/EEC(4) and Council Directive 90/642/EEC(5), in each case amended as at the date of the making of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.”.

(3) In Schedule 1 there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in Columns 1 and 2 the following:

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Azimsulfuron	azimsulfuron
Azinphos-ethyl	azinphos-ethyl
Chlozolinate	chlozolinate
Dinoterb	dinoterb
DNOC	DNOC
Fluroxypyr	fluroxypyr and its esters expressed as fluroxypyr
Monolinuron	monolinuron
Prohexadione	prohexadione and its salts expressed as prohexadione
Propham	propham
Pyrazophos	pyrazophos
Spiroxamine	spiroxamine
Tecnazene	tecnazene

(4) On 1st July 2003, the entry for the pesticide Tecnazene in relation to lettuce shall be deleted from Part I of Schedule 2.

(5) In Part II of Schedule 2 there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides specified in the Schedule to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified and the columns relating to azoxystrobin and kresoxim methyl being substituted for the existing columns respectively relating to them as from 1st March 2002.

(6) In Part II of Schedule 2 maximum residue levels shall be substituted as follows—

(a) for mg/kg of iprodione on spring onion delete “5” and insert “3”;

(b) for mg/kg of methamidophos on cottonseed delete “0.01” and insert “0.1”.

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

“36.   The residues definition for this MRL is: spiroxamine carboxylic acid expressed as spiroxamine.

37.   Scarole includes broad-leaf endive.

38.   Liver and kidney.”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 1st February 2002.

L.S.

Liam McKibben

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development