Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

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) 2003 and shall come into operation on 30th September 2003.

(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 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(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) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.”.

(3) In Schedule 1 there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in Columns 1 and 2 the following entries (the entries for Flucythrinate being substituted for the existing ones and the entries for Profenos replacing those for Profenophos):

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Abamectin	abamectin (sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and delta-8, 9 isomer of avermectin B1a)
Azocyclotin and Cyhexatin	azocyclotin and cyhexatin (sum of azocyclotin and cyhexatin expressed as cyhexatin)
Bifenthrin	bifenthrin
Clofentezine	clofentezine (sum of all compounds containing the 2-chlorobenzoyl moiety expressed as clofentezine)
Cyromazine	cyromazine
2,4-D	(1) For cereals, fruit and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables – 2,4-D (sum of 2,4-D and its esters) expressed as 2,4-D (2) For products of animal origin – 2,4-D
Fenpropimorph	(1) For cereals, fruit and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables – fenpropimorph (2) For products of animal origin – fenpropimorph carboxylic acid (BF 421-2) expressed as fenpropimorph
Flucythrinate	flucythrinate (expressed as flucythrinate, sum of isomers)
Hexaconazole	hexaconazole
Myclobutanil	(1) For cereals, fruit and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables- myclobutanil (2) For products of animal origin – Alpha-(3-hydroxybutyl) – alpha – (4-chlore- phenyl) – 1H – 1,2,4 – triazole -1 - propanenitrile (RH 9090) expressed as myclobutanil
Penconazole	penconazole
Prochloraz	prochloraz (sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol moiety expressed as prochloraz)
Profenofos	profenofos
Resmethrin	resmethrin, including other mixtures of constituent isomers (sum of isomers)
Thifensulfuron methyl	thifensulfuron methyl
Triadimefon and Triadimenol	triadimefon and triadimenol (sum of triadimefon and triadimenol)
Triasulfuron	triasulfuron
Tridemorph	tridemorph

(4) In Part I of Schedule 2 the column relating to Bitertanol shall be deleted.

(5) For Part II of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 13th August 2003.

L.S.

D. Small

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development