Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

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(1) 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(2), Council Directive 86/363/EEC(3) and Council Directive 90/642/EEC(4), 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. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.”.

(3) In Schedule 1 there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in Columns 1 and 2 the following entries (with the entries for Amitrole replacing those in relation to which the term ‘Aminotriazole’ appears in Column 1):

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Acibenzolar-S-methyl	acibenzolar-S-methyl
Amitrole	amitrole
Chlorfenapyr	chlorfenapyr
Cinidon-ethyl	cinidon-ethyl (sum of cinidon-ethyl and its E-isomer)
Cyclanilide	cyclanilide
Cyhalofop butyl	cyhalofop butyl (sum of cyhalofop butyl and its free acids)
Diquat	diquat
Ethofumesate	ethofumesate (sum of ethofumesate and the metabolite 2,3-dihydro-3,3-dimethyl-2-oxo-benzofuran-5-yl methane sulphonate expressed as ethofumesate)
Famoxadone	famoxadone
Fenhexamid	fenhexamid
Fentin acetate	fentin acetate
Fentin hydroxide	fentin hydroxide
Florasulam	florasulam
Flumioxazine	flumioxazine
Iprovalicarb	iprovalicarb
Isoproturon	isoproturon
Metalaxyl-M	(1) For cereals – metalaxyl-M (2) For other products – metalxyl-M including other mixtures of constituent isomers (sum of isomers)
Picolinafen	picolinafen
Prosulfuron	prosulfuron
Pyraflufen-ethyl	pyraflufen-ethyl
Sulfosulfuron	sulfosulfuron

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

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

(a) for mg/kg of Chlormequat on pears delete “0.5” and insert “0.3”;

(b) for mg/kg of Dimethoate on tea (dried leaves and stalks, fermented or otherwise, Camillia sinensis) delete “0.2”;

(c) for mg/kg of Kresoxim-methyl on strawberries (other than wild) delete “0.2” and insert “1”;

(d) for mg/kg of Maneb Mancozeb Metiram Propineb and Zineb on radishes delete “0.2” and insert “2”, and on spring onions delete “0.05*” and insert “1”.

(6) In Part II of Schedule 2 –

(a) 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 Acibenzolar-S-methyl, Chlorfenapyr, Cinidon-ethyl, Cyclanilide, Cyhalofop butyl, Diquat, Ethofumesate, Famoxadone, Fenhexamid, Fentin acetate, Fentin hydroxide, Florasulam, Flumioxazine, Iprovalicarb, Isoproturon, Metalaxyl-M, Picolinafen, Prosulfuron, Pyraflufen-ethyl and Sulfosulfuron as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b) for the columns relating to the pesticides Aminotriazole (Amitrole), Azoxystrobin, Clofentezine, Hexaconazole, Lambda-cyhalothrin, Myclobutanil and Prochloraz, there shall be substituted the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations (with the heading ‘Aminotriazole (Amitrole)’ being replaced by the heading ‘Amitrole’); and

(c) the column the heading of which is so replaced shall be moved to preserve the alphabetical ordering.

(1)

S.R. 2002 No. 20 as amended by S.R. 2002 No. 27, S.R. 2002 No. 250, S.R. 2003 No. 123 and S.R. 2003 No. 379

(2)

O.J. No. L221, 7.8.86, p. 37. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2003/62/EC (O.J. No. L154, 21.6.2003, p. 70)

(3)

O.J. No. L221, 7.8.86, p. 43. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2003/60/EC (O.J. No. L155, 24.6.2003, p. 15)

(4)

O.J. No. L350, 14.12.90, p. 71. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2003/69/EC (O.J. No. L175, 15.7.2003, p. 37)