Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

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) 2004 and shall come into operation on 16th June 2004.

(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) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004.”.

(3) In Schedule 1, in column 2, for the residue for Metalaxyl-M there shall be substituted “metalaxyl-M”.

(4) In Part II of Schedule 2 –

(a) in the column headed Prochloraz, for the entry for food group 3, Pulses, in relation to the product Peas for “3” there shall be substituted “0.3”;

(b) for the columns relating to the pesticides Abamectin, 2,4-D and Diquat there shall be substituted the columns of maximum permitted levels for residue of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(5) On 1st December 2004 –

(a) in Schedule 1, in column 2, for the residue of Parathion-methyl there shall be substituted “parathion-methyl (sum of parathion-methyl and para-oxon-methyl expressed as Parathion-methyl)”;

(b) in Part I of Schedule 2, the column for the pesticide Parathion-methyl shall be deleted;

(c) in Part II of Schedule 2 –

(i) there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering, from left to right the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Parathion-methyl as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(ii) for the column relating to the pesticide Acephate there shall be substituted the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Acephate as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 30th April 2004.

L.S.

D. Small

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development