The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2001

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2001.

(2) Other than as provided for in paragraph (3) below, these Regulations shall come into force on 1st January 2002.

(3) For the purposes of regulation 2(4)(b) and (c) below, these Regulations shall come into force on 1st March 2002.

Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Regulations 2000

2.—(1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Regulations 2000(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of “the Residues Directives” there is substituted the definition in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(3) In Part 2 of Schedule 2 maximum residue levels are substituted as follows–

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

(b) for mg/kg of spiroxamine on meat, fat & preparations of meat delete “0.2⁽³⁷⁾” and insert “0.2^(37)(39)”; and

(c) for mg/kg of spiroxamine on milk & dairy produce delete “0.02^(37)(39)” and insert “0.02⁽³⁷⁾”.

(4) In Part 2 of Schedule 2–

(a) there are inserted, in the appropriate places to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, the maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides azimsulfuron and prohexadione and its salts expressed as prohexadione, specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified;

(b) there are inserted, in the appropriate places to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, the maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticide fluroxypyr and its esters expressed as fluroxypyr, specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified; and

(c) for the existing maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides azoxystrobin and kresoxim methyl there are substituted the maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides, specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified.

Consequential Amendment

3.  Regulation 2(2) of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001(2) is omitted.

ROSS FINNIE

A member of the Scottish Executive

Edinburgh

21st November 2001