The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

Title, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force—

(a) as respects all regulations except for regulations 4(c), 7 and 8 on 1st July 1996;

(b) as respects regulations 4(c) and 7 on 22nd August 1996; and

(c) as respects regulation 8 on 31st October 1996.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations 1994(1).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 9 of these Regulations.

3.  The pesticides stated in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be inserted in column 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations in their appropriate alphabetically ordered positions and, in relation to each such pesticide, there shall be entered in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations the residues stated in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations opposite that pesticide.

4.  In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations—

(a) the maximum level of 5 milligrammes of Thiabendazole per kilogramme of product specified for the product Ware potatoes,

(b) the maximum level of 0.5 milligrammes of Pirimiphos-methyl per kilogramme of product specified for the products Grapefruits, Lemons, Limes, Mandarins (including clementines and similar hybrids), Oranges, Pomelos and Other Citrus Fruits, and

(c) the maximum level of 5 milligrammes of Pirimiphos-methyl per kilogramme of product specified for the products Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Triticale, Maize, Rice and Other Cereals,

shall be deleted.

5.  In Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, for the maximum level of 0.02* milligrammes of Lambda-cyhalothrin per kilogramme of product specified for the product Peas (without pods) there shall be substituted the maximum level of 0.2 milligrammes of Lambda-cyhalothrin per kilogramme of product.

6.  In Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, references to each pesticide stated at the head of a column in Schedule 2 to these Regulations together with the figures stated below the statement of that pesticide so that those figures will appear opposite such groups of products or such individual products in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations as they appear opposite those products in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

7.  In Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, references to each pesticide stated at the head of a column in Schedule 3 to these Regulations together with the figures stated below the statement of that pesticide so that those figures will appear opposite such groups of products or such individual products in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations as they appear opposite those products in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

8.  The maximum levels of pesticides per kilogramme of the groups of products or individual products stated in Schedule 4 to these Regulations shall be inserted at the blank entries corresponding to those figures in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations.

9.  In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations, after item 9 there shall be inserted, in the appropriate columns, the particulars which are specified in Schedule 5 to these Regulations.

Angela Browning

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

4th June 1996

Lindsay

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

23rd May 1996