The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Amendment of the principal Regulations

5.  For paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“Interpretation

8.   For the purposes of this Schedule—

“approved pesticide” means a pesticide which is the subject of a pesticide approval;

“pesticide approval” means approval of a pesticide given under regulation 5 of the 1986 Regulations;

“pesticide approval holder” means any person who holds a current pesticide approval;

“relevant active substance” means an active substance contained in a relevant plant protection product which is an approved pesticide;

“relevant plant protection product” means any plant protection product—

(a)

which is a pesticide, or substance, preparation or organism prepared or used for any of the purposes mentioned in regulation 3(1)(b) of the 1986 Regulations, and

(b)

at least one of whose active ingredients is an old active substance; and

“active ingredient”, “advertisement”, “organism”, “pesticide”, “preparation”, “sale”, “storage”, “substance”, “supply” and “use” have the same meanings as in the 1986 Regulations.”.