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

Title, commencement and extent

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2001; they extend to England and Wales only, and shall come into force on 1st January 2002.

Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

2.—(1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999(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) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2001.”.

(3) In Part 2 of Schedule 2 maximum residue levels shall be substituted as follows—

(a) for mg/kg of chlorothalonil on bananas delete “2” and insert “0.2”;

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

(c) for mg/kg of methamidophos on cottonseed delete “0.01*” and insert “0.1”.

(4) In Part 2 of Schedule 2, 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 azimsulfuron, azoxystrobin, fluroxpyr and its esters expressed as fluroxpyr (as from 1st March 2002), kresoxim methyl and prohexadione and its salts expressed as prohexadione, as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified, the columns relating to azoxystrobin and kresoxim methyl being substituted for the existing columns respectively relating to them as from 1st March 2002.

Whitty

Parliamentary Under-Secretary,

Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

3rd December 2001

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D. Elis Thomas

Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales

29th November 2001