2 Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999
1 The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
S.I.1999/3483, amended by S.I.2001/1113, S.I.2001/2420, S.I.2001/3834 and S.I.2002/1767.
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, Council Directive 86/363/EEC and Council Directive 90/642/EEC, 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. 2) Regulations 2002.”

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OJNo. L221, 7.8.86, p. 37. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2002/76/EC (OJNo. L240, 7.9.2002, p. 45).
OJNo. L221, 7.8.86, p. 43. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2002/71/EC (OJNo. L275, 22.8.2002, p. 21).
OJNo. L350, 14.12.90, p. 71. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2002/76/EC.
3 For paragraph (b) of regulation 6 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(b) the procedure to be followed for sampling for the determination of pesticide residues shall—
(i) be that set out in the Annex to Commission Directive 2002/63/EC for the residues covered by Part 2 of Schedule 2; and
OJNo. L187, 16.7.2002, p. 30.
(ii) so far as is practicable, be that set out in the Codex Alimentarius Commission ‘Recommended Method of Sampling for the Determination of Pesticide Residues for compliance with MRLs; CAC/GL 33-1999’ for the residues not covered by Part 2 of Schedule 2;”

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4 In Schedule 1 there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in columns 1 and 2 the following entries (the entries for Dimethoate and Quintozene being substituted for the existing ones):
Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Bentazone	Bentazone (sum of bentazone and conjugates 6-OH-and 8-OH-bentazone expressed as bentazone)
Dimethoate	Dimethoate (sum of dimethoate and omethoate expressed as dimethoate)
Formothion	Formothion
Lindane	Lindane (Hexachloro-cylohexane γ)
Metsulfuron methyl	Metsulfuron methyl
Oxydemeton methyl	Oxydemeton methyl (sum of oxydemeton methyl and demeton-S-methylsulfone expressed as oxydemeton methyl)
Pyridate	Pyridate (sum of pyridate, its hydrolysis product CL 9673 (6-chloro-4-hydroxy-3-phenylpyridazin) and hydrolysable conjugates of CL 9673 expressed as pyridate)
Quintozene	Quintozene (sum of quintozene, and pentachloroaniline expressed as quintozene
5 In Part I of Schedule 2 the following pesticide columns together with any residue level inserted under the respective columns shall be deleted—
(a) Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH g) and Quintozene as at 1st December 2002;
(b) Dimethoate as at 1st January 2003;
(c) Parathion as at 1st May 2003.
6 For Part 2 of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations.