Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 19992

1

The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) Regulations 19993 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/EEC4, Council Directive 86/363/EEC5 and Council Directive 90/642/EEC6, 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.

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/EC7 for the residues covered by Part 2 of Schedule 2; and

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;

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.