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 |
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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.