The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

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) Regulations 2003.”.

(3) Regulation 4 (2A) shall be deleted.

(4) In Schedule 1 there shall be inserted at the appropriate places in columns 1 and 2 the following entries (with the entries for profenofos replacing those for profenophos):

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Abamectin	Abamectin (sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and delta-8, 9 isomer of avermectin B1a)
Azocyclotin and Cyhexatin	Azocyclotin and Cyhexatin (sum of azocyclotin and cyhexatin expressed as cyhexatin)
Bifenthrin	Bifenthrin
Bitertanol	Bitertanol
Bromopropylate	Bromopropylate
Clofentezine	Clofentezine (sum of all compounds containing the 2-chlorobenzoyl moiety expressed as clofentezine)
Cyromazine	Cyromazine
Fenpropimorph	(1) For cereals and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables—fenpropimorph (2) For products of animal origin—fenpropimorph carboxylic acid (BF 421-2) expressed as fenpropimorph
Flucythrinate	Flucythrinate (expressed as flucythrinate, sum of isomers)
Hexaconazole	Hexaconazole
Myclobutanil	(1) For cereals and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables—myclobutanil (2) For products of animal origin—Alpha–(3-hydroxybutyl)–alpha–(4-chlore- phenyl)–1H–1,2,4–triazole -1–propanenitrile (RH 9090) expressed as myclobutanil
Penconazole	Penconazole
Prochloraz	Prochloraz (sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol moiety expressed as prochloraz)
Profenofos	Profenofos
Resmethrin	Resmethrin, including other mixtures of constituent isomers (sum of isomers)
Thifensulfuron methyl	Thifensulfuron methyl
Triadimefon and Triadimenol	Triadimefon and Triadimenol (sum of triadimefon and triadimenol)
Triasulfuron	Triasulfuron
Tridemorph	Tridemorph
2,4-D	(1) For cereals and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables—2,4-D (sum of 2,4-D and its esters) expressed as 2,4-D (2) For products of animal origin—2,4-D

(5) In Part I of Schedule 2 the column relating to Bitertanol shall be deleted.

(6) For Part 2 of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1999/3483, amended by S.I. 2001/1113, S.I. 2001/2420, S.I. 2001/3834, S.I. 2002/1767 and S.I. 2002/2723.

(2)

O.J. No. L221, 7.8.86, p. 37. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2002/97/EC (O.J. No. L343, 18.12.2002, p. 23).

(3)

O.J. No. L221, 7.8.86, p. 43. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2002/97/EC.

(4)

O.J. No. L350, 14.12.90, p. 71. The last amending instrument is Commission Directive 2002/100/EC (O.J. No. L2, 7.1.2003, p. 33).