The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2004

Title, extent and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2004, extend to England and Wales and come into force on 11th June 2004.

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. 2) Regulations 2004.”.

(3) In Schedule 1, the following entries shall be inserted at the appropriate places in columns 1 and 2 to preserve the alphabetical ordering in column 1:

Column 1	Column 2
Pesticide	Residues
Cyazofamid	Cyazofamid
2,4-DB	2,4-DB
Ethoxysulfuron	Ethoxysulfuron
Fenamiphos	Fenamiphos (sum of fenamiphos and its sulphoxide and sulphone expressed as fenamiphos)
Foramsulfuron	Foramsulfuron
Imazamox	Imazamox
Linuron	Linuron
Oxadiargyl	Oxadiargyl
Oxasulfuron	Oxasulfuron
Pendimethalin	Pendimethalin

• and the column 1 and 2 entries for 2,4-D shall be repositioned immediately above those for 2,4-DB.

(4) In Part 2 of Schedule 2—

(a) in the column headed Benalaxyl, for the entry for food group 2(v) Leaf vegetables and fresh herbs, Lettuce there shall be substituted “0.5”;

(b) on 1st August 2004, there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering, the column of maximum permitted levels for residue of the pesticide Fenamiphos as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(c) on 4th June 2005, there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering, the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides Cyazofamid, 2,4-DB, Ethoxysulfuron, Foramsulfuron, Imazamox, Linuron, Oxadiargyl, Oxasulfuron and Pendimethalin as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D. Elis-Thomas

Presiding Officer National Assembly for Wales

18th May 2004

Alun Michael

Minister of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

18th May 2004