2006 No. 2933

PESTICIDES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(3)

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales are designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community.

Acting jointly (the National Assembly for Wales acting in relation to Wales only), in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section, they make the following Regulations:

Citation, interpretation and commencement1

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006.

2

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Plant Protection Products Regulations 20053.

3

These Regulations come into force—

a

for the purposes of regulation 2(3), on 1st February 2007;

b

for all other purposes on 6th December 2006.

Amendment to the principal Regulations2

1

The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

2

At the end of Schedule 1 (instruments amending Council Directive 91/414), insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

3

At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D Elis-ThomasPresiding OfficerNational Assembly for Wales
Jeff RookerMinister of StateDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

SCHEDULEAMENDMENTS TO THE principal Regulations

Regulation 2

PART 1ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 6th December 2006

Instruments

Active substances added to Annex I

Commission Directive 2006/45/EC4;

None

PART 2ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st FEBRUARY 2007

Instruments

Active substances added to Annex I

Commission Directive 2006/39/EC5;

clodinafop, pirimicarb, rimsulfuron, tolclofos-methyl and triticonazole

Commission Directive 2006/41/EC6

clothianidin and pethoxamid

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1435) (“the principal Regulations”) which implement in England and Wales Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJNo. L230, 19.8.91, p.1, as read with corrigenda published in OJNo. L170, 25.6.92, p.40).

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, which sets out the instruments that amend that Directive, is amended by the insertion of the entries set out in the two Parts of the Schedule to these Regulations.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared in respect of these Regulations as they have no impact on the costs of business.