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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2001 No. 435
AGRICULTURE
PESTICIDES
The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2001
Made
21st November 2001
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
26th November 2001
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement 1.
- (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2001.
(2) Other than as provided for in paragraph (3) below, these Regulations shall come into force on 1st January 2002.
(3) For the purposes of regulation 2(4)(b) and (c) below, these Regulations shall come into force on 1st March 2002.
Amendment to the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 2.
- (1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Regulations 2000[2] are amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of "the Residues Directives" there is substituted the definition in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(3) In Part 2 of Schedule 2 maximum residue levels are substituted as follows-
(a) for mg/kg of iprodione on spring onions delete "5" and insert "3";
(b) for mg/kg of spiroxamine on meat, fat & preparations of meat delete "0.2(37)" and insert "0.2(37)(39)"; and
(c) for mg/kg of spiroxamine on milk & dairy produce delete "0.02(37)(39)" and insert "0.02(37)".
(4) In Part 2 of Schedule 2-
(a) there are inserted, in the appropriate places to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, the maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides azimsulfuron and prohexadione and its salts expressed as prohexadione, specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified;
(b) there are inserted, in the appropriate places to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, the maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticide fluroxypyr and its esters expressed as fluroxypyr, specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified; and
(c) for the existing maximum permitted levels for residues of the pesticides azoxystrobin and kresoxim methyl there are substituted the maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides, specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations in relation to the products so specified.
Consequential Amendment 3.
Regulation 2(2) of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001[3] is omitted.
These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, further amend the provisions of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 ("the principal Regulations").
The Regulations update the definition of "Residue Directives" in the principal Regulations to incorporate-
(a) Commission Directive 2001/39/EC (O.J. No. L 148, 1.6.01, p.70);
(b) Commission Directive 2001/48/EC (O.J. No. L 180, 3.7.01, p.26); and
(c) Commission Directive 2001/57/EC (O.J. No. L 208, 1.8.01, p.36) (regulation 2 (2) and Schedule 1).
The maximum level for iprodione on spring onions is amended to reflect Commission Directive 1998/82/EC and the maximum level for spiroxamine on liver and kidney is amended to reflect Commission Directive 2000/81/EC (regulation 2(3)).
The Regulations specify maximum levels of pesticide residues which crops, food and feeding stuffs may contain in implementation of Commission Directives 2001/39/EC, 2001/48/EC, 2001/57/EC (regulation 2 (4) and Schedule 2).
The Regulations make a consequential amendment (regulation 3).