Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (EEC Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made: 19th May 1997

Coming into operation: 30th June 1997

The Department of Agriculture, being a Department designated[^f00001] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[^f00002] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (EEC Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 30th June 1997.

Interpretation

2

• (1) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (EEC Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995[^f00003].

• (2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[^f00004] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3

The pesticides specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall be inserted in column 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations in their appropriate alphabetically ordered positions and, in relation to each such pesticide, there shall be entered in column 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations the residues specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations opposite that pesticide.

4

In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations there shall be inserted, in the appropriate place to preserve the alphabetical ordering from left to right, references to each pesticide stated at the head of a column in Schedule 2 to these Regulations together with the figures specified in the column below the reference to that pesticide so that those figures will appear opposite such groups of products or such individual products in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations as they appear opposite those products in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

5

The maximum levels of pesticides per kilogramme of the individual products stated opposite their names in Schedule 3 to these Regulations shall be substituted for the corresponding maximum levels specified in Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations.

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

PULSES

3

OILSEEDS

4

POTATOES

5

TEA

6

HOPS (dried)

7

CEREALS

8

PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN

9

SCHEDULE 3

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on

L. G. McKibben — Assistant Secretary — 19th May 1997.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations, are made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and further amend the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (EEC Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) (S.R. 1995 No. 33, amended by S.R. 1995 No. 461 and S.R. 1996 No. 527).

The Regulations specify maximum levels of pesticides residues which may be left in crops, food and feeding stuffs in implementation of Council Directives 96/32/EC (O.J. No. L144, 18.6.96, p. 12) and 96/33/EC (O.J. No. L144, 18.6.96, p. 35) which set Community maximum residue levels for the pesticides concerned for the first time (regulations 3 and 4) or replace Community maximum residue levels which have been set previously (regulation 5).

Maximum levels in these Regulations which are followed by * will, when inserted into Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, connect with the explanation of that symbol given there.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 of that Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I. 15)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1995 No. 33 amended by S.R. 1995 No. 461 and S.R. 1996 No. 527

[^f00004]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

[^f00005]: See under the group “1(vi), Miscellaneous Fruit” in Schedule 2 to S.R. 1995 No. 461

[^f00006]: See under the group “2(iii)(b), Fruiting Vegetables” in Schedule 2 to S.R. 1995 No. 461

[^f00007]: See under the group “2(vii), Stem Vegetables” in Schedule 2 to S.R. 1995 No. 461

[^f00008]: See under the group “2(vii), Stem Vegetables” in Schedule 2 to S.R. 1995 No. 33

[^f00009]: See under the group “4. Oilseeds” in Schedule 2 to S.R. 1995 No. 33