The Plant Protection Products (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Made: 17th March 1997

Laid before Parliament: 18th March 1997

Coming into force: 8th April 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 56(1) and (2) of the Finance Act 1973[^f00001] with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 8th April 1997.

Amendment of the Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations

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For the Schedule to the Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations 1995[^f00002] there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Angela Browning — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 14th March 1997

We consent to the making of these Regulations,

Roger Knapman — Patrick McLoughlin — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 17th March 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations replace the Schedule to the Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations 1995 (“the Fees Regulations”) which prescribe fees to be paid to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in connection with services provided and approvals granted by the Ministry in pursuance of the Community obligations of the United Kingdom (as regards Great Britain) under Council Directive 91/414/EEC, as amended, and supplement the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995, as amended, which implement the Directive in Great Britain.

These Regulations—

• (a) revise the amounts of the fees, to take account of inflation and other factors (the previous amounts are shown in parentheses and in italics in the right-hand column of the Schedule);

• (b) introduce a new fee structure for applications for approval for trial purposes;

• (c) add a further service in respect of which a fee is payable under the Fees Regulations, namely the preliminary examination and evaluation of an application for the official recognition of a test facility or organisation as required by points 2.2 and 2.3 of the introduction to Annex III to the Directive.

A compliance cost assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations. Copies of this assessment can be obtained from the Pesticides Safety Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Room 313, Mallard House, Kings Pool, 3 Peasholme Green, York YO1 2PX. A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1973 c. 51.

[^f00003]: The figures in italics are the amounts of fees under these Regulations before the coming into force of the Plant Protection Products (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997.

[^f00004]: References in this Schedule to the principal Regulations are to the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/887) as amended.

[^f00005]: Points 2.2 and 2.3 of the introduction to Annex III to the Directive were inserted by Annex II to Commission Directive 93/71/EEC (OJ No. L221, 31.8.93, p. 27). Point 2.2 requires that the tests and analyses required under points 6.2 to 6.7 of section 6 to Annex III (efficacy data) be conducted by official or officially recognised testing facilities or organisations satisfying the requirements set out in point 2.2. Point 2.3 sets out requirements regarding the provision of information to verify compliance and inspections.