The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2003

Made: 10th December 2003

Laid before Parliament: 10th December 2003

Coming into force: 31st December 2003

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Title, extent and commencement

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Interpretation

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Prohibitions

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Applications concerning active substances

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Standard approvals

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General requirements for granting standard approvals

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Provisional approvals

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Emergency approvals

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Approvals for research and development

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Extensions of approved use

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Mutual recognition of approvals

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Provisional restrictions and prohibitions

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Applications, reviews, revocations and modifications

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Notification of information on potentially dangerous effects

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Data protection

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Duplication of experiments

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Confidentiality

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Packaging

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Labelling

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Seizure and disposal of plant protection products

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General offences

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Penalties

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General defence of due diligence

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Enforcement

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Service of documents

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Transitional provisions

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Disapplication

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — INSTRUMENTS AMENDING COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 91/414/EEC

Instruments	Active substances added to Annex I
Commission Directive 93/71/EEC;	None
Commission Directive 94/37/EC;	None
Commission Directive 94/79/EC;	None
Commission Directive 95/35/EC;	None
Commission Directive 95/36/EC;	None
Commission Directive 96/12/EC;	None
Commission Directive 96/46/EC;	None
Commission Directive 96/68/EC;	None
Council Directive 97/57/EC;	None
Commission Directive 2000/80/EC;	lambda-cyhalothrin, imazalil, azoxystrobin, kresoxim-methyl, spiroxamine, azimsulfuron, fluroxypyr, metsulfuron-methyl, triasulfuron, esfenvalerate, prohexadione-calcium and bentazone
Commission Directive 2001/21/EC;	amitrole, diquat, pyridate and thiabendazole
Commission Directive 2001/28/EC;	fenhexamid
Commission Directive 2001/36/EC;	None
Commission Directive 2001/47/EC;	Paecilomyces fumosoroseus
Commission Directive 2001/49/EC;	flupyrsulfuron-methyl
Commission Directive 2001/87/EC;	acibenzolar-s-methyl, cyclanilide, ferric phosphate, pymetrozine and pyraflufen-ethyl
Commission Directive 2001/99/EC;	glyphosate and thifensulfuron-methyl
Commission Directive 2001/103/EC;	2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
Commission Directive 2002/18/EC;	isoproturon
Commission Directive 2002/37/EC;	ethofumesate
Commission Directive 2002/48/EC;	iprovalicarb, prosulfuron and sulfosulfuron
Commission Directive 2002/64/EC;	cinidon-ethyl, cyhalofop-butyl, famoxadone, florasulam, metalaxyl-M and picolinafen
Commission Directive 2002/81/EC;	flumioxazine
Commission Directive 2003/5/EC;	deltamethrin
Commission Directive 2003/23/EC;	imazamox, oxasulfuron, ethoxysulfuron, foramsulfuron, oxadiargyl, cyazofamid
Commission Directive 2003/68/EC;	trifloxstrobin, carfentrazone-ethyl,mesotrione, fenamidone, isoxaflutole
Commission Directive 2003/82/EC;	None
Commission Directive 2003/31/EC;	2,4-DB, maleic hydrazide, cyfluthrin, beta-cyfluthrin, iprodione, linuron, pendimethalin
Commission Directive 2003/79/EC;	coniothyrium minitans
Commission Directive 2003/84/EC;	flurtamone, flufenacet, iodosulfuron, dimethenamid-p, picoxystrobin, fosthiazate, silthiofam
Commission Directive 2003/39/EC;	propyzamide, propineb
Commission Directive 2003/70/EC;	mecoprop, mecoprop-P, propiconazole
Commission Directive 2003/119/EC;	mesosulfuron, propoxycarbazone and zoxamide
Commission Directive 2004/30/EC;	benzoic acid, flazasulfuron and pyraclostrobin
Commission Directive 2003/81/EC;	molinate, thiram, ziram
As from 1st October 2004 amended by:
Commission Directive 2004/60/EC;	quinoxyfen
Commission Directive 2004/62/EC;	mepanipyrim
Commission Directive 2004/71/EC;	Pseudomonas chlororaphis
As from 1st November 2004 amended by:
Commission Directive 2003/112/EC;	Paraquat
As from 1st February 2005 amended by:
Commission Directive 2004/20/EC;	Chlorpropham
As from 1st March 2005 amended by:
Commission Directive 2004/58/EC.	alpha-cypermethrin, benalaxyl, bromoxynil, desmedipham, ioxynil and phenmedipham

SCHEDULE 2 — NON-CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

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SCHEDULE 3 — LABELLING

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SCHEDULE 4 — TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Application of these Regulations and of the 1986 Regulations to relevant plant protection products

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Effect of Annex I decisions on the placing on the market and use of relevant plant protection products which are not approved pesticides

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Effect of a refusal to include an active substance in Annex I on relevant plant protection products which are approved pesticides

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Effect of a decision to include active substances in Annex I on relevant plant protection products which are approved pesticides

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Revocation of pesticide approval

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Effect of revocation on the placing on the market and use of the product

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Notifications

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Interpretation

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SCHEDULE 5 — REVOCATIONS

The following Regulations are hereby revoked:

The Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995	S.I. 1995/887
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 1997	S.I. 1997/7
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment)(No.2) Regulations 1997	S.I. 1997/2499
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment)(No.3) Regulations 2002	S.I. 2002/2874
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2003	S.I. 2003/1787

Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D. Elis-Thomas — Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales — 2003-12-10

Alun Michael — Minister of State, — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2003-12-04

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811 and, in the case of the National Assembly for Wales, S.I. 1999/2788.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: 1985 c. 48; section 19 was amended by the Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement) Act 1989 (c. 27), section 2, and by the Pesticides Act 1998 (c. 26), section 2.

[^f00004]: OJ No. L230 19.8.91, p.1.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1986/1510, amended by S.I. 1997/188, 2001/880.

[^f00006]: OJ No. L106, 17.4.2001, p.1.

[^f00007]: OJ No. L33 8.2.79, p.36.

[^f00008]: Last amended by Council Regulation 807/2003/EC (OJ No. L122, 16.5.2003, p.36).

[^f00009]: S.I. 1992/3240, amended by 1998/1447.

[^f00010]: 1911 c. 27 (1 & 2 Geo 5).

[^f00011]: 1978 c. 30.

[^f00012]: 1972 c. 70.

[^f00013]: S.I. 1971/729.

[^f00014]: OJ No. L221, 31.8.93, p.27, (as read with corrigenda published in OJ No. L170, 25.6.92, p.40).

[^f00015]: OJ No. L194, 29.7.94, p.65.

[^f00016]: OJ No. L354, 31.12.94, p.16, (as read with corrigenda published in OJ No. L280, 23.11.95, p.58).

[^f00017]: OJ No. L172, 22.7.95, p.6.

[^f00018]: OJ No. L172, 22.7.95, p.8.

[^f00019]: OJ No. L65, 15.3.96, p.20.

[^f00020]: OJ No. L214, 23.8.96, p.18.

[^f00021]: OJ No. L277, 30.10.96, p.25.

[^f00022]: OJ No. L265, 27.9.97, p.87.

[^f00023]: OJ No. L309, 9.12.2000, p.14.

[^f00024]: OJ No. L69, 10.3.2001, p.17.

[^f00025]: OJ No. L113, 24.4.2001, p.5.

[^f00026]: OJ No. L164, 20.6.2001, p.1.

[^f00027]: OJ No. L175, 28.6.2001, p.21.

[^f00028]: OJ No. L176, 29.6.2001, p.61.

[^f00029]: OJ No. L276, 19.10.2001, p.17.

[^f00030]: OJ No. L304, 21.11.2001, p.14.

[^f00031]: OJ No. L313, 30.11.2001, p.37.

[^f00032]: OJ No. L55, 26.2.2002, p.29.

[^f00033]: OJ No. L117, 4.5.2002, p.10.

[^f00034]: OJ No. L148, 6.6.2002, p.19.

[^f00035]: OJ No. L189, 18.7.2002, p.27.

[^f00036]: OJ No. L276, 12.10.2002, p.28.

[^f00037]: OJ No. L8, 14.1.2003, p.7.

[^f00038]: OJ No. L81, 28.3.2003, p.39.

[^f00039]: OJ No. L177, 16.7.2003, p.12.

[^f00040]: OJ No. L228, 12.9.2003, p.11.

[^f00041]: OJ No. L101, 23.4.2003, p.3.

[^f00042]: OJ No. L205, 14.8.2003, p.16.

[^f00043]: OJ No. L247, 30.9.2003, p.20.

[^f00044]: OJ No. L124, 20.5.2003, p.30.

[^f00045]: OJ No. L184, 23.7.2003, p.9.

[^f00046]: OJ No. L224, 6.9.2003, p.29.

[^f00047]: OJ No. P196, 16.8.67, p.1 (OJ/SE 1967 p.234).

[^f00048]: Last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 806/2003 (OJ No. L122, 16.5.2003, p.1).

[^f00049]: OJ No. L200, 30.7.1999, p.1.

[^f00050]: Amended by Commission Directive 2001/60/EC (OJ No. L226, 22.8.2001, p.5).

[^f00051]: By J Rigaudy and S P Klesney, published by Pergamon (ISBN 0-08022-3699).

[^f00052]: By R Panico, W H Powell and J-C Richer, published by Blackwell Science (ISBN 0-63203-4882). Corrections published in Pure Appl.Chem., vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 1327-1330, 1999.

Effect of a decision to include active substances in Annex I on relevant plant protection products which are approved pesticides

The following Regulations are hereby revoked:

The Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995	S.I. 1995/887
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 1997	S.I. 1997/7
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment)(No.2) Regulations 1997	S.I. 1997/2499
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment)(No.3) Regulations 2002	S.I. 2002/2874
The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2003	S.I. 2003/1787

Editorial notes

[^key-4b1c558599a6cb08bdacc8d43325129e]: Regulations revoked (1.7.2005) by The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1435), regs. 1, 28 (with Sch. 4)

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