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S.I. No. 533/2002 -- European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002

S.I. No. 533/2002 -- European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002 2002 533

S.I. No. 533 of 2002

European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002

I, Joe Walsh, Minister for Agriculture and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 ( No. 27 of 1972 ), and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive 86/362/EEC of 24 July 1986¹ as amended by Council Directive 88/298/EEC of 16 May 1988² , Council Directive 93/57/EEC of 29 June 1993³ , Council Directive 94/29/EC of 23 June 1994⁴ , Council Directive 95/39/EC of 17 July 1995⁵ , Council Directive 96/33/EC of 21 May 1996⁶ , Council Directive 97/41/EC of 25 June 1997⁷ , Commission Directive 97/71/EC of 15 December 1997⁸ , Commission Directive 98/82/EC of 27 October 1998⁹ , Commission Directive 1999/65/EC of 24 June 1999¹⁰ , Commission Directive 1999/71/EC of 14 July 1999¹¹ , Commission Directive 2000/24/EC of 28 April 2000¹² , Commission Directive 2000/42/EC of 22 June 2000¹³ and the corrigenda to Commission Directive 2000/42/EC of 22 June 2000¹⁴ , Commission Directive 2000/48/EC of 25 July 2000¹⁵ ; Commission Directive 2000/58/EC of 22 September 2000¹⁶ , Commission Directive 2000/81/EC of 18 December 2000¹⁷ , Commission Directive 2000/82/EC of 20 December 2000¹⁸ , Commission Directive 2001/39/EC of 23 May 2001¹⁹ , Commission Directive 2001/48/EC of 28 June 2001²⁰ , Commission Directive 2001/57/EC of 25 July 2001²¹ , Commission Directive 2002/23/EC of 26 February 2002²² , Commission Directive 2002/42/EC of 17 May 2002²³ , Commission Directive 2002/66/EC of 16 July 2002²⁴ , Commission Directive 2002/71/EC of 19 August 2002^25, Commission Directive 2002/76/EC of 6 September 2002²⁶ and Commission Directive 2002/76/EC of 2 October 2002²⁷ hereby make the following Regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation in respect of Lindane, Quintozene and Permethrin on 1 December 2002, in respect of Bentazone, Pyridate and Metsulfuron-methyl, Oxydemeton-methyl, Dimethoate and Formothion on 1 January 2003, in respect of Parathion on 1 May 2003 and in respect of abamectin, azocyclotin and cyhexatin, bifenthrin, bitertanol, bromopropylate, clofentezine, cyromazine, fenpropimorph, flucytrinate, hexaconazole, methacrifos, myclobutanil, pencanzole, prochloraz, profenofos, resmethrin, tridemorph and triadimefon and triadimenol on 1 August 2003.

2. Part A of Annex II of the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) Regulations, 1999 ( S.I. No. 181 of 1999 ) is amended by the addition of the following entries to:

Pesticide Residues	Maximum Residue levels in mg/kg
Flupyrsulfuron-methyl	0.02^(*) Cereals
Pymetrozine	0.2 ^(*) Cereals
‘Bentazone (sum of Bentazone and the conjugates of 6-OH- and 8-OH-bentazone expressed as bentazone)	0.01 ^(*) Cereals
Pyridate (sum of pyridate, its hydrolysis product CL 9673 (6-chloro-4-hydroxy-3-phenylpyridazin) and hydrolysable conjugates of CL 9673 expressed as pyridate)	0.05 ^(*) Cereals
Lindane	0.01 ^(*) Cereals
Quintozene (sum of quintozene, and pentachloroaniline expressed as quintozene)	0.02 ^(*) Cereals
Permethrin (sum of isomers)	0.05 ^(*) Cereals
Parathion	0.05 ^(*) Cereals
Metsulfuron-methyl	0.05 ^(*) Cereals
Oxydemeton-methyl (sum of oxydemeton-methyl and demeton-S-methylsulfone expressed as oxydemeton-methyl	0.1 Barley and oats 0.02(*) Other cereals
Dimethoate (sum of dimethoate and omethoate expressed as dimethoate)	0.3 Wheat, Rye and triticale, 0.02(*) Other cereals
Formothion	0.02(*) Cereals
Abamectin (sum of avermectin B 1a, avermectin B 1b and delta-8,9 isomer of avermectin B 1a)	0.01 (*)
Azocyclotin and Cyhexatin (sum of azocyclotin and cyhexatin expressed as cyhexatin)	0.05(*)
Bifenthrin	0.5 wheat, barley, oats, triticale 0.05(*) other cereals
Bitertanol	0.05(*)
Bromopropylate	0.05(*)
Cyromazine	0.05(*)
Clofentezine (sum of all compounds containing the 2-chlorobenzoyl moiety expressed as clofentezine)	0.02(*)
Fenpropimorph	0.5 barley, wheat, oats, rye, spelt, triticale 0.05(*) other cereals
Flucythrinate (sum of isomers, expressed as flucythrinate)	0.05(*)
Hexaconazole	0.02(*)
Methacrifos	0.05(*)
Myclobutanil	0.02(*)
Penconazole	0.05(*)
Prochloraz (sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the 2,4,6-Trichloro-phenol moiety, expressed as prochloraz)	1 oats, barley 0.5 triticale, wheat, rye 0.05(*) other cereals
Profenofos	0.05(*)
Resmethrin, including other mixtures of constituent isomers (sum of isomers)	0.05(*)
Tridemorph	0.2 barley, oats 0.05(*) other cereals
Triadimenol and Triadimefon (sum of triadimenol and triadimefon)	0.2 wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticale 0.1(*) other cereals

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

November 2002

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Joe Walsh

Minister for Agriculture and Food.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These Regulations amend existing Regulations on the fixing of maximum residue levels for pesticides in and on cereals.

Published by the Stationery Office, Dublin 2.

¹ O.J. No. L221, 07.08.1986, p. 37.

² O.J. No. L126, 20.05.1988, p. 53.

³ O.J. No. L211, 23.08.1993, p. 1.

⁴ O.J. No. L189, 23.07.1994, p. 67.

⁵ O.J. No. L197, 22.08.1995, p. 29.

⁶ O.J. No. L144, 18.06.1996, p. 35.

⁷ O.J. No. L184, 12.07.1997, p. 33.

⁸ O.J. No. L347, 18.12.1997, p. 42.

⁹ O.J. No. L290, 29.10.1998, p. 25.

¹⁰ O.J. No. L172, 08.07.1999, p. 40.

¹¹ O.J. No. L194, 27.07.1999, p. 36.

¹² O.J. No. L107, 04.05.2000, p. 28.

¹³ O.J. No. L158, 30.06.2000, p. 51.

¹⁴ O.J. No. L262, 17.10.2000, p. 46.

¹⁵ O.J. No. L197, 03.08.2000, p. 26.

¹⁶ O.J. No. L244, 29.09.2000, p. 78.

¹⁷ O.J. No. L326, 22.12.2000, p. 56.

¹⁸ O.J. No. L3, 06.01.2001, p. 18.

¹⁹ O.J. No. L148, 01.06.2001, p. 70.

²⁰ O.J. No. L180, 03.07.2001, p. 26.

²¹ O.J. No. L208, 01.08.2001, p. 36.

²² O.J. No. L64, 07.03.2002, p. 13.

²³ O.J. No. L134, 22.05.2002, p. 29.

²⁴ O.J No.L192, 20.07.2002, p. 47.

²⁵ O.J No.L225, 22.08.2002, p. 21.

²⁶ O.J No.L240, 07.09.2002, p. 45.

²⁷ O.J No.L291, 28.10.2002, p. 1.

^(*) Indicates lower limit of analytical determination.

(*) Indicates lower limit of analytical determination.