The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/1109
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st August 1999.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations 1994 .

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 7 of these Regulations.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted–

(a) in column 1 in their appropriate alphabetically ordered positions the pesticides stated in column 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and

(b) in relation to each such pesticide, in column 2 the residues stated in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations opposite that pesticide.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, all of the references to the maximum levels of the pesticides listed in column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations per kilogramme of the individual products or group of products stated opposite each such pesticide in column 2 of that Schedule, shall be deleted from that Part.

Section 5 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In Part 2 of 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 3 to these Regulations together with the figure stated below the statement of that pesticide so that those figures will appear opposite the references to the product “TEA” in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations as they appear opposite the reference to that product in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

Section 6 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The maximum levels of pesticides per kilogramme of an individual product stated opposite the name of each product in Schedule 4 to these Regulations shall be substituted for the corresponding maximum levels specified for each of those products in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations.

Section 7 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In column 2 of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations–

(a) additional references to the products “Olives (table consumption)†” and “Olives (oil extract)†” shall be inserted after the reference to the product “Olives†” in that column; and

(b) additional references to the products “Sunflower seed (with shell)” and “Sunflower seed (without shell)” shall be inserted after the reference to the product “Sunflower seed*” in that column.