S.I. No. 337/1996 - European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1996.

S.I. No. 337 of 1996.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (PESTICIDE RESIDUES) (CEREALS) (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1996.

I, Ivan Yates, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry, 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 96/33/EC of 21 May, 1996¹, hereby make the following Regulations:

¹O.J. No. L144 of 18/6/1996

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1996 and shall come into operation on the 20th day of November 1996.

(2) The European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) Regulations, 1988 and 1996 and these Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) Regulations, 1988 to 1996 and shall be construed together as one.

2. In these Regulations -

"the Principal Regulations" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) Regulations, 1988 ( S.I. No. 216 of 1988 );

"the Regulations of 1993" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) Regulations, 1993 ( S.I. No. 316 of 1993 );

"the Regulations of 1995" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) Regulations, 1995 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1995 ):

"the Regulations of 1996" means the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Cereals) (Amendment) Regulations, 1996 ( S.I. No. 47 of 1996 ).

3. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended :

(a) by the addition of the following text to the text of Annex II (as amended by the Regulations of 1993, 1995 and 1996):

Pesticide residues	Maximum levels in mg/kg (ppm)
65 TRIFORINE	0.1 wheat, rye, triticale, barley, oats 0.05(*) other cereals
66 ENDOSULFAN Residue: sum of alpha and beta endosulfan sulphate expressed as endosulphate	0.1 (a) wheat, rye, triticale, barley, oats 0.2 (a) maize 0.05 (*) others
67 FENBUTATIN OXIDE	0.05 (*)
68 TRIAZAPHOS	(b) wheat, rye, triticale, barley, oats, maize 0.02 (*) others
69 DIAZINON	0.02 (*) buckwheat, millet 0.05 (b) others
70 MECARBAM	0.05 (*) cereals
71 FENTIN Residue: fentin expressed as triphyltin cation	0.05 (*)
72 PHORATE Residue: sum of phorate, its oxygen analogue and their sulfoxides and sulphones expressed as phorate	(a) maize 0.05 (*) others
73 DICOFOL Residue: sum of P, P₁ and O, P₁ isomers	0.02 (*)
74 CHLORMEQUAT	5 oats 2 wheat, rye, triticale, barley (a) maize 0.05 (*) others
75 PROPYZAMIDE	0.02 (*)
76 PROPOXUR	0.05 (*)
77 DISULFOTON Residue: sum of disulfoton, disulfoton sulphoxide and disulfoton sulphone expressed as disulfoton	0.1 wheat 0.2 barley, sorghum 0.02 (*) others

and

(b) the addition in the footnotes in Annex II of the following footnotes:

(a) and (b) Should levels not be adopted by 30 April 2000, the following levels shall apply as indicated thereafter:

(a) 0.05(*)

(b) 0.02(*)

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of November 1996

Ivan Yates

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry

Explanatory Note

These Regulations amend existing Regulations by extending the list of pesticides for which residue maximum levels have been set.