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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2001 No. 2419

PESTICIDES

The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2001

  Made 5th July 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 6th July 2001 
  Coming into force 1st August 2001 

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales, being designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly (the National Assembly for Wales acting in relation to Wales only), in exercise of the powers conferred on them by that section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, make the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and extent
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2001, extend to England and Wales, and come into force on 1st August 2001.

Amendment of the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995
    
2. In so far as they extend to England and Wales, the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995[3] shall be amended by substituting for the definition of "the Directive" in regulation 2(1), the following definition - 

Revocation
     3. The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2001[26] are revoked.



Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales


Elis Thomas
Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales

5th July 2001


Larry Whitty
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

25th June 2001



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations, which extend to England and Wales, further amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/887) which implement in Great Britain Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (OJ No. L230, 19.8.91, p. 1 as read with OJ No. L170, 25.6.92, p. 40).

The Regulations amend the definition of "the Directive" in S.I. 1995/887 so as to implement - 

    
  • Commission Directive 2000/66/EC (OJ No. L276, 28.10.2000, p. 35)

        
  • Commission Directive 2000/67/EC (OJ No. L276, 28.10.2000, p. 38)

        
  • Commission Directive 2000/68/EC (OJ No. L276, 28.10.2000, p. 41)

        
  • Commission Directive 2001/28/EC (OJ No. L113, 24.4.2001, p. 5)

    which add triasulfuron, esfenvalerate, bentazone and fenhexamid respectively to Annex I to the Directive.

    The Regulations revoke the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1112) which are either spent or consolidated in these Regulations.


    Notes:

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

    [2] 1972 c. 68.back

    [3] S.I. 1995/887 as amended by S.I. 1997/7, 1997/2499 and 2001/1112 (S.I. 2001/1112 is revoked by these Regulations).back

    [4] OJ No. L230, 19.8.91, p. 1 (as read with Corrigenda published in OJ No. L170, 25.6.92, p. 40).back

    [5] OJ No. L221, 31.8.93, p. 27 (as read with Corrigenda published in OJ No. L4, 6.1.96, p. 16).back

    [6] OJ No. L194, 29.7.94, p. 65.back

    [7] OJ No. L354, 31.12.94, p. 16 (as read with Corrigenda published in OJ No. L280, 23.11.95, p. 58).back

    [8] OJ No. L172, 22.7.95, p. 6.back

    [9] OJ No. L172, 22.7.95, p. 8.back

    [10] OJ No. L65, 15.3.96, p. 20.back

    [11] OJ No. L214, 23.8.96, p. 18.back

    [12] OJ No. L277, 30.10.96, p. 25.back

    [13] OJ No. L265, 27.9.97, p. 87.back

    [14] OJ No. L353, 24.12.97, p. 26.back

    [15] OJ No. L191, 7.7.98, p. 50.back

    [16] OJ No. L21, 28.1.99, p. 21.back

    [17] OJ No. L206, 5.8.99, p. 16.back

    [18] OJ No. L210, 10.8.99, p. 13.back

    [19] OJ No. L57, 2.3.2000, p. 28.back

    [20] OJ No. L197, 3.8.2000, p. 32.back

    [21] OJ No. L198, 4.8.2000, p. 39.back

    [22] OJ No. L276, 28.10.2000, p. 35.back

    [23] OJ No. L276, 28.10.2000, p. 38.back

    [24] OJ No. L276, 28.10.2000, p. 41.back

    [25] OJ No. L113, 24.4.2001, p. 5.back

    [26] S.I. 2001/1112.back



    ISBN 0 11 029778 4


     © Crown copyright 2001

    Prepared 6 August 2001


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