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Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

S.R. 1999/57 · Made 15 February 1999

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PESTICIDES

Made 15th February 1999

Coming into operation 22nd March 1999

The Department of Agriculture, being a Department designatedf1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972f2 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1972/1811

f2

1972 c. 68

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 22nd March 1999.

(2)

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954f1 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

2Amendment of the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

Regulation 2(1) of the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995f1 shall be amended by substituting for the definition of “the Directive” the following definition–

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

Liam McKibben

Assistant Secretary

15th February 1999.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 371), as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 456, S.R. 1997 No. 471 and S.R. 1997 No. 507, (“the principal Regulations”) which implement in Northern Ireland Council Directive 91/414/EEC (O.J. No. L230, 19.8.91, p. 1 to be read with the Corrigenda published in O.J. No. L170, 25.6.92, p. 40) concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (“the Directive”), as amended.

The Regulations amend the definition of the Directive provided in the principal Regulations in consequence of Commission Directive 98/47/EC (O.J. No. L191, 7.7.98, p. 50) which includes an active substance (azoxystrobin) in Annex I to the Directive.