S.I. No. 534/2002 -- European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002

S.I. No. 534/2002 -- European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002 2002 534

S.I. No. 534 of 2002

European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (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 86/363/EEC of 24 July 1986¹ , Council Directive 93/57/EEC of 29 June 1993² , Council Directive 94/29/EC of 23 June 1994³ , Council Directive 95/39/EC of 17 July 1995⁴ and the corrigenda to Council Directive 95/39/EC⁵ , 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 and the corrigenda to Commission Directive 98/82/EC of 27 October 1998 ¹⁰ , 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 2000/58/EC of 22 September 2000¹⁵ , Commission Directive 2000/81/EC of 18 December 2000¹⁶ , Commission Directive 2000/82/EC of 20 December 2000¹⁷ , Commission Directive 2001/39/EC of 23 May 2001¹⁸ , Commission Directive 2001/57/EC of 25 July 2001¹⁹ , Commission Directive 2002/23/EC of 26 February 2002²⁰ , Commission Directive 2002/42/EC of 17 May 2002²¹ , Commission Directive 2002/66/EC of 16 July 2002²² , Commission Directive 2002/71/EC of 19 August 2002²³ and Commission Directive 2002/79/EC of 2 October 2002²⁴ hereby make the following Regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation in respect of Lindane and Quintozene on 1 December 2002, in respect of Bentazone, Pyridate and Oxydemetonmethyl on 1 January 2003, respect of Parathion on 1 May 2003 and in respect of abamectin, azocyclotin and cyhexatin, bifenthrin, bitertanol, bromopropylate, clofentezine, cyromazine, fenpropimorph, flucytrinate, methacrifos, myclobutanil, pencanzole, prochloraz, profenofos, Resmethrin, Tridemorph, and triadimefon and triadimenol on 1 August 2003.

2. Annex II of the European Communities (Pesticide Residues) (Foodstuffs of Animal Origin) Regulations, 1999 ( S.I. No. 180 of 1999 ). is amended by

(a) the addition of the following entries to Part A of Annex II:

Maximum levels in mg/kg
Pesticide Residues	of fat contained in meat, preparations of meat, offals and animal fats listed in Annex I within CN codes 0201, 0202, 0203, 0204, 0205 00 00, 0206, 0207, ex 0208, 0209 00, 0210, 1601 00 and 1602 in accordance with footnotes (1) and (4)	for cows' milk and whole cream cows' milk listed in Annex 1 within CN codes 0401; for the other foodstuffs within CN codes 0401, 0402, 0405 00 and 0406 in accordance with footnotes (2) and (4)	of shelled fresh eggs, in birds' eggs and egg yokes listed in Annex 1 within CN codes 0407 00 and 0408 in accordance with footnotes (3) and (4)
Abamectin (sum of avermectin B1a, avermectin B1b and delta-8,9 isomer of avermectin B1a)	0.02 cattle liver (see Regulation (EC) No3425/93) 0.01(*) other products	0.005(*)	0.01(*)
Bifenthrin	0.1 cattle fat 0.05(*) other products	0.01(*)	0.01(*)
Bitertanol	0.05(*)	0.05(*)	0.05(*)
Bromopropylate	0.05(*)	0.05(*)	0.05(*)
Flucythrinate (sum of isomers, expressed as flucythrinate)	0.05(*)	0.05(*)	0.05(*)
Lindane	Poultry meat 0.07 Others 0.02	0.001 ^(*)	0.1
Methacrifos	0.01(*)	0.01(*)	0.01(*)
Parathion	0.5 ^(*)	0.05 ^(*)	0.05 ^(*)
Penconazole	0.05(*)	0.01(*)	0.05(*)
Prochloraz (sum of prochloraz and its metabolites containing the 2,4,6-Trichloro-phenol moiety, expressed as prochloraz)	0.2 bovine fat 2.0 bovine liver 0.5 bovine kidney 0.1(*) other products	0.02 (*)	0.1(*)
Profenofos	0.05(*)	0.01(*)	0.05(*)
	0.01 ^(*)	0.01 ^(*)	0.01^(*)
Quintozene
Resmethrin, including other mixtures of constituent isomers (sum of isomers)	0.1(*)	0.1(*)	0.1(*)
Tridemorph	0.05(*)	0.05(*)	0.05(*)
Triadimenol and Triadimefon (sum of triadimenol and triadimefon)	0.1(*)	0.1(*)	0.1(*)

and

(b) the addition of the following entries to Part B of Annex II:

Maximum levels in mg/kg
Pesticide Residues	of meat including fat, preparations of meat, offals and animal fats listed in Annex I within CN codes 0201, 0202, 0203, 0204, 0205 00 00, 0206, 0207, ex 0208, 0209 00, 0210, 1601 00 and 1602	for milk and milk products listed in Annex 1 within CN codes 0401, 0402, 0405 00 and 0406	of shelled fresh eggs, for birds' eggs and egg yokes listed in Annex 1 within CN codes 0407 00 and 0408
Pymetrozine	0.01 ^(*)	0.01 ^(*)	0.01 ^(*)
‘Bentazone	0.05 ^(*)	0.02 ^(*)	0.05 (*)
Pyridate (sum of pyridate and its hydrolysis product CL 9673 (6-chloro-4- hydroxy-3-phenylpyridazin) expressed as pyridate)	kidney except poultry 0.4 other products ^(*)	0.05 ^(*)	0.05 (*)
Oxydemetonmethyl (sum of oxydemetonmethyl and demeton-S-methylsulfone expressed as oxydemetonmethyl	0.02 (*)	0.02(*)	0.02(*)
Azocyclotin and Cyhexatin (sum of azocyclotin and cyhexatin expressed as cyhexatin)	0.2 meat of cattle 0.05(*) other products	0.05(*)	0.05(*)
Fenpropimorph carboxylic acid (BF 421-2) expressed as fenpropimorph	0.3 liver of cattle, goat, pig and sheep 0.05 kidney of cattle, goat, pig and sheep 0.01(*) poultry meat, fat, edible offal 0.02 meat of cattle, goat, pig and sheep 0.01 other products	0.01	0.01(*)
Cyromazine	0.05(*) all products except sheep	0.02(*)	0.2
Clofentezine (sum of all compounds containing the 2-chlorobenzoyl moiety expressed as clofentezine)	0.1 liver of cattle, sheep and goat 0.05(*) other products	0.05(*)	0.02(*)
Alpha-(3-hydroxybutyl)-alpha-(4-chlorophenyl) - 1H - 1,2,4 -triazole -1-propanenitrile (RH9090) expressed as myclobutanil)	0.01(*)	0.01(*)	0.01(*)

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 foodstuffs of animal origin.

Published by the Stationery Office, Dublin 2.

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