Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 2933 of 2006)

S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S 2006 No. 2933 PESTICIDES, ENGLAND AND WALES The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006 Made - - - - 8th November 2006 Laid before Parliament 13th November 2006 Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(3) The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales are designated(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(b) 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 upon them by that section, they make the following Regulations: Citation, interpretation and commencement 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2006. (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005(c). (3) These Regulations come into force— (a) for the purposes of regulation 2(3), on 1st February 2007; (b) for all other purposes on 6th December 2006. Amendment to the principal Regulations 2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows. (2) At the end of Schedule 1 (instruments amending Council Directive 91/414), insert in the respective columns indicated the entry set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations. (3) At the end of Schedule 1, insert in the respective columns indicated the entries set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations. Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales (a) S.I. 1972/1811 and, in the case of the National Assembly for Wales, S.I. 2005/2766. (b) 1972 c.68. (c) S.I. 2005/1435, amended by S.I. 2005/3197 and S.I. 2006/1295. 2 D Elis-Thomas Presiding Officer 8th November 2006 National Assembly for Wales Jeff Rooker Minister of State 27th October 2006 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 3 SCHEDULE Regulation 2 AMENDMENTS TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS PART 1 ENTRY INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 6th December 2006 Instruments Active substances added to Annex I Commission Directive 2006/45/EC(a); None PART 2 ENTRIES INSERTED INTO SCHEDULE 1 ON 1st FEBRUARY 2007 Instruments Active substances added to Annex I Commission Directive 2006/39/EC(b); clodinafop, pirimicarb, rimsulfuron, tolclofos methyl and triticonazole Commission Directive 2006/41/EC(c) clothianidin and pethoxamid (a) OJ No. L130, 18.5.2006, p. 27. (b) OJ No. L104, 13.4.2006, p. 30. (c) OJ No. L187, 8.7.2006, p. 24. EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1435) (“the principal Regulations”) which implement in England and Wales 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 corrigenda published in OJ No. L170, 25.6.92, p.40). Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, which sets out the instruments that amend that Directive, is amended by the insertion of the entries set out in the two Parts of the Schedule to these Regulations. A full regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared in respect of these Regulations as they have no impact on the costs of business. £3.00 Crown copyright 2006 Printed and published in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and Queen’s Printer of Acts of Parliament. E1390 11/2006 161390T 19585