Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

L.N. 141 of 2008

PESTICIDES CONTROL ACT

(CAP. 430)

Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 4 and 5 of the

Pesticides Control Act, the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs,

in consultation with the Prime Minister and with the Minister for Social

Policy, has made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Plant Protection Title and scope.

Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2008 and they shall be read and

construed as one with Plant Protection Products Regulations, 2004, L.N. 115 of 2004.

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose

Commission Directive 2007#50#EC of 2 August 2007 amending Council

Directive 91#414#EEC to include beflubutamid and Spodoptera exigua

nuclear polyhedrosis virus as active substances, Commission Directive

2007#52#EC of 16 August 2007 amending Council Directive

91#414#EEC to include ethosprophos, pirimiphos-methyl and fipronil

as active substances and Commission Directive 2007#76#EC of 20

December 2007 amending Council Directive 91#414#EEC to include

fludioxonil, clomazone and prosulfocarb as active substances.

In Schedule IV to the principal regulations, immediately after Amends Schedule

IV to the principal

item 160 “Propanocarb” there shall be added the entries for items 161 regulations.

to 168 having as their Common Name Ethosprophos, Pirimiphos-methyl,

Fipronil, Beflubutamid, Spodoptera exigua, Fludioxonil, Clomazone

and Prosulfocarb as active substances as laid down in Schedule I to

these regulations.

Schedule I

Regulation 2(1)

No

Common Name

Inclusion Directive

Date for

implementation*

Ethosprophos

Commission Directive 2007/52/EC

1 April 2008

Pirimiphos-methyl

Commission Directive 2007/52/EC

1 April 2008

Fipronil

Commission Directive 2007/52/EC

1 April 2008

Beflubutamid

Commission Directive 2007/50/EC

1 June 2008

Spodoptera exigua

Commission Directive 2007/50/EC

1 June 2008

Fludioxonil

Commission Directive 2007/76/EC

1 May 2009

Clomazone

Commission Direction 2007/76/EC

1 May 2009

Prosulfocarb

Commission Directive 2007/76/EC

1 May 2009

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