Origin (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2008

L.N. 267 of 2008

PESTICIDES CONTROL ACT

(CAP. 430)

Maximum Residue Levels of Pesticides in Produce of Animal

Origin (Amendment) (No. 2) 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 the Minister for Social

Policy, has made the following regulations>–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Maximum Residue Title and scope.

Levels of Pesticides in Produce of Animal Origin (Amendment) (No.

2) Regulations, 2008, and they shall be read and construed as one with

the Maximum Residue Levels of Pesticides in Produce of Animal Origin

Regulations, 2005, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”. L.N. 117 of 2005.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose

Commission Directive 2008#17#EC of 19 February 2008 amending

certain Annexes to Council Directives 86#362#EEC, 86#363#EEC and

90#642#EEC as regards maximum residue levels for acephate,

acetamiprid, acibenzolar-S-methyl, aldrin, benalaxyl, benomyl,

carbendazim, chlormequat, chlorothalonil, chlorpyrifos, clofentezine,

cyfluthrin, cypermethrin, cyromazine, dieldrin, dimethoate,

dithiocarbamates, esfenvalerate, famoxadone, fenhexamid, fenitrothion,

fenvalerate, glyphosate, indoxacarb, lambda-cyhalothrin, mepanipyrim,

metalaxyl-M, methidathion, methoxyfenozide, pymetrozine,

pyraclostrobin pyrimethanil, spiroxamine, thiacloprid, thiophanate-

methyl and trifloxystrobin.

Part B of Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be Amends Schedule II

to the principal

amended as follows>

regulations.

(a) for item 6 GLYPHOSATE there shall be substituted the

following>

Maximum levels in mg#kg

Of meat, including

fat, preparations of

meat, offal and

For milk and milk

of shelled fresh eggs,

animal fats listed in

products listed in

for bird’s eggs and

Pesticide residues

Annex I under

Annex I under

egg yolks listed in

headings Nos ex

headings Nos 0401,

Annex I under

0201,0202, 0203,

0402, 0405 00 and

headings Nos 0407

0204, 0205 00 00,

00 and 0408

0206, 0207, ex 0208,

0209 00, 0210, 1601

00 and 1602

“GLYPHOSATE

2(p) kidney of cattle

0,05(*)(l)

0,05 (*)(l)”< and

0.2(p) live of cattle

0.5(p) kidney of pigs

0.1(p) kidney of

poultry

0.05(*)(l) others

(b) immediately at the end of the footnotes thereto, after

paragraph (k) thereof, there shall be added the following new

paragraph>

“(l) Indicates that the maximum residue level has been

established provisionally in accordance with Article 4(1)(f)

of Directive 91#414#EEC.”.

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