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

L.N. 272 of 2008

PESTICIDES CONTROL ACT

(CAP. 430)

Biocides (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 with the Minister for Social

Policy, has made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Biocides (Amendment) Title and scope.

(No. 2) Regulations, 2008 and they shall be read and construed as one

with Biocides Regulations, 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 294 of 2004.

regulations”.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose

Commission Directive 2007#69#EC of 29 November 2007 amending

Directive 98#8#EC of the European Parliament and of the Council to

include difethialone as an active substance in Annex I thereto and to

transpose Commission Directive 2007#70#EC of 29 November 2007

amending Directive 98#8#EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council to include carbon dioxides as an active substance in Annex IA

thereto.

(3) These regulations shall enter into force on 1 st November, Commencement.

2009.

Schedule III to the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends Schedule

III to the principal

follows>-

regulations.

(a) immediately after the words “SCHEDULE III” there

shall be inserted the words “Part 1”<

(b) immediately after item 2 there shall be added the

following new item>-

Schedule III

No

Common Name

Inclusion Directive

Date of

implementation (*)

“3

Difethialone

Commission Directive

1 November

2007#69#EC

2009”< and

(c) immediately after Part 1 in Schedule III as renumbered

in the principal regulations, there shall be added the following new

Part>-

“Part IA

No

Common Name

Inclusion Directive

Date of

implementation

Carbon Dioxide

Commission Directive

2007#70#EC

1 November 2009”.

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