Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations,

L.N. 91 of 2009

PESTICIDES CONTROL ACT

(CAP. 430)

Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations,

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

Products (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2009 and they shall be

read and construed as one with Plant Protection Products Regulations,

2004, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose

Commission Directive 2008/44/EC of 4 April 2008 amending

Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include benthiavalicarb, boscalid,

carvone, fluoxastrobin, Paecilomyces lilacinus and prothioconazole

as active substances, Commission Directive 2008/107/EC of 25

November 2008 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include

abamectin, epoxiconazole, fenpropimorph, fenpyroximate and

tralkoxydim as active substances, Commission Directive 2008/108/

EC of 26 November 2008 amending Council Directive 91/414/

EEC to include flutolanil, benfluralin, fluazinam, fuberidazole and

mepiquat as active substances and Commission Directive 2008/113/

EC of 8 December 2008 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC

to include several micro-organisms as active substances.

In schedule IV to the principal regulations immediately

after item 193 “Diuron” there shall be added the following

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