Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crop, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. No. 1487 of 1996).

These Regulations amend the principal Regulations of 1994. They implement Council Directives 95/38/EC, 95/39/EC and 95/61/EC by specifying maximum levels of pesticides residues which may be left in crops, food and feeding stuffs. Additionally these Regulations: (a) remove maximum levels which were included in Part I of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations by virtue of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 and which now have been replaced by Community levels.; (b) correct an error in Part 2 of Schedule 2; (c) in implementing Council Directive 95/38/EC, add spices to the list of groups of products to which Community levels apply. (9 regulations and 5 Schedules)