Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. No. 22 of 2000).

These Regulations specify for the first time maximum residue levels for the pesticide Azoxystrobin in implementation of Commission Directive 1999/71/EC. Regulation 4 also creates offences, specifies penalties, provides defences and confers enforcement powers where these maximum residue levels have been exceeded in respect of products put into circulation. To the extent that these Regulations are made under the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, they specify maximum levels of pesticides residues which may be left in crops, food and feeding stuffs which are not the subject of the Residues Directives. Since they are made under section 16(2)(k) of that Act, regulation 3 and Schedule 2 Part 1 do no more than specify the maximum residue level which may be left in a particular product. Offences and penalties for contravention of regulation 3 are prescribed respectively by sections 16(12) and 21(3) of that Act.The Regulations also confer powers to seize and dispose of products where maximum residue levels have been exceeded (reg. 5) and prescribe how much of a particular product is to be taken into account in determining whether a maximum residue level has been exceeded in accordance with Council Directive 90/642/EC (reg. 6 and Schedule 3). Provision is also made with regard to the manner for determining whether maximum residue levels have been exceeded when found in dried or processed products or composite foods, so far as these are the subject of the Residues Directives (reg. 6).