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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 4th March 2002.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Regulation 2(1) of the Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 shall be amended by substituting for the definition of “the Directive” the following definition—“
 “the Directive” means Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, as amended by—
(a) Commission Directive 93/71/EEC;
(b) Commission Directive 94/37/EC;
(c) Commission Directive 94/79/EC;
(d) Commission Directive 95/35/EC;
(e) Commission Directive 95/36/EC;
(f) Commission Directive 96/12/EC;
(g) Commission Directive 96/46/EC;
(h) Commission Directive 96/68/EC;
(i) Council Directive 97/57/EC;
(j) Commission Directive 2000/80/EC;
(k) Commission Directive 2001/21/EC;
(l) Commission Directive 2001/28/EC;
(m) Commission Directive 2001/36/EC;
(n) Commission Directive 2001/47/EC;
(o) Commission Directive 2001/49/EC.”.
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The Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 shall be modified so that—
(a) the inclusion of the active substance flupyrsulfuron-methyl in Annex I shall not make it necessary to revoke any approval granted under regulation 7(1) (provisional approvals), or extended pursuant to regulation 7(5), in respect of any plant protection products containing that active substance, and any such approval shall continue to have effect until the date a decision made on an application for approval under regulation 5(1) (standard approvals) has effect, or 30th November 2002, whichever is the earlier; and
(b) the inclusion of the active substance fenhexamid in Annex I shall not make it necessary to revoke any approvals issued pursuant to regulation 7(1), or extended under regulation 7(5), in respect of any plant protection products containing that active substance, and any such approvals which have expired shall be deemed to have revived until the date a decision made on an application for approval of the product under regulation 5(1) has effect, or 1st August 2002, whichever is the earlier.
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The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 are hereby revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 28th January 2002.
Liam McKibben
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
