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These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2002, extend to England and Wales, and come into force on 31st December 2002.
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(1) In so far as they extend to England and Wales, the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1) the following definition shall be substituted for the definition of “the Directive”—“
 “the Directive” means Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market as amended by the instruments listed in Schedule AA1;”.
(3) After paragraph (5) of regulation 7 the following paragraph shall be inserted—“
(5A) The Secretary of State may additionally allow a provisional approval to continue in effect for a product following the inclusion of an active substance contained in that product in Annex I by a Directive specified in column 1 of Schedule A1—
(a) in the case of a product that contains only one active substance, until either the date when a standard approval is granted for that product, or the date listed in column 3 of Schedule A1 for that active substance, whichever is the earlier; or
(b) in the case of a product that contains more than one active substance, until either the date when a standard approval is granted for that product, or the date listed in column 3 of Schedule A1 for the later of the active substances in that product to be placed in Annex 1, whichever is the earlier.”.
(4) Regulation 27(4) shall be deleted.
(5) Before Schedule 1 there shall be added the provisions of the Schedule to these Regulations.
(6) For paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 1 there shall be substituted—“
(b) Council Directive 1999/45/EC concerning the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations.”.
(7) For sub-paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2 (labelling) there shall be substituted—“
(c) the name and the amount of each active substance; the name must be—
(i) the same as that listed in Annex I to the Council Directive 67/548/EEC, if any;
(ii) the common name given by the International Organization for Standardization, if any; or
(iii) its chemical designation according to the rules of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry contained in the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, 1979 Recommendations and 1993 Recommendations.”.
(8) For sub-paragraph 1(f) of Schedule 2 there shall be substituted—“
(f) the particulars required for the product in Articles 10–12 of Council Directive 1999/45/EC concerning the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations and information on first aid;”.
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The Plant Protection Products (Amendment)(No. 2) Regulations 2002 are revoked.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales
D. Elis-Thomas
Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales
20th November 2002Whitty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
21st November 2002
SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(5)
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SCHEDULE AA1 
Regulation 2


INSTRUMENTS ACTIVE SUBSTANCES ADDED TO ANNEX I
Commission Directive 93/71/EEC; None
Commission Directive 94/37/EC; None
Commission Directive 94/79/EC; None
Commission Directive 95/35/EC; None
Commission Directive 95/36/EC; None
Commission Directive 96/12/EC; None
Commission Directive 96/46/EC; None
Commission Directive 96/68/EC; None
Council Directive 97/57/EC; None
Commission Directive 2000/80/EC; lambda-cyhalothrin, imazalil, azoxystrobin, kresoxim-methyl, spiroxamine, azimsulfuron, fluroxypyr, metsulfuron-methyl, triasulfuron, esfenvalerate, prohexadione-calcium and bentazone
Commission Directive 2001/21/EC; amitrole, diquat, pyridate and thiabendazole
Commission Directive 2001/28/EC; fenhexamid
Commission Directive 2001/36/EC; None
Commission Directive 2001/47/EC; Paecilomyces fumosoroseus
Commission Directive 2001/49/EC; flupyrsulfuron-methyl
Commission Directive 2001/87/EC; acibenzolar-s-methyl, cyclanilide, ferric phosphate, pymetrozine and pyraflufen-ethyl
Commission Directive 2001/99/EC; glyphosate and thifensulfuron-methyl
Commission Directive 2001/103/EC; 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
Commission Directive 2002/18/EC; isoproturon
Commission Directive 2002/48/EC; iprovalicarb, prosulfuron and sulfosulfuron
Commission Directive 2002/64/EC; cinidon-ethyl, cyhalofop-butyl, famoxadone, florasulam, metalaxyl-m and picolinafen
Commission Directive 2002/81/EC; flumioxazine
And as from 1st March 2003 amended by: 
Commission Directive 2002/37/EC ethofumesate
SCHEDULE A1
Regulation 7(5A)


Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Implementing Directive or Decision Active Substance Date before which regulation 5 approvals must be granted
Commission Directive 2001/87/EC acibenzolar-s-methyl and pymetrozine 31st March 2003
Commission Directive 2002/48/EC Sulfosulfuron and prosulfuron 31st December 2003
Commission Directive 2002/64/EC cinidon-ethyl, florasulam, picolinafen, famoxadone and metalaxyl-M 31st March 2004”