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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 11th April 2005.
(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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(1) The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of “the Residues Directives” there shall be substituted the following definition:“
 “the Residues Directives” means Council Directive 86/362/EEC, Council Directive 86/363/EEC and Council Directive 90/642/EEC, in each case amended as at the date of the making of the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops, Food and Feeding Stuffs) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.”.
(3) In Part II of Schedule 2, for the columns relating to the pesticides Bifenthrin and Famoxadone there shall be substituted the columns of maximum permitted levels for residues of those pesticides as specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 25th February 2005.
D. Small
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(3)


Group to which food belongs Groups include the following products Bifenthrin Famo-xadone
1. Fruit, fresh, dried or uncooked, preserved by freezing not containing added sugar: nuts

i 
CITRUS FRUIT
 Grapefruit 0.1 0.02*
 Lemons 0.1 0.02*
 Limes 0.1 0.02*
 Mandarins (inc. clementines & similar hybrids) 0.1 0.02*
 Oranges 0.1 0.02*
 Pomelos 0.1 0.02*
 Others 0.1 0.02*

ii 
TREE NUTS (shelled or unshelled)
 Almonds 0.05* 0.02*
 Brazil nuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Cashew nuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Chestnuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Coconuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Hazelnuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Macadamia nuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Pecans 0.05* 0.02*
 Pine nuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Pistachios 0.05* 0.02*
 Walnuts 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*

iii 
POME FRUIT
 Apples 0.3 0.02*
 Pears 0.3 0.02*
 Quinces 0.3 0.02*
 Others 0.3 0.02*

iv 
STONE FRUIT
 Apricots 0.2 0.02*
 Cherries 0.2 0.02*
 Peaches (inc. nectarines & similar hybrids) 0.2 0.02*
 Plums 0.2 0.02*
 Others 0.2 0.02*

v 
BERRIES AND SMALL FRUIT
 
(a) Table & wine grapes
 Table grapes 0.2 2
 Wine grapes 0.2 2
 
(b) Strawberries (other than wild) 0.5 0.02*
 
(c) Cane Fruit (other than wild)
 Blackberries 0.3 0.02*
 Dewberries 0.05* 0.02*
 Loganberries 0.05* 0.02*
 Raspberries 0.3 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*
 
(d) Other small fruit & berries (other than wild)
 Bilberries 0.05* 0.02*
 Cranberries 0.05* 0.02*
 Currants (red, black & white) 0.05* 0.02*
 Gooseberries 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*
 
(e) Wild berries & wild fruit 0.05* 0.02*

vi 
MISCELLANEOUS FRUIT
 Avocados 0.05* 0.02*
 Bananas 0.1 0.02*
 Dates 0.05* 0.02*
 Figs 0.05* 0.02*
 Kiwi fruit 0.05* 0.02*
 Kumquats 0.05* 0.02*
 Litchis 0.05* 0.02*
 Mangoes 0.05* 0.02*
 Olives (table consumption) 0.05* 0.02*
 Olives (oil extract) 0.05* 0.02*
 Papaya 0.05* 0.02*
 Passion fruit 0.05* 0.02*
 Pineapples 0.05* 0.02*
 Pomegranates 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*
2. Vegetables, fresh or uncooked, frozen or dry

i 
ROOT AND TUBER VEGETABLES
 Beetroot 0.05* 0.02*
 Carrots 0.05* 0.02*
 Celeriac 0.05* 0.02*
 Horseradish 0.05* 0.02*
 Jerusalem artichokes 0.05* 0.02*
 Parsnips 0.05* 0.02*
 Parsley root 0.05* 0.02*
 Radishes 0.05* 0.02*
 Salsify 0.05* 0.02*
 Sweet potatoes 0.05* 0.02*
 Swedes 0.05* 0.02*
 Turnips 0.05* 0.02*
 Yams 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*

ii 
BULB VEGETABLES
 Garlic 0.05* 0.02*
 Onions 0.05* 0.02*
 Shallots 0.05* 0.02*
 Spring onions 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*

ii 
FRUITING VEGETABLES
 
(a) Solanacea
 Tomatoes 0.2 1
 Peppers 0.2 0.02*
 Chili peppers 0.2 0.02*
 Aubergines 0.2 0.2
 Others 0.2 0.02*
 
(b) Cucurbits-edible peel
 Cucumbers 0.1 0.2
 Gherkins 0.1 0.2
 Courgettes 0.1 0.2
 Others 0.1 0.2
 
(c) Cucurbits-inedible peel
 Melons 0.05* 0.3
 Squashes 0.05* 0.02*
 Watermelons 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*
 
(d) Sweet corn 0.05* 0.02*

iv 
BRASSICA VEGETABLES
 
(a) Flowering Brassicas
 Broccoli 0.2 0.02*
 Cauliflower 0.2 0.02*
 Others 0.2 0.02*
 
(b) Head Brassicas
 Brussels sprouts 1 0.02*
 Head cabbage 1 0.02*
 Others 1 0.02*
 
(c) Leafy Brassicas
 Chinese cabbage 0.05* 0.02*
 Kale 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*
 
(d) Kohlrabi 0.05* 0.02*

v 
LEAF VEGETABLES AND FRESH HERBS
 
(a) Lettuce & similar
 Cress 2 0.02*
 Lamb’s lettuce 2 0.02*
 Lettuce 2 0.02*
 Scarole 2(35) 0.02*(35)
 Others 2 0.02*
 
(b) Spinach & similar
 Spinach 0.05* 0.02*
 Beet leaves (chard) 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*
 
(c) Watercress 0.05* 0.02*
 
(d) Witloof 0.05* 0.02*
 
(e) Herbs
 Chervil 0.05* 0.02*
 Chives 0.05* 0.02*
 Parsley 0.05* 0.02*
 Celery leaves 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*

vi 
LEGUME VEGETABLES (fresh)
 Beans (with pods) 0.5 0.02*
 Beans (without pods) 0.05* 0.02*
 Peas (with pods) 0.1 0.02*
 Peas (without pods) 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*

vii 
STEM VEGETABLES
 Asparagus 0.05* 0.02*
 Cardoons 0.05* 0.02*
 Celery 0.05* 0.02*
 Fennel 0.05* 0.02*
 Globe artichokes 0.05* 0.02*
 Leeks 0.05* 0.02*
 Rhubarb 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*

viii 
FUNGI
 
(a) Cultivated mushrooms 0.05* 0.02*
 
(b) Wild mushrooms 0.05* 0.02*
3. PULSES
 Beans 0.05* 0.02*
 Lentils 0.05* 0.02*
 Peas 0.05* 0.02*
 Others 0.05* 0.02*
4. OILSEEDS
 Linseed 0.1* 0.05*
 Peanuts 0.1* 0.05*
 Poppy seed 0.1* 0.05*
 Sesame seed 0.1* 0.05*
 Sunflower seed 0.1* 0.05*
 Rape seed 0.1* 0.05*
 Soya bean 0.1 0.05*
 Mustard seed 0.1* 0.05*
 Cotton seed 0.1* 0.05*
 Others 0.1* 0.05*
5. POTATOES
 Early potatoes 0.05* 0.02*
 Ware potatoes 0.05* 0.02*
6. TEA
 (dried leaves and stalks, fermented or otherwise, Camellia sinesis) 5 0.05*
7. HOPS (dried)
 including hop pellets & unconcentrated powder 10 0.05*
8. CEREALS
 Wheat 0.5 0.1
 Rye 0.05* 0.1
 Barley 0.5 0.2
 Sorghum 0.05* 0.1
 Oats 0.5 0.1
 Triticale 0.5 0.1
 Maize 0.05* 0.02*
 Buckwheat 0.05* 0.1
 Millet 0.05* 0.1
 Rice(1) 0.05* 0.02*
 Other cereals(2) 0.05* 0.1
9. PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN
 Meat, fat & preparations of meat(3) 0.1(41)0.05*(17) 0.05*
 Milk(4) & Dairy produce(5) 0.01* 0.05*
 Eggs(6) 0.01* 0.05*