The Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997

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The Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997

Statutory Instruments

PESTICIDES

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

30 th January 1997

Coming into force

31 st January 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 16(2) and 24(3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1) , and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having regard to the interests of persons supplying information for the purposes of section 16 of that Act and after consultation with the Advisory Committee on Pesticides established under section 16(7) of that Act(2) and with the Health and Safety Commission, hereby make the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Title, extent and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Basic Conditions) Regulations 1997 , shall apply in Great Britain and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1985 Act” means the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985;

“active substance” has the meaning assigned to it in regulation 2(1) of the Plant Protection Products Regulations;

“aerial application” means the application of a prescribed plant protection product from an aircraft in flight;

“agricultural” has the meaning assigned to it in section 24(1) of the 1985 Act;

“contravenes” includes “fails to comply with”;

“creature” means any living organism other than a human being or plant;

“crops” includes any form of vegetable produce;

“ground water” means any waters contained in underground strata;

“organism” means any animal, plant, fungus or micro-organism capable of carrying on life processes;

“the Plant Protection Products Regulations” means the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995(3);

“plant” means any form of vegetable matter, while it is growing and after it has been harvested, gathered, felled or picked, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of this definition, includes—

agricultural crops;

trees and bushes grown for purposes other than those of agriculture;

wild plants; and

fungi;

“prescribed plant protection product” has the ...

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