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EU Legislation

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the European Union directives and regulations relating to her Department that have been implemented in each of the last two years, specifying (a) the title and purpose of each, (b) the cost to public funds of each and (c) the cost to businesses of each. [202364]

Alun Michael: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs plays a leading role in the UK's EU policy on the environment, agriculture, fisheries, animal and plant health.

In answer to part (a) , the table shows all Directives agreed in the UK in the years 2002 and 2003, for which Defra took the lead, and which have since been implemented in the UK. Regulations have a direct effect in the laws of member states and do not usually require Governments to take action to implement them. The table does not show Regulations, as this information is not held centrally and could be assembled only at disproportionate cost. Details of all Directives and Regulations in force can be found on the Eur-Lex database available on the European Union's website.

The Department does not hold information in the form requested in part (b) . This information could be assembled only at disproportionate cost.

For part (c) , Departments are required to produce regulatory impact assessments (RIAs) for proposals, including those originating in European legislation, likely to impose significant costs on business, charities or voluntary organisations. Copies of these are placed in the Library of the House.

Directive No	Directive Name
2002/003/EC	Relating to ozone in ambient air
2002/004/EC	Registration of establishments keeping laying hens
2002/005/EC	Amending Annex II to Council Directive 90/642/EEC as regards the fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and on certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables
2002/008/EC	Minimum conditions for examining vegetables and agricultural varieties
2002/018/EC	Amending Annex I to Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market to include isoproturon as an active substance
2002/023/EC	Fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and on cereals, foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables respectively
2002/028/EC	Protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the community
2002/029/EC	Amending Directive 2001/32/EC as regards certain protected zones exposed to particular plant health risks in the community
2002/031/EC	Energy labelling of household air conditioners
2002/033/EC	Amending Directives 90/425/EEC and 92/118/EEC as regards health requirements for animal by-products
2002/036/EC	On protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community
2002/037/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include ethofumesate as an active substance
2002/040/EC	Commission Directive 2002/040/EC implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of household electric ovens
2002/042/EC	Fixing maximum levels of pesticide residues
2002/045/EC	Relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations (short-chain chlorinated paraffins)
2002/048/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include iprovalicarb, prosulfuron and sulfosulfuron as active substances
2002/060/EC	Laying down specific provisions for the control of African swine fever
2002/062/EC	Adapting to technical progress for the ninth time Annex I to Council Directive 76/769/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the member states on marketing and use of (organostannic compounds)
2002/063/EC	Establishing community methods of sampling for the official control of pesticides residues in and on products of the plant and animal origin and repealing Directive 79/700/EEC
2002/064/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include cinidon-ethyl, cyhalofop butyl, famoxadone, florasulam, metalaxyl-M and picolinafen as active substances
2002/066/EC	Amending the Annexes to Directive 76/895/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards the fixing of maximum levels for pesticides residues in and on fruit and vegetables
2002/068/EC	On the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants
2002/071/EC	Amending the Annexes to Directive 76/895/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards the fixing of maximum levels for pesticides residues (formothion, dimethoate and oxydemeton-methyl)
2002/076/EC	Fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues (metsulfuron methyl) in and on cereals and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables
2002/079/EC	Amending the Annexes to Council Directives 76/895/EEC, 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards fixing of maximum levels for certain pesticides residues
2002/081/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include flumioxazine as an active substance (Plant Protection Products)
2002/097/EC	Amending the Annexes to Council Directives 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in cereals and foodstuffs in products of animal and plant origin
2002/100/EC	Fixing of maximum residue levels for azoxystrobin
2003/002/EC	Relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of arsenic
2003/005/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include deltamethrin as active substance
2003/011/EC	Relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations (pentabromodiphenyl ether octabromodiphenyl ether)
2003/021/EC	As regards certain protected zones exposed to particular plant health risks in the Community
2003/022/EC	On protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community
2003/023/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include imazamox, oxasulftiron, ethoxysulfuron, foramsulfuron, oxadiargyl and cyazofamid as active substances
2003/031/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include 2,4-DB, betacyfluthrin, cyfluthrin, iprodione, linuron, maieic hydrazide and pendimethalin as active substances
2003/039/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include propireb and propyzamide as active substances
2003/045/EC	On the marketing and use of seed of oil and fibre plants
2003/046/EC	As regards certain protected zones exposed to particular plant health risks in the Community
2003/047/EC	On protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community
2003/053/EC	Relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations (nonylphenol, nonylphenol ethoxylate and cement)
2003/060/EC	Fixing maximum levels for certain pesticide residues in and on cereals, foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables
2003/062/EC	Maximum pesticide residue levels for hexaconazole, clofentezine, myclobutanyl and prochloraz
2003/066/EC	Energy labelling of household electric refrigerators, freezers and their combinations
2003/068/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include trifloxystrobin, carfentrazone-ethyl, meso-trone, fenamidone and isoxaflutole as active substances
2003/069/EC	Maximum residue levels for chlormequat, lambda-cyhalothrin, kresoxim-methyl, azoxystrobin and certain dithiocarbamates
2003/070/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include mecoprop, mecoprop-P and propiconazole as active substances
2003/074/EC	Concerning the prohibition on the use in stock farming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists
2003/079/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include Coniothyrium minitrans as an active substance
2003/081/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include molinate, thiram and ziram as active substances
2003/082/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC as regards standard phrases for special risks and safety precautions for plant protection products
2003/084/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include flurtamane, flufenacet, iodosulfiiron, dimethenamide-p, picoxystrobin, frosthiazate-silthiofam as active substances
2003/090/EC	As regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination and the minimum conditions for examining certain varieties of agricultural plant species
2003/091/EC	As regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination and the minimum conditions for examining certain varieties of vegetable species
2003/099/EC	On the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents
2003/112/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include paraquat as an active substance
2003/113/EC	Amending Annexes to Council Directives 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards the fixing of maximum levels for certain pesticide residues in and on cereals, foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables
2003/118/EC	Amending Annexes to Council Directives 76/895/EEC, 86/362/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards maximum residue levels for acephate, 2,4-D and parathion-methyl
2003/119/EC	Amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include mesosulfron, propoxycarbazone and zoxamide as active substances

 
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