Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 377: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the European Directives that have to be implemented by her Department; when these directives were first issued; the timeframe for their implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18458/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The 23 directives currently due for implementation in my Department are set out in the schedule below. Six are overdue for transposition. Directives 2005/70/EC, 2005/74/EC and 2005/76/EC relating to plant protection products are being implemented through a package of four Statutory Instruments, three of which have been signed into effect. The remaining Statutory Instrument will be signed before 31 May 2006. Preparations for the transposition of Directives 2006/35/EC and 2006/36/EC relating to plant health, and Directive 2005/57/EC relating to plant protection products are well advanced and the Statutory Instruments will also be implemented before 31 May 2006. In all other cases I intend to have the directives implemented by the due date. Schedule Directives to be implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Food: 23.

Title of Directive

Commission Directive 2005/70/EC of 20 October 2005 amending Council Directives 76/895/EEC, 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards maximum residue levels for certain pesticides in and on cereals and certain products of animal and plant origin. (OJL 276, 21/10/05, p35)

Commission Directive 2005/74/EC of 25 October 2005 amending Council Directive 90/642/EEC as regards the maximum residue levels of ethofumesate, lambda-cyhalothrin, methomyl, pymetrozine and thiabendazole fixed therein (OJL 282/10/05, p9)

Commission Directive 2006/35/EC of 24 March 2006 amending Annexes I to IV to Council Directive 2000/29/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 (OJL 88, 25/3/06, p9)

Commission Directive 2006/36/EC of 24 March 2006 amending Directive 2001/32/EC recognising protected zones exposed to particular plant health risks in the Community and repealing Directive 92/76/EEC (OJL 88, 25/3/06, p13)

Commission Directive 2005/57/EC of 21 September 2005 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include MCPA and MCPB as active substances (OJL 246, 22/9/05, p14)

Commission Directive 2005/76/EC of 8 November 2005 amending Council Directives 90/642/EEC and 86/362/EEC as regards the maximum residue levels of kresoxim-methyl, cyromazine, bifenthrin, metalaxyl and azoxystrobin fixed therein (OJL 293 9/11/05, p14)

Commission Directive 2005/72/EC of 21 October 2005 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include chlorpyrifos, chlorpyrifos-methyl, mancozeb, maneb and meitram as acxtive substances. (OJL 279, 22/10/05, p.63)

Commission Directive 2006/9/EC of 23 January 2006 amending Council Directives 90/642/EEC as regards the maximum residue levels of diquat, fixed therein (OJL 22, 26/01/06, p24)

Commission Directive 2006/4/EC of 26 January 2006 amending the Annexes to Council Directives 86/362/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards maximum residue levels for carbofuran (OJL 23, 27/01/06, p 69)

Commission Directive 2005/43/EC of 23 June 2005 amending the Annexes to Council Directive 68/193/EEC on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine (OJL 164, 24/06/05 p37)

Commission Directive 2006/30/EC of 13 March 2006 amending the Annexes to Council Directives 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC as regards maximum residue levels for the benomyl group (OJL 75, 14/03/06, p.7)

Commission Directive 2006/10/EC of 27 January 2006 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include forchlorfenuron and indoxacarb as active substances (OJL 25, 28/01/06, p24)

Commission Directive 2006/19/EC of 14 February 2006 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include 1-methylcyclopropene as active substance (OJL 44, 15/02/06, p44)

Commission Directive 2006/13/EC of 3 February 2006 amending Annexes I and II to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed as regards dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs (OJL 32, 04/02/06, p46)

Commission Directive 2005/86/EC of 5 December 2005 amending Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed as regards camphechlor. (OJL 318, 06/12/05, p16)

Commission Directive 2005/87/EC of 5 December 2005 amending Annex I to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed as regards lead, fluorine and cadmium. (OJL 318, 06/12/05, p17)

Commission Directive 2006/26/EC of 2 March 2006 amending, for the purposes of their adaptation to technical progress, Council Directives 74/151/EEC, 77/311/EEC, 78/933/EEC and 89/173/EEC relating to wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (OJL 35, 07/03/06, p22)

Commission Directive 2006/16/EC of 7 February 2006 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include oxamyl as active substance (OJL 36, 08/02/06, p.37)

Council Directive 2005/24/EC of 14 March 2005 with regard to the use of ova and embryos and storage centres for semen from pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species. (OJL 78, 24/03/05, p43)

Commission Directive 2006/5/EC of 17 January 2006 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include warfarin as active substance (OJL 12, 18/01/06 p, 17)

Commission Directive 2006/6/EC of 17 January 2006 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include tolyfluanid as active substance (OJL 12, 18/01/06 p, 21)

Council Directive 2005/94/EC of 20 December 2005 on Community measures for the control of avian influenza and repealing Directive 92/40/EEC (OJL 10, 14/01/06, p16)

Commission Directive 2006/39/EC of 12 April 2006 amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC to include clodinafop, pirimicarb, rimsulfuron, tolclofos-methyl and triticonazole as active substances (OJL 104, 13/04/06, p30)