Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument (No. 01) 2022 (Cth)

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument (No. 01) 2022

I, Sheila Logan, Delegate of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, make the following instrument.

Dated                                       2 February 2022

Sheila Logan

Delegate

1  Name

This instrument is the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Amendment Instrument (No. 01) 2022.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 6(2), for the purposes of subparagraph 5A(3)(b)(iii) of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code, as scheduled to the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code (MRL Standard) Instrument 2019

1  Schedule 1, Table 1—MRLs in food commodities

For each of the following compounds, omit the associated foods and MRLs listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated foods and MRLs listed under 'substitute' (if any):

COMPOUND	FOOD	MRL (mg/kg)
Difenoconazole
OMIT:
VR       0574	Beetroot	0.5
VR       0577	Carrot	0.2
VS       0624	Celery	3
GC      0080	Cereal grains	*0.01
VR       0589	Potato	*0.02
VO      0448	Tomato	0.5
SUBSTITUTE:
VS       0624	Celery	10
GC      0080	Cereal grains {except Rice}	*0.01
VC      0045	Fruiting vegetables, cucurbits	0.3
VO      0050	Fruiting vegetables, other than cucurbits	1
SO      0697	Peanut	*0.01
GC      0649	Rice	T7
VR       0075	Root and tuber vegetables {except Celeriac}	0.5
Pydiflumetofen
OMIT:
SO      0697	Peanut	T0.03
VR       0075	Root and tuber vegetables	T0.05
SUBSTITUTE:
SO      0697	Peanut	0.03
VR       0589	Potato	T0.05
VR       0075	Root and tuber vegetables {except Potato}	0.3

For each of the following compounds, insert in alphabetical order the associated foods and MRLs listed below:

COMPOUND	FOOD	MRL (mg/kg)
Acequinocyl
VO      0448	Tomato	T0.3
Acetamiprid
FB       2005	Cane berries	1
Mesotrione
SO      0698	Poppy seed	T*0.01
Methoxyfenozide
FI         0345	Mango	T0.5
Pyriproxyfen
FB       2005	Cane berries	1
Sulfoxaflor
FB       0020	Blueberries	T2
Tulathromycin
MF      0822	Sheep fat	*0.05
MO      1288	Sheep, kidney	0.3
MO      1289	Sheep, liver	1
Sheep muscle	0.15

2  Schedule 1, Table 4—Animal Feed Commodities

For each of the following compounds, omit the associated animal food commodities and MRLs listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated animal feed commodities and MRLs listed under 'substitute' (if any):

COMPOUND	ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY	MRL (mg/kg)
Difenoconazole
OMIT:
AS       0081	Straw and fodder (dry) of cereal grains	*0.05
SUBSTITUTE:
Peanut forage and fodder	30
Rice hulls	T20
AS       0649	Rice straw and fodder, dry	T15
AS       0081	Straw and fodder (dry) of cereal grains {except Rice straw and fodder, dry}	*0.05
Tomato pomace, dry	7

For the following compounds, insert in alphabetical order the associated animal feed commodities and MRLs listed below:

COMPOUND	ANIMAL FEED COMMODITY	MRL (mg/kg)
Azoxystrobin
Rice hulls	T20
Flumetsulam
Chicory forage	0.1
MCPB
Primary feed commodities	300
Pydiflumetofen
Peanut forage and fodder	30

3  Schedule 1, Table 5—MRLs not necessary

For each of the following substances, omit the associated uses listed under 'omit' and substitute in alphabetical order the associated uses listed under 'substitute' (if any):

SUBSTANCE	USE
OMIT:
Copper	Nutritional supplement for livestock
Iodine (elemental)	When incorporated into a polyethylene capsule device for intra-ruminal administration to sheep
SUBSTITUTE:
Copper	For use as a nutritional supplement for livestock
Iodine (elemental)	For use as a nutritional supplement for livestock
Zinc oxide	For use as a nutritional supplement for livestock