32As regards pesticides, it must be pointed out, as observed by the Commission, that the levels mentioned by the national court are particularly low as compared with the levels allowed by the Community legislation. Thus, under Annex II to Council Directive 90/642/EEC of 27 November 1990 on the fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and on certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables (OJ 1990 L 350, p. 71), as amended by Council Directive 93/58/EEC of 29 June 1993 amending Annex II to Directive 76/895/EEC relating to the fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and on fruit and vegetables and the Annex to Directive 90/642/EEC (OJ 1993 L 211, p. 6), and by Commission Directive 98/82/EC of 27 October 1998 amending the Annexes to Council Directives 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and 90/642/EEC (OJ 1998 L 290, p. 25), the maximum level for residues present in strawberries (other than wild strawberries) is 5 mg/kg both for procymidone and for vinclozolin. However, according to the national court, the jam contains residues of 0.016 mg/kg of procymidone and 0.005 mg/kg of vinclozolin, which are, respectively, 312 and 1000 times lower than the maximum values authorised by the abovementioned legislation.
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