Multiannual national control programmes for pesticide residues
Article 1
Open ↗1. Member States shall establish multiannual national control programmes for pesticide residues, as part of their respective multi-annual national control plan. They shall update their multiannual programme every year. 2. Those programmes shall be risk-based and aimed at assessing consumer exposure and compliance with Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. They shall specify at least the following: (a) the products to be sampled; (b) the number of samples to be taken and analyses to be carried out; (c) the pesticides to be analysed; (d) the criteria applied in drawing up such programmes, including: (i) the pesticide-product combinations to be selected; (ii) the number of samples taken for domestic and non-domestic products respectively; (iii) consumption of the products as a share of the national diet; (iv) the control programme of the Union; and (v) the results of previous multiannual national control programmes. 3. Member States shall participate in the multiannual Union control programme in accordance with Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.