National control programmes for pesticide residues
Article 30
1. Member States shall establish multiannual national control programmes for pesticide residues. They shall update their multiannual programme every year. Those programmes shall be risk-based and aimed in particular at assessing consumer exposure and compliance with current legislation. 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 Community control programme; and (v) the results of previous control programmes. 2. Member States shall submit their updated national control programmes for pesticide residues, as mentioned in paragraph 1, to the Commission and to the Authority at least three months before the end of each calendar year. 3. Member States shall participate in the Community control programme as provided for in Article 29. They shall, on an annual basis, publish all results of national residue monitoring on the Internet. Where MRLs are exceeded, Member States may name the retailers, traders or producers concerned.