Division 3.1.2.1 Scope of the national control plans

National control plans should cover the full legislative scope of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, including plant health, in so far as provided for in Article 27a of Directive 2000/29/EC. It should be noted that with regard to feed and food law and animal health and animal welfare legislation, national control plans are required to cover all official controls relating to all relevant Community legislation and not just those relating to feed and food hygiene and safety.

Therefore with regard to official controls on feed and food, the national control plans should cover all feed and food law including, for example, feed and food hygiene, materials in contact with food, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), irradiation^f1, quality and compositional requirements of feed and food law, labelling, nutritional aspects, organic farming, agricultural products and foodstuffs as traditional specialities guaranteed^f2 and protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs^f3. In relation to animal health, all diseases and issues regulated by Community law should also be included.

The national control plans should cover all relevant commodities: food, feed, and non-food commodities of both animal and non-animal origin, including animal by-products, and all production stages, (including, as applicable, importation, primary production, processing, manufacture up to and including storage, transport, distribution and sale or supply to the final consumer). With regard to plant health, all controls required under Directive 2000/29/EC should be included in the national control plans.

See Section 5 for further clarification on the scope of the national control plans.