# Commission Decision of 21 May 2007 on guidelines to assist Member States in preparing the single integrated multi-annual national control plan provided for in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document number C(2007) 2099) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/363/EC), Division 3.7.2.1.2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The national control plan should describe:
(a) the official control systems applied to different sectors, in particular:
(i) the official control methods and techniques used, such as, monitoring, surveillance, verification, audit, inspection, sampling and analysis, taking account of the requirements of Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, and where and when such official control methods and techniques are used;
(ii) the frequency, or as appropriate, the criteria for determining the frequency and nature of the official controls;
(iii) the extent and operation of official controls on imports of all feed and food, animals and products of animal origin;
(b) how the risk categories referred to in Section 3.4.1 are applied to target official controls effectively;
(c) how the official control arrangements for horizontally applicable Community legislation and the specific control plans referred to in Section 3.2.2 are integrated into the official controls applicable to each relevant sector or sub-sector; where more than one sector or sub-sector is involved appropriate ‘linkages’ should be established between the different sectors or sub-sectors.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/363/annex/division/3/division/3.7/division/3.7.2/division/3.7.2.1/division/3.7.2.1.2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-363/annex/division-3/division-3.7/division-3.7.2/division-3.7.2.1/division-3.7.2.1.2
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