{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-396/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-396/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2005/396",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-396",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "MRLs applicable to processed and/or composite products",
  "text": "1. Where MRLs are not set out in Part 2 or 3 of the MRLs register in relation to a constituent territory for processed and/or composite food or feed, the MRLs applicable shall be those provided in Article 18(1) for the relevant product listed in Part 1 of the MRLs register in relation to that constituent territory, taking into account changes in the levels of pesticide residues caused by processing and/or mixing.\n2. A competent authority may, in relation to its constituent territory—\n(a) specify concentration factors or dilution factors for—\n(i) specified processing or mixing operations, or\n(ii) specified processed or composite products;\n(b) modify or withdraw any such factors.\n3. As soon as reasonably practicable after specifying, modifying or withdrawing concentration or dilution factors in accordance with paragraph 2 the competent authority must—\n(a) notify the other competent authorities of the specifying, modifying or withdrawing of the factors and the reason for that decision, and\n(b) update Part 6 of the MRLs register accordingly.\n4. The Secretary of State may specify, modify or withdraw concentration or dilution factors in accordance with paragraph 2 instead of a competent authority—\n(a) in relation to Wales, with the consent of the Welsh Ministers;\n(b) in relation to Scotland, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers.\n5. Where the Secretary of State specifies, modifies or withdraws concentration or dilution factors in accordance with paragraph 4, a reference in paragraph 3 to the competent authority is to be read as a reference to the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/557), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 20(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/557), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 20(2)-(5) substituted for Art. 20(2) (31.12.2020) by The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/557), regs. 1(1), 5(5)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1376, regs. 1(4), 6(4)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/396/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:54:46.831019+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}