# 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), Article 30: Competent authority control programmes for pesticide residues

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

1. Each competent authority must establish multiannual control programmes for pesticide residues in its constituent territory, and must update its 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)any Great Britain control programme; and
(v)the results of previous control programmes.
2. A competent authority must submit its proposed updated control programme to the other competent authorities at least three months before the end of each calendar year.
3. Each competent authority shall participate in any Great Britain control programme as provided for in Article 29. Each competent authority shall, on an annual basis, publish all results of its residue monitoring on the Internet. Where MRLs are exceeded, a competent authority may name the retailers, traders or producers concerned.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/396/article/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-396/article-30
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