{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-546/annex/part-I/division-B/division-2/division-2.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-546/annex/part-I/division-B/division-2/division-2.6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2011/546",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 546/2011 of 10 June 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards uniform principles for evaluation and authorisation of plant protection products (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-546",
  "path": "annex/part/I/division/B/division/2/division/2.6",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2.6",
  "heading": "Analytical methods",
  "text": "Competent authorities shall evaluate the analytical methods proposed for post-registration control and monitoring purposes, to determine:\n2.6.1.for formulation analysis:\nthe nature and quantity of the active substance(s) in the plant protection product and, where appropriate, any toxicologically, ecotoxicologically or environmentally significant impurities and co-formulants.\nThis evaluation shall take into consideration the following information:\n(i)the data on analytical methods as provided for in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 544/2011 and the results of the evaluation thereof;\n(ii)the data on analytical methods as provided for in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 545/2011 and in particular:\nthe specificity and linearity of the proposed methods,\nthe importance of interferences,\nthe precision of the proposed methods (intralaboratory repeatability and interlaboratory reproducibility);\n(iii)the limit of detection and determination of the proposed methods for impurities.\n2.6.2.for residue analysis:\nthe residues of the active substance, metabolites, breakdown or reaction products resulting from authorised uses of the plant protection product and which are of toxicological, ecotoxicological or environmental significance.\nThis evaluation shall take into consideration the following information:\n(i)the data on analytical methods as provided for in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 544/2011 and the results of the evaluation thereof;\n(ii)the data on analytical methods as provided for in the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 545/2011 and in particular:\nthe specificity of the proposed methods,\nthe precision of the proposed methods (intralaboratory repeatability and interlaboratory reproducibility),\nthe recovery rate of the proposed methods at appropriate concentrations;\n(iii)the limit of detection of the proposed methods;\n(iv)the limit of determination of the proposed methods.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex Pt. 1.B points 2.5.2.1, 2.5.2.2, 2.5.2.3, 2.5.2.4, 2.5.2.5, 2.5.2.6, 2.6, 2.7.1, 2.7.2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 18(8)(b)(xix); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/546/annex/part/I/division/B/division/2/division/2.6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:05.430430+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."
}