Division 2.5.2.1 Non-viable residues

F1Competent authorities shall evaluate the analytical methods proposed to identify and quantify the toxicologically, ecotoxicologically or environmentally significant non-viable residues resulting from the micro-organism (including eventually resulting breakdown and/or reaction products thereof).

This evaluation shall take into consideration the information on analytical methods provided for in part B of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 544/2011 and in part B of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 545/2011 and the results of the evaluation thereof. In particular, the following information must be taken into account:

1. (a)

   the specificity and linearity of the proposed methods;

2. (b)

   the precision (repeatability) of the proposed methods;

3. (c)

   the reproducibility (independent laboratory validation) of the proposed methods;

4. (d)

   the importance of interferences;

5. (e)

   the accuracy of the proposed methods at appropriate concentrations;

6. (f)

   the limit of quantification of the proposed methods.