CHAPTER VOFFICIAL CONTROLS, REPORTS AND SANCTIONS

SECTION 3F1Competent authority control programmes

Article 30F2Competent authority control programmes for pesticide residues

1.

F3Each 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:

  1. (i)

    the pesticide-product combinations to be selected;

  2. (ii)

    the number of samples taken for domestic and non-domestic products respectively;

  3. (iii)

    consumption of the products as a share of the national diet;

  4. (iv)

    F4any Great Britain control programme; and

  5. (v)

    the results of previous control programmes.

F52.

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.

F6Each competent authority shall participate in F7any Great Britain control programme as provided for in Article 29. F8Each competent authority shall, on an annual basis, publish all results of F9its residue monitoring on the Internet. Where MRLs are exceeded, F10a competent authority may name the retailers, traders or producers concerned.