Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1355 of 12 August 2021 on multiannual national control programmes for pesticides residues to be established by Member States (Text with EEA relevance)

1 Member States shall establish multiannual national control programmes for pesticide residues, as part of their respective multi-annual national control plan. They shall update their multiannual programme every year.

2 Those programmes shall be risk-based and aimed at assessing consumer exposure and compliance with Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. 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) the control programme of the Union; and (v) the results of previous multiannual national control programmes.

3 Member States shall participate in the multiannual Union control programme in accordance with Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 15 December 2022.