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The Community reference laboratory shall be responsible, in particular, for: reception, preparation, storage, maintenance and distribution to national reference laboratories of the appropriate positive and negative control samples, testing and validation of the method for detection, including sampling and identification of the transformation event and, where applicable, for the detection and identification of the transformation event in the food or feed, evaluating the data provided by the applicant for authorisation for placing the food or feed on the market, for the purpose of testing and validation of the method for sampling and detection, submitting full evaluation reports to the Authority.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.