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The multi-annual national control plans referred to in Article 41 shall take account of guidelines to be drawn up by the Commission in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 62(2). These guidelines shall in particular: promote a consistent, comprehensive and integrated approach to official controls of feed and food, animal health and animal welfare legislation, and embrace all sectors and all stages of the feed and food chain, including import and introduction; identify risk-based priorities and criteria for the risk categorisation of the activities concerned and the most effective control procedures; identify other priorities and the most effective control procedures; identify the stages of production, processing and distribution of feed and food, including the use of feed, which will provide the most reliable and indicative information about compliance with feed and food law; encourage the adoption of best practices at all levels of the control system; encourage the development of effective controls on traceability systems; provide advice on the development of systems to record the performance and results of control actions; reflect relevant international bodies' standards and recommendations regarding the organisation and operation of official services; lay down criteria for the conduct of the audits referred to in Article 4(6); lay down the structure of, and information to be included in, the annual reports required in Article 44; indicate the main performance indicators to be applied in assessing multi-annual national control plans.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.