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Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC Text with EEA relevance. · European Union

Member States shall establish multiannual national control programmes for pesticide residues. They shall update their 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: the products to be sampled; the number of samples to be taken and analyses to be carried out; the pesticides to be analysed; the criteria applied in drawing up such programmes, including: the pesticide-product combinations to be selected; the number of samples taken for domestic and non-domestic products respectively; consumption of the products as a share of the national diet; the Community control programme; and the results of previous control programmes.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-30 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.