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Member States shall establish multiannual survey programmes setting out the content of the surveys to be carried out pursuant to Article 22. Those programmes shall provide for the collection and recording of the scientific and technical evidence and other information referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 22(2). The multiannual survey programmes shall include the following elements in conformity with Article 22(2): the specific objective of each survey; the scope of each survey as regards the area concerned and the time scale covered, as well as the pests, plants and commodities targeted; the survey methodology and quality management including a description of the procedures for visual examination, sampling and testing and their technical justification; the timing, frequency and numbers of scheduled visual examinations, samples and tests; and the methods of recording and reporting the information collected. The multiannual survey programmes shall be for a period of five to seven years.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.