Data collection: chemical monitoring
Deadlines for 2026 Chemicals data reporting and validation
2 March 2026
Data collection framework opens for testing data transmission
1 April 2026
Data collection framework opens for the official data transmission
30 June 2026
Deadline for the complete transmission of all residue data domains datasets/data (VMPR, pesticide residues, chemical contaminants, food flavourings, and food additives)
All data to be transmitted to the EFSA DCF by 30 June 2026: data providers for all data domains in the frame of the harmonised ChemMon data collection will have until 31 August 2026 to validate (check) and accept their data in the EFSA Scientific DataWareHouse (sDWH)
31 August 2026
Deadline for data validation and data acceptance in the EFSA sDWH
1 September 2026
Closure of the data collection
No more data correction, validation and acceptance will be possible
Chemical monitoring reporting guides and documents
The Chemical monitoring reporting Guidance will be updated before the opening of data collection, expected end of February 2026.
Data reporting tools
The updated tools are published annually, before the opening of data collection, around end of March.
MS Excel based tools used for reporting chemical monitoring data (outdated; used for ChemMon 2025 data collection)
Legal limits database - used for compliance checking chemical monitoring data
Catalogues in MS Excel format
Major release of DCF Catalogues is planned every year in January. Thus, the updated version of “DCF_catalogues” file in Zenodo will be available by the end of January.
The EFSA catalogues for 2025 data reporting are available in Excel format for ease of use and reference. The catalogues are published on the EFSA Knowledge Junction (Zenodo) (an open access research data repository).
Links to the annual reports for VMPR and Pesticide residues
European Union reports on pesticide Substance used to kill or control pests, including disease-carrying organisms and undesirable insects, animals and plants residues in food: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
Pesticide residues data visualisations: 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022
European Union annual reports on Veterinary Medicinal Product Residues: 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
Veterinary Medicinal Product Residues data visualisations: 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023