MRL review progress under Article 12
To allow stakeholders to better prepare and support the MRL review, EFSA updates on a quarterly basis its Overview of the MRL review progress under Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005.
In all EFSA’s MRL assessments, chronic (long-term) and acute (short-term) dietary consumer exposure Concentration or amount of a particular substance that is taken in by an individual, population or ecosystem in a specific frequency over a certain amount of time to pesticide residues are estimated using a calculation model developed by EFSA ( PRIMo – Pesticide Residue Intake Model ). The model is based on national food consumption data and unit weights provided by Member States and implements internationally agreed risk assessment A specialised field of applied science that involves reviewing scientific data and studies in order to evaluate risks associated with certain hazards. It involves four steps: hazard identification, hazard characterisation, exposure assessment and risk characterisation methodologies.
The outcome of EFSA’s MRL assessments are presented as reasoned opinions and published in the EFSA Journal.
All the relevant work instructions are available here. The templates for the different tasks during the process are listed below:
Collection of data
STEP 2: GAPs collection
Template for GAPs reporting form
STEP 3: identification of cGAP
Template of the GAP overview file
Video Tutorial on the use of the new GAP overview file
STEP 4: data collection
Template for MSs Evaluation Report
Template for EURLs evaluation report
STEP 5: ER and PROFile
Template for RMS evaluation report
Finalisation and agreement on the reasoned opinion
STEP 8: Member States consultation