S.L. 437.58 Art. 7Initial plan.

The initial plan shall take into account the specific situation of Malta and specify in particular:

(a) legislation on the use of the substances listed in Schedule I and, in particular, provisions on their prohibition or authorization, distribution and placing on the market and the rules governing their administration, in so far as such legislation is not harmonized;

(b) the infrastructure of the relevant departments (in particular, giving details of the type and size of the bodies involved in implementing the plans);

(c) a list of approved laboratories with details of their capacity for processing samples;

(d) national tolerances for authorized substances where no maximum Community residue levels have been set under Regulation (EEC) No 2377/90 and Directive 86/ 363/EEC;

(e) a list of the substances to be detected, methods of analysis, standards for interpreting the findings and, in the case of the substances listed in Schedule I, the number of samples to be taken, giving reasons for this number;

(f) the number of official samples to be taken in relation to the number of animals of the species concerned slaughtered in preceding years in accordance with the sampling levels and frequencies laid down in Schedule IV;

(g) details of the rules governing the collection of official samples, and in particular the rules concerning the particulars to appear on such official samples;

(h) the type of measures laid down by the competent authorities with regard to animals or products in which residues have been detected.