Food Safety

National summary report on pesticide residues Czechia 2024

Published: 11 November 2025

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According to the Regulation (EC) No. 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin, Member States shall participate in the Community control programme to ensure compliance with maximum levels of pesticide residues in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin. The Community control programme is included in the national control programme to monitor the presence of the pesticide residues in food in the Czech Republic. The requirements of the multi-annual control plan programme are included in the control plans of official authorities (CAFIA, SVA and CISTA), competent to monitor pesticide residues in foodstuffs of plant and animal origin and feeds. The implementing requirements of the coordinated control programme of the Union are specified in applicable legislation for the year 2024, i.e. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/731.

Please find below the text of the report including the annex:

Czechia

Objective and design of the national control programme
Objective    
Design
Selection of commodities
Number of samples       
Analysed pesticide residues
Sampling           
Key findings, interpretation of the results and comparability with the previous year results 
Key findings      
Comparability with the previous year results       
Non-compliant samples: possible reasons, ARfD exceedances and actions taken 
Possible reasons for non-compliant samples       
ARfD exceedances         
Actions taken   
Quality assurance          
Processing Factors

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Source: Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority | National summary report on pesticide residues Czechia 2024