June 10 and 11, 2026, the ANSES-Fougeres Laboratory organized its workshop to the attention of the network of NRLs from the 27 Member States of the Union, celebrating the 30^th edition of this annual event held since 1994.

The workshop welcomed 33 participants representing most of the NRLs of the EU Member States as well as the official laboratories of certain candidate countries (Albania, Montenegro, and Serbia this year), one country from the EFTA zone (Switzerland), and one country associated with the EU (Northern Ireland). These sessions provided the network with another opportunity for useful and interactive dialogue with the Commission and with the EFSA IDATA team and presenting regulatory developments at the European level: the one for validating the analytical performance of the official control methods (CIR 2021/808) and those implemented now for the 3rd year regarding the 3 levels of control and surveillance plans in accordance with CDR (EU) 2022/1644 and CIR (EU) 2022/1646, pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2017/625. These 2 days of presentations and discussions also provided an opportunity to further explore 2 current topics within the European VMP residue framework, i.e. the analytical performance of nitrofuran controls in honey, on the one hand, and new approaches to monitoring exposure to medicinal chemicals using high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS/MS) detection/confirmation technologies, on the other hand. A special thank you to our EU-NRL attendees and to both our scientific and logistic teams, who organized this key event in our European activities with adequateness and enthusiasm.