Annexes to COM(2007)157 - EC position concerning the amendment of Protocol 4 to the Agreement with the Government of Denmark and the Home Government of the Faroe Islands

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX I

Conduct of the controls of the compounding of fish feed

Article 1

Færoe authorities shall communicate to the Commission the control provisions they have adopted as regards Articles 1 and 2 of this decision. Færoe authorities shall make available to the Commission all information necessary for the control of the gluten content of fish feed exported to the EU and shall take all appropriate measures to facilitate the checks the Commission deems appropriate in this connection.

Article 2

The European Community may proceed with controls of fish feed compound in the Færoe Islands. Fish feed undertakings shall give immediate access to their factories and to their stock records in order to allow inspectors to trace the raw materials that have been used. Inspectors shall be allowed to take samples for analysis.

Inspectors shall be entitled to control the compounding of fish feed, the raw and processed materials, and the books and other documents, including documents and metadata drawn up or received or recorded on an electronic medium, relating to stock records.

Article 3

Inspections shall be carried out by experts of the Commission or of the Member States, herein referred to as the “inspectors”. The experts from the Member States who are to be entrusted with the task of carrying out these inspections shall be appointed by the Commission.

Article 4

Those inspections shall be made on behalf of the Community, which shall bear the expenditure incurred by their inspectors.

Inspectors shall inform Færoe authorities of an inspection so that Færoe agents may take part in such inspections.

Article 5

Detailed arrangements on the way the controls are carried out may be conducted directly by the Commission with Færoe authorities.’