Commission Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 (repealed)Dangos y teitl llawn

Article 12 Conformity checks at the point of import

1. Before release for free circulation, products from third countries shall be checked for conformity with the marketing standards.

Importers shall provide the inspection bodies with all information those bodies judge necessary to organising and carrying out the checks mentioned in paragraph 2 and Article 16(1).

2. Without prejudice to Section 3, the official inspection body shall carry out a conformity check at the point of import for each imported lot and, where those products conform with the required standards, issue a certificate of conformity as set out in Annex III. Where the import consignment consists of several lots, the conformity of those lots may be certified on a single certificate which clearly lists the various lots constituting that consignment.

3. The customs authorities shall authorise release for free circulation only if:

(a) the goods are accompanied by the certificate referred to in paragraph 2, the certificate referred to in Article 14(1) or the certificate referred to in Article 19(2); or if

(b) the competent inspection body informed the customs authority, by appropriate means, that the relevant lots have been subject to the issuance of one of those certificates.

4. By way of derogation from paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, where the competent inspection body at the point of import considers that there is a low risk of certain lots not conforming to the marketing standards, it may choose not to check those lots. It shall send the customs authority a stamped declaration to that effect or inform that authority in another manner that it may carry out clearance procedures.

For the purposes of applying the first subparagraph, the inspection body shall lay down in advance the criteria for assessing the risk of lots not conforming and, on the basis of a risk analysis, for each type of import it has defined, the minimum proportions of consignments and quantities which will be subject to a conformity check by the competent inspection body at the import stage. Any proportion specified pursuant to this paragraph must in any case be substantially higher than the ones applied according to Article 16(1).

5. In order to improve the uniformity of application of paragraph 4 in the Member States, the Commission shall adopt common guidelines for its application. The coordinating authority shall inform the Commission forthwith of the rules for the application of paragraph 4, including the criteria and minimum proportions referred to in paragraph 4, second subparagraph and any subsequent amendment to those rules.

6. Where, on import from a third country, a lot of goods are found not to conform with the standards, the coordinating authority of the Member State concerned shall immediately notify the Commission and the coordinating authorities of the other Member States likely to be concerned, which shall then pass on this information as necessary in their territory. The Commission shall be notified via the electronic system indicated by the Commission.