Commission Regulation (EC) No 2729/2000 (repealed)Show full title

TITLE I U.K. CHECKS BY THE MEMBER STATES

Article 2 U.K. Principles

1. The Member States shall take the measures required to check compliance with Community rules governing the wine sector and the national rules for applying them.

2. The Member States shall carry out administrative and on-the-spot checks so as to ensure efficient verification of compliance with the required conditions.

3. In line with the nature of the support measure concerned, Member States shall define methods and means for verification and specify who shall be subject to checks.

4. Controls shall be carried out either systematically or by sampling. In the case of sampling, Member States shall ensure that by their number, nature and frequency controls are representative of the whole of their territory and correspond to the volume of wine-sector products marketed or held with a view to their marketing.

Article 3 U.K. Control bodies

1. Where a Member State designates several competent bodies to check compliance with the rules governing the wine sector, it shall coordinate the work of those bodies.

2. Each Member State shall designate a single liaison body responsible for contacts with the liaison bodies of other Member States and with the Commission. In particular, the liaison body shall receive and forward requests for cooperation with a view to implementing this Title, and shall represent its Member State vis-à-vis other Member States or the Commission.

3. The Commission shall see that information notified to it by the Member States pursuant to Article 72(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 is distributed regularly in appropriate form.

Article 4 U.K. Powers of control officials

Each Member State shall take all appropriate measures to facilitate the work of the officials of its competent bodies. It shall ensure in particular that such officials, where appropriate in conjunction with officials of other departments which it authorises for the purpose:

• have access to vineyards, wine-making and storage installations, installations for processing wine-sector products and vehicles for transporting those products,

• have access to the commercial premises (or warehouses) and vehicles of anyone holding with a view to sale, marketing or transporting wine-sector products or products which may be intended for use in the wine sector,

• may undertake an inventory of wine-sector products and substances or products which may be used for the preparation of such products,

• may take samples of wine-sector products, substances or products which may be used for the preparation of such products and products held with a view to sale, marketing or transport,

• may study accounting data and other documents of use in control procedures, and make copies or extracts thereof,

• may take appropriate protective measures regarding the preparation, holding, transport, description, presentation and marketing of a wine-sector product or a product intended for use in the preparation of such a product, if there is reason to believe that there has been a serious infringement of Community provisions, in particular in the case of fraudulent treatment or risks to health.

Article 5 U.K. Production potential

1. For the purpose of compliance with the provisions on production potential laid down in Title II of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 Member States shall make use of the vineyard register or reference charts, as applicable, in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86(1).

Permanent abandonment and restructuring and conversion receiving a contribution from the Community shall be systematically verified on the spot. The plots checked shall be those which are the subject of an application for aid.

2. Compliance with the prohibition on new planting laid down in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 shall be verified by means of the reference chart drawn up in accordance with Article 4(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86.

The Member States where no reference chart is available shall notify the Commission before 1 January 2001 of the measures introduced to ensure compliance with the prohibition on new planting.

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OJ L 208, 31.7.1986, p. 1.