TITLE IIU.K.COMMUNITY CONTROL STRUCTURE
Article 6U.K.The Commission's body of specific officials
1.The Commission's body of specific officials set up under Article 72(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 may help with checks organised by the competent bodies in the Member States.
Checks shall be carried out in accordance with Article 9(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999(1).
The Commission may request the Member States:
to provide information on their planned checks,
to carry out checks with the aid of its specific officials.
The officials of the Member States shall at all times be in charge of carrying out the control operations referred to in the first and second subparagraphs.
2.In carrying out their duties, the Commission's specific officials shall have the rights and powers set out in the first, second, third and fifth indents of Article 4 without prejudice to the limits imposed by the Member States on their own officials in carrying out the controls concerned.
The Commission's specific officials shall, in the course of checks, adopt an attitude compatible with the rules and professional practices which officials of the relevant Member State must follow. They shall observe professional confidentiality.
3.After the execution of each control operation, the Commission shall forward a communication on the work of its specific officials to the liaison body of the Member State concerned; that communication shall record any difficulties encountered and infringements of the provisions in force that were found.