In the context of the application of Titles II and III, the specific officials of the Commission or the officials of a competent body of a Member State may request a competent body of another Member State to collect samples in accordance with the relevant provisions of that Member State.

The applicant body shall hold the samples collected and shall determine inter alia the laboratory where they are to be analysed.

Samples shall be taken and treated in accordance with the instructions in Annex IV.

The costs incurred in taking, treating and dispatching a sample and in carrying out analytical and organoleptic tests shall be borne by the competent body of the Member State which asked for the sample to be taken. Such costs shall be calculated according to the rates applicable in the Member State in the territory of which the operations are carried out.

The costs incurred in sending the samples referred to in Article 12 to the JRC or to another laboratory designated by the JRC for analysis by isotopic methods shall be borne by the Community.

For Member States which do not have a laboratory equipped for wine analysis by isotopic methods, the costs incurred in sending all the samples to be taken under Article 14(1) to the JRC shall be borne by the Community.