Commission Regulation (EC) No 1276/2008Show full title

CHAPTER V U.K. RISK MANAGEMENT

Article 11 U.K. Risk analysis

1. The selection for physical checks and for substitution checks shall be based on a risk management system.

2. Member States shall carry out a risk analysis to enable the physical checks to be targeted on those products, individuals and legal entities and product sectors where there is the greatest risk that the operations referred to in Article 1 are not correctly carried out.

3. Without prejudice to Article 592e of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, Member States shall set up their risk analysis taking into account the present Regulation and the criteria set out in Annex II, as appropriate.

4. The Member States and the Commission shall jointly assess the reliability and relevance of the criteria set out in Annex II on the basis of experience acquired in order to make, where necessary, adjustments to the system and selection parameters to make physical and substitution checks more effective and improve targeting.

5. The Member States shall notify the Commission of:

[F1 (a) the measures taken, including instructions to national departments, to apply the selection system on the basis of risk analysis, in the light of the criteria referred to in Annex II;]

(b) the checking rates to be applied as set out in Article 6;

(c) individual cases which could be of interest to the other Member States.

Member States to which point (a) of the third paragraph of Article 18 applies shall notify the Commission by 1 July 2009.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 611/2009 of 10 July 2009 correcting Regulation (EC) No 1276/2008 on the monitoring by physical checks of exports of agricultural products receiving refunds or other amounts.