Commission Regulation (EC) No 1010/2009Show full title

Article 20 Verifications

1. When the holder of an APEO certificate has advised the competent Member State authority of the arrival of fishery products, that authority may, before the arrival of the consignment into that Member State, notify the approved economic operator when, as a result of a risk analysis in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2008, the consignment has been selected for further verification. That notice shall only be provided where it does not jeopardise the verification to be carried out.

2. The holder of an APEO certificate shall be subject to fewer physical and document-based verifications than other importers, unless the competent Member State authority decides otherwise in order to take into account a specific risk, or control obligations set out in other Community legislation.

3. Where, following a risk analysis, the competent Member State authority selects for further examination a consignment accompanied by a catch certificate lodged by an approved economic operator, it shall carry out the necessary verifications as a matter of priority. If the approved economic operator so requests, and subject to agreement with the competent Member State authority concerned, those verifications may be carried out at a place which is different from the place of the office of the competent Member State authority.