Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 884/2014 (repealed)Show full title

Article 8 U.K. Designated points of import (DPI)

The competent authorities in Member States shall ensure that the DPI complies with following requirements:

(a)

the presence of trained staff to perform official controls on consignments of feed and food;

(b)

the availability of detailed instructions regarding sampling and the sending of the samples to the laboratory, in accordance with provisions in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 for feed and in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 401/2006 for food;

(c)

the possibility to perform the unloading and the sampling in a sheltered place at the designated point of import; it must be possible to place the consignment of the feed and food under the official control of the competent authority from the DPI onwards in cases where, after agreement by the competent authority, the consignment has to be transported to a place in the immediate neighbourhood of the DPI in order to perform the sampling;

(d)

the availability of storage rooms, warehouses to store detained consignments of feed and food in good conditions while awaiting the results of analysis;

(e)

the availability of unloading equipment and appropriate sampling equipment;

(f)

the availability of an official laboratory for aflatoxin analysis, situated at a place to which the samples can be transported within a short period of time and which is able to perform the analysis within a due time-limit.

The Member States shall maintain and make publicly available an up-to-date list of the DPIs. The Member States shall communicate them to the Commission.

The Commission shall display the national links to those lists on the Commission's website, for information purposes.

Feed and food business operators shall ensure the unloading of the consignment of feed and food necessary for representative sampling to take place.

In the case of special transport or specific packaging forms, the operator shall make available to the official inspector the appropriate sampling equipment insofar as the sampling cannot be representatively performed with the usual sampling equipment.