Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 884/2014 (repealed)Show full title

Article 9 U.K. Official controls

1. All official controls before the completion of the CED shall be performed within 15 working days from the moment the consignment is offered for import and physically available for sampling at the DPI.

2. Consignments of the feed and food can only enter the Union through the DPE. The competent authority at the DPE shall carry out documentary checks on each consignment of the feed and food intended for import into the Union to ascertain compliance with the requirements laid down in Articles 4 and 5.

For the purpose of this Regulation, Points of Entry can be designated which are only authorised to perform the documentary checks. In that case these DPE have not to comply with the minimum requirements as provided for in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 669/2009.

3. Where a consignment of feed and food is not accompanied by the results of sampling and analysis and the health certificate or where the results of sampling and analysis or the health certificate do not comply with the provisions of the Regulation, the consignment may not enter the Union for import into the Union and must be re-dispatched to the country of origin or destroyed.

4. [F1 The customs authorities shall authorise the transfer of the consignment to a DPI after favourable completion of the checks referred to in paragraph 2 and the relevant entries of part II of the CED (II.3, II.5, II.8 and II.9) are completed and subject to the physical or electronic presentation of a completed CED by the feed and food business operator or their representative to the customs authorities.] The original certificate, results of sampling and analysis referred to in article 4 and the CED shall accompany the consignment during transfer. The competent authority of the DPE shall immediately inform the competent authority at the DPI of the sending of the consignment and the business operator has to inform the competent authority at the DPI of the arrival of the consignment at least one working day prior to the physical arrival of the consignment. In case the business operator decides to change the DPI after the consignment has left the DPE, the documents have to be presented again to the competent authority of the DPE to agree and to perform the necessary changes on the CED and the competent authority of the DPE informs consequently the relevant DPIs of these changes.

5. The competent authority at the DPI shall carry out an identity check and a physical check by taking a sample for analysis of aflatoxin B1 for feed or aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxin contamination for food on certain consignments at a frequency set out in Annex I to this Regulation before acceptance for release for free circulation into the Union. The sampling is carried out for feed in accordance with Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 152/2009 and for food in accordance with Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 401/2006.

6. After completion of the checks, the competent authorities shall, for checks carried out by them,

(a) complete the relevant entries of Part II of the CED;

(b) join the results of sampling and analysis carried out;

(c) provide and fill the CED reference number on the CED;

(d) stamp and sign the original of the CED;

(e) make and retain a copy of the signed and stamped CED.

For the completion of the CED in application of this Regulation, the competent authority shall take into account the notes for guidance laid down in Annex III.

7. The original of the health certificate referred to in Article 5, the results of sampling and analysis referred to in Article 4 and the CED shall accompany the consignment during its transfer until it is released for free circulation.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2106 of 1 December 2016 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 884/2014 imposing special conditions governing the import of spices from Ethiopia, groundnuts from Argentina and hazelnuts from Azerbaijan and amending the special conditions governing the import of dried figs and hazelnuts from Turkey and groundnuts from India (Text with EEA relevance).