CHAPTER XOfficial controls and other official activities, administrative assistance, cooperation and enforcement by Member States

Article 45Written records of official controls

1

Competent authorities shall draw up written records of every official control that they perform.

Those written records shall contain:

a

a description of the purpose of the official control;

b

the control methods applied;

c

the results of the official control;

d

where appropriate, action that the competent authorities require the operators to take as a result of the official control.

2

Unless the purposes of judicial investigations or the protection of court proceedings require otherwise, competent authorities shall provide the operators which have been subject to an official control with a copy of the written records referred to in paragraph 1.