TITLE IVU.K.ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION

Article 106U.K.Assistance in the event of non-compliance creating a risk or a repeated or potentially serious infringement

1.Where, during official controls performed on animals or goods originating in [F1another constituent territory of the British Islands], the competent authorities establish that such animals or goods do not comply with the rules referred to in Article 1(2) in such a way as to create a risk to human, animal or plant health, animal welfare or, as regards GMOs and plant protection products, also to the environment, or to constitute a potentially serious infringement of those rules, they shall, without delay, notify the competent authorities of the [F2constituent territory of the British Islands from which the animals or goods were dispatched] and of any other [F3constituent territory concerned] in order to enable those competent authorities to undertake appropriate investigations.

2.The notified competent authorities shall without delay:

(a)acknowledge receipt of the notification;

(b)where the notifying competent authority so specifies, indicate what investigations they intend to carry out; and

(c)investigate the matter, take all necessary measures and inform the notifying competent authorities of the nature of the investigations and official controls performed, of the decisions taken and of the reasons for such decisions.

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