Article 2 Detailed rules for documentary checks
1. For each consignment of animals and goods referred to in Article 1, the competent authority shall ascertain the use to which the animals and goods are assigned pursuant to the official certificates, official attestations and other documents accompanying the consignment as well as the destination of the consignment indicated in these certificates, attestations and documents.
2. The competent authority shall inspect all official certificates, official attestations and other documents referred to in point (41) of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 or their electronic equivalents submitted in the information management system for official controls ... referred to in Article 131 of that Regulation or via existing national systems in order to ascertain that:
(a) they are issued by the competent authority of the third country, where applicable;
(b) they fulfil the requirements set out in Articles 89(1) and 91(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and in the the rules contained in implementing acts, in regulations made by the appropriate authority or published online by the appropriate authority, referred to in Article 90 of that Regulation;
Words in Art. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 37(2)(b) (with reg. 46)
(c) they correspond to the model established by the rules referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625;
(d) the information contained in the certificates or documents complies with the rules referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625
Word in Art. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 37(2)(a) (with reg. 46)
3. The competent authority shall check that the operator responsible for the consignment completed the relevant part of the Common Health Entry Document (CHED) fully and correctly as required by Article 56(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and that the information in it corresponds to the information provided in the official certificates, official attestations and other documents accompanying the consignment.