Article 5U.K.Operations to be carried out after documentary checks, identity checks and physical checks
1.After completion of the checks provided for in Article 49(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, the competent authority shall:
(a)close and identify with an official mark the packages which it has opened for the purpose of identity checks or physical checks;
(b)in the cases required by Union legislation, seal the means of transport and enter the seal number in the CHED.
2.The competent authorities shall record in the CHED all the results of laboratory analyses, tests or diagnoses, as soon as they are available, of consignments which have been tested and placed on the market before laboratory test results are available.
3.The original official certificates or documents, or electronic equivalents, referred to in Article 50(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 shall be kept by the competent authority of the border control post of arrival into the Union for at least three years from the date on which the consignments were authorised to enter the Union.
However, the original certificate or documents for the plants, plant products and other objects referred to in point (c) of Article 47(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 may be kept by means of electronic storage of information provided that such information is generated by the competent authority on the basis of the original certificate or documents. In such cases, the original certificate or document shall be invalidated or destroyed by the competent authority.
4.Where the rules referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 do not require original certificates or documents to be presented to, and kept by, the competent authority, a copy of the original official certificate or documents referred to in Article 50(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 shall be kept by the competent authority of the border control post of arrival into the Union for at least three years from the date on which the consignments were authorised to enter the Union or for onward travel in paper or electronic format.