Article 8

Competent authorities shall carry out official controls in accordance with documented procedures. These procedures shall contain information and instructions for staff performing official controls including, inter alia, the areas referred to in Annex II, Chapter II. Member States shall ensure that they have legal procedures in place in order to ensure that staff of the competent authorities have access to premises of and documentation kept by feed and food business operators so as to be able to accomplish their tasks properly. Competent authorities shall have procedures in place: to verity the effectiveness of official controls that they carry out; and to ensure that corrective action is taken when needed and that the documentation referred to in paragraph 1 is updated as appropriate. The Commission may establish guidelines for official controls in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 62 (2). The guidelines may, in particular, contain recommendations concerning official controls on: the implementation of HACCP principles; management systems that feed or food business operators operate with a view to meeting the requirements of feed or food law; the microbiological, physical and chemical safety of feed and food.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.