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Without prejudice to the checks carried out by Member States under national laws, regulations and administrative provisions or Article 248 of the Treaty, and any check organised under Article 279 of the Treaty, the Commission may organise on-the-spot checks with a view to verifying in particular: compliance of administrative practices with Community rules; the existence of the requisite supporting documents and their correlation with the operations financed by the EAGF or the EAFRD; the terms on which the operations financed by the EAGF or the EAFRD have been undertaken and checked. Persons delegated by the Commission to carry out on-the-spot inspections or Commission agents acting within the scope of the powers conferred upon them shall have access to the books and all other documents, including documents and metadata drawn up or received and recorded on an electronic medium, relating to expenditure financed by the EAGF or the EAFRD. The aforementioned powers of inspection shall not affect the application of national provisions which reserve certain acts for agents specifically designated by national legislation. Persons delegated by the Commission shall not take part, inter alia, in home visits or the formal questioning of persons within the framework of the national legislation of the Member State concerned. However, they shall have access to information thus obtained.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.