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Competent authorities shall perform official controls on all operators regularly, on a risk basis and with appropriate frequency, taking account of: identified risks associated with: animals and goods; the activities under the control of operators; the location of the activities or operations of operators; the use of products, processes, materials or substances that may influence food safety, integrity and wholesomeness, or feed safety, animal health or animal welfare, plant health or, in the case of GMOs and plant protection products, that may also have an adverse impact on the environment; any information indicating the likelihood that consumers might be misled, in particular as to the nature, identity, properties, composition, quantity, durability, country of origin or place of provenance, method of manufacture or production of food; operators’ past record as regards the outcome of official controls performed on them and their compliance with the rules referred to in Article 1(2); the reliability and results of own controls that have been performed by the operators, or by a third party at their request, including, where appropriate, private quality assurance schemes, for the purpose of ascertaining compliance with the rules referred to in Article 1(2); and any information that might indicate non-compliance with the rules referred to in Article 1(2).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.