Member States shall ensure that the competent authorities have, or have access to, a sufficient number of suitably qualified and experienced staff, in particular in areas such as chemistry, food chemistry, veterinary medicine, medicine, food microbiology, food hygiene, food technology and law so that the controls referred to in Article 5 of Directive 89/397/EEC can be carried out adequately.
Države članice zagotovijo, da imajo pristojni organi primerno število ustrezno usposobljenega in izkušenega osebja ali dostop do njega, zlasti na področjih, kot so kemija, živilska kemija, veterinarska medicina, medicina, mikrobiologija živil, higiena živil, tehnologija živil in pravo, da je mogoče ustrezno izvajati nadzor iz člena 5 Direktive 89/397/EGS.