Whereas a Commission expert team has conducted an inspection visit to Yemen to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to Peru to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to Mauritania to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a Commission expert team has conducted an inspection visit to Panama to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

a Commission expert team has conducted an inspection visit to Pakistan to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to Chile to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to Colombia to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to South Africa to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

a Commission expert team has conducted an inspection visit to China to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to Malaysia to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to Turkey to verify the conditions under which live bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods are produced and placed on the market;

Once determined, equivalence shall be applied in relation to individual or groups of sanitary measures for live animals or animal product sectors, or parts of sectors, in relation to legislation, inspection and control systems, parts of systems, or in relation to specific legislation, inspections and/or hygiene requirements.

Whereas a group of Commission experts has conducted an inspection visit to the Ivory Coast to verify the conditions under which fishery products are produced, stored and dispatched to the Community;

However, at the time of the inspection visit there were no establishments approved in conformity with the Community legislation and the inspection team was not able to verify the inspection capacity of the competent authorities as regards the land establishments.

The Agency ’ s inspection-related working parties will: harmonise inspection procedures and processes, in particular those relating to inspections of active substances and to pharmacovigilance; develop guidelines in light of the requirements of Community legislation on clinical trials and blood; and continue to work on GMP guidelines on products used as gene and cell therapies.

'When an inspection vessel has signalled that an inspection party is about to commence boarding a fishing vessel which has begun or is about to begin hauling its nets, the master of that fishing vessel shall ensure that the net is not retrieved for a period of 30 minutes after receiving the signal.'

Representatives of the Indian authorities have participated in international efforts to agree marketing standards for fruit and vegetables within the Working Party on Standardisation of Perishable Produce and Quality Development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

In particular, the next 10 batches from the same source must be impounded - and a deposit lodged against inspection costs - at the frontier inspection post for a check on residues by taking a representative sample of each batch or of the part of the batch.

Remark: the following methods of inspection are based on the provisions of the guide for the implementation of quality control of fresh fruit and vegetables adopted by the UN/ECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) Working Party for standardisation of perishable goods and improvement of quality.

For a number of years the Swiss inspection bodies, and their supervisory authorities, have been regular participants in international efforts to agree trading standards for fruit and vegetables, such as the Working Party on Standardisation of Perishable Produce and Quality Development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the OECD Scheme for the Application of International Standards for Fruit and Vegetables.

The body and the staff responsible for the checks must carry out the checks with the greatest possible professional integrity and the greatest possible technical competence and must be free of any pressure and incentive, in particular of a financial type, which could affect their judgment or the results of their inspection, in particular from persons or groups of persons affected by the results of the checks.