Effective enforcement through targeted additional technical roadside inspection is an important cost-effective measure to control the standard of maintenance of commercial vehicles on the road.

The method of inspection selection should be based on a targeted approach, giving greatest effort to identifying vehicles that seem most likely to be poorly maintained and thereby enhancing the authorities' operational effectiveness and minimising the costs and delays to drivers and operators.

It is necessary to undertake targeted inspections in order to verify compliance with this Directive.

Furthermore, it will allow for targeted inspections at sea and retrospective controls of the zones declared in the fishing log.

In addition to the complete annual visit, the inspection body or authority must make targeted visits based on a general evaluation of the potential risks of non-compliance with this Regulation;

When drawing up operational surveillance and inspection programmes the Commission shall ensure that, where, at any time, more than 10 Community fishing vessels are engaged in fishing activities targeted at regulated resources in the Regulatory Area, an inspection vessel from a Member State is present in the area or that an agreement has been concluded with another Contracting Party to ensure the presence of an inspection vessel.