This Decision shall apply to fishery products imported from Indonesia and intended for human consumption.
1.Member States shall, using appropriate sampling plans and detection methods, ensure that each consignment of products covered by Article 1 undergoes necessary tests to make sure that the products concerned do not exceed the maximum levels laid down in Regulation (EC) 466/2001 for heavy metals;
Furthermore, in the case of the species belonging to the families scombridae, clupeidae, engraulidae and coryphaenidae, a test to detect the presence of histamine must be done to be sure that the levels remain below those established by Directive 91/493.
2.Member States shall submit to the Commission every three months a report of all analytical results of official controls on consignments of products covered by paragraph 1. This report shall be submitted during the month following each quarter (April, July, October, and January).
Member States shall not authorise imports into their territory or consignments to another Member State of products as referred to in Article 1 that are found to exceed maximum levels in the tests referred to in Article 2(1).
All expenditure incurred in the application of this Decision shall be charged to the consignor, the consignee or the agent of either.
Member States shall immediately inform the Commission of the measures they take to comply with this Decision.
This Decision shall be reviewed on the basis of the guarantees provided by the competent Indonesian authorities and on the basis of the results of the tests referred to in Article 2.
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 21 March 2006.
For the Commission
Markos Kyprianou
Member of the Commission