PART 5Enforcement of Regulation 767/2009

Competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation 767/200913

1

DARD is the competent authority for the purposes of —

a

Article 5(3), 13(1)(a) and 17(3) and Annex VII, Chapter 1, paragraph 8; and

b

Article 13(1)(b) as the competent authority that may request scientific substantiation of the claim to whose attention purchasers have the right to bring doubts regarding the truthfulness of a claim.

2

The Agency is the competent authority for the purposes of —

a

Article 26(1)(b); and

b

Article 13(1)(b) as the competent authority that may submit to the Commission doubts concerning the scientific substantiation of a claim.

3

The Agency and DARD is a competent authority for the purposes of Article 5(2).