15.—(1) When an enforcing officer enters premises for the purposes of executing and enforcing official controls that officer may take with him or her a Commission expert to enable that expert to carry out functions under Article 45 of Regulation 882/2004.
(2) In paragraph (1) and in paragraph (5)(b) of regulation 17 “enforcing officer” means an authorised officer of any authority which is responsible for executing and enforcing official controls for the verification of compliance with relevant feed law or relevant food law.