CHAPTER X

Official controls and other official activities, administrative assistance, cooperation and enforcement by Member States

Written records of official controls
Article 45
1
Competent authorities shall draw up written records of every official control that they perform.
Those written records shall contain:
a
a description of the purpose of the official control;
b
the control methods applied;
c
the results of the official control;
d
where appropriate, action that the competent authorities require the operators to take as a result of the official control.
2
Unless the purposes of judicial investigations or the protection of court proceedings require otherwise, competent authorities shall provide the operators which have been subject to an official control with a copy of the written records referred to in paragraph 1.