1. A qualified person on board the factory vessel must be responsible for applying good fishery products manufacturing practices. That person shall have the authority to ensure that the provisions of these Regulations are applied and shall make available to inspectors the programme for inspecting and checking critical points as applied on board, a register containing that person’s comments and the temperature recordings that may be required.
2. The general conditions of hygiene applicable to areas and equipment shall be those laid down in Section IIA of Chapter III.
3. The general conditions of hygiene applicable to staff shall be those laid down in Section IIB of Chapter III.
4. Heading, gutting and filleting must be carried out under the conditions of hygiene laid down in paragraphs 2 to 4 of Section I of Chapter IV.
5. On-board processing of fishery products must be carried out under the conditions of hygiene laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Section II, Section IV and Section V of Chapter IV.
6. Fishery products must be wrapped and packaged under the conditions of hygiene laid down in Chapter VI.
7. On-board storage of fishery products must be carried out under the conditions of hygiene laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Chapter VIII.
8.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any on-board processing (in particular any cooking) of shrimps or molluscs must be undertaken in accordance with such of—
(a)the approved treatments set out in Commission Decision 93/25/EEC approving certain treatments to inhibit the development of pathogenic micro-organisms in bivalve molluscs and marine gastropods; and
(b)the standards and other obligations set out in Commission Decision 93/51/EEC on the microbiological criteria applicable to the production of cooked crustaceans and molluscan shellfish,
as are appropriate in the particular circumstances of the case.
(2) For the purposes of Commission Decision 93/51/EEC—
(a)the reference in article 2 to a processing plant shall be treated as if it were a reference to a factory vessel;
(b)the reference in article 3(1) to the requirements of article 6 of the Council Directive shall be treated as if it were a reference to regulation 28; and
(c)the reference to competent authorities in the first indented paragraph of article 3(2) shall be treated as a reference to the food authority which approved the factory vessel in question.