The Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999

Approval of establishments

6.—(1) Where an application complying with regulation 5(2) is made under paragraph (1) of that regulation, the competent body shall—

(a) check by means of an on the spot verification whether the establishment meets the applicable conditions, and

(b) process the application in accordance with the requirements of the second paragraph of Article 4.1, or the second paragraph of Article 4.2, of Directive 95/69, as the case may be.

(2) Where the competent body is satisfied that the establishment meets the applicable conditions, the competent body shall—

(a) approve the establishment as an establishment on which the establishment activity concerned may be exercised, and

(b) in accordance with Article 5.1 of Directive 95/69, as read with Articles 8 and 9 of, and the Annex to, Directive 98/51, enter the establishment on a register, which the competent body shall maintain, under an individual approval number which identifies the establishment, as an establishment approved for the exercise of that activity.