
Article 1 
This Regulation lays down rules relating to the procedures at border control posts for a coordinated performance by competent authorities of intensified official controls on products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products and composite products entering  Great Britain, from a third country,  for placing on the market.
Article 2 
For the purposes of this Regulation—
(a) ‘the appropriate computerised information management system’ is the system for official controls referred to in Article 131 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625;
(b) ‘the establishment of origin’ means the establishment of origin in a third country, including third country vessels, appearing on lists drawn up regarding the export of products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products and composite products to Great Britain, in accordance with the legislation in force in the relevant constituent territory of Great Britain;
(b) ‘third country’ has the meaning given in Article 3(2D) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.
Article 3 

1. When notifying other competent authorities of a decision to perform intensified official controls made in accordance with Article 65(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 through the appropriate computerised information management system, the competent authority making the decision must indicate—
(a) the establishment of origin;
(b) the category of goods, including their description and code from the classification system applicable in the United Kingdom, as amended from time to time, whether established and maintained pursuant to section 8(1) of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 or under any other enactment; and
(c) the infringement which has occasioned the decision to perform intensified official controls.
2. After receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph 1, the  notified competent authorities must assess and endeavour to agree  whether the following conditions are met:
(a) the notification is based on suspected fraudulent or deceptive practices or on a potentially serious or repeated infringement of the rules referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625;
(b) the notification is related to an action or omission for which the establishment of origin of the consignment concerned is responsible;
(c) the consignment concerned is not already subject to the coordinated performance of intensified official controls in accordance with this Regulation; and
(d) the consignment concerned is not subject to emergency measures  under Article 261 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 or to special measures under  Article 128 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, for the same infringement as the one indicated in the notification referred to in paragraph 1.
3. The  notifying competent authority  shall record the outcome of its assessment referred to in paragraph 2 in the  appropriate computerised information management system.
4. Where the outcome of the assessment referred to in paragraph 2 indicates that the requisite conditions have been met, the competent authorities at the border control posts in all  constituent territories of Great Britain  shall perform coordinated intensified official controls.
Article 4 

1. The competent authorities at the border control posts in  Great Britain  shall carry out the identity and physical checks referred to in Article 49 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on each consignment coming from the same establishment of origin and containing the same category of goods, for the same type of infringement, as indicated in the  appropriate computerised information management system  in accordance with Article 3(1).
2. For the controls referred to in paragraph 1, the consignments shall be selected on the basis of the codes from the  classification system applicable in Great Britain, as amended from time to time, whether established and maintained pursuant to section 8(1) of the Taxation (Cross-border) Trade Act 2018 or under any other enactment.
3. Where these codes are not specific enough to properly identify the category of goods, the competent authorities at border control posts shall only subject consignments selected on the basis of these codes to the coordinated performance of intensified official controls if they correspond to the description of the goods indicated in accordance with Article 3(1).
4. The competent authorities shall record in the  appropriate computerised information management system  the reasons for not subjecting a selected consignment to the coordinated performance of intensified official controls in accordance with paragraph 3.
Article 5 

1. If, during the coordinated performance of intensified official controls, three consignments entering  Great Britain  reveal the same type of infringement indicated in the notification referred to in Article 3(1), the  the competent authority in the relevant constituent territory of Great Britain, or, where there is more than one competent authority dealing with the infringements, one of those authorities  shall request the competent authority of the third country, in which the establishment of origin of the non-compliant consignments is located, to:
(a) make the necessary investigations to identify the reasons for the infringements (‘imposed checks’);
(b) adopt an action plan in relation to the establishment of origin to effectively remedy the situation; and
(c) report back on the actions referred to in points (a) and (b), including the results of the action plan.
2. The competent authority making the request in accordance with paragraph 1  shall closely monitor the results of the imposed checks and the action plan and take further action, including measures in accordance with Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Article 127(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, when:
(a) the competent authority of the third country does not take appropriate action to effectively remedy the situation; or
(b) the competent authorities of the  constituent territories of Great Britain  continue to notify unsatisfactory results of the coordinated performance of intensified official controls.
Article 6 

1. The coordinated performance of intensified official controls shall end in the following cases:
(a) when a competent authority decides to withdraw its notification referred to in Article 3(1) and informs the  other competent authorities of its decision, through the appropriate computerised information management system, indicating the reasons justifying their decision; or
(b) when the following conditions are met:
((i)) an uninterrupted sequence of at least 10 satisfactory results in the coordinated performance of intensified official controls has been recorded in the  appropriate computerised information management system  by the competent authorities of the border control posts of the  constituent territories of Great Britain; and
((ii)) the total weight of the consignments referred to in point (i) reaches at least 10 times the weight of the consignment to which the notification referred to in Article 3(1) relates, or a net weight of 300 tons, whichever is the lowest.
2. However, where  a competent authority  has requested imposed checks in accordance with point (a) of Article 5(1), the coordinated performance of intensified official controls shall end when:
(a) an uninterrupted sequence of at least 30 satisfactory results in the coordinated performance of intensified official controls has been recorded in the  appropriate computerised information management system  by the competent authorities of the border control posts of the  constituent territories of Great Britain; and
(b) the competent authority of the third country has adopted a satisfactory action plan in accordance with point (b) of Article 5(1).
Article 7 
The costs of the coordinated performance of intensified official controls shall be at the expense of the operator responsible for the consignments that are subject to those controls.
Article 8 

1. The competent authorities may exclude a consignment from the coordinated performance of intensified official controls, if the consignment is to be refused entry  to Great Britain
                      in accordance with Article 66(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on grounds other than the infringement for which the coordinated intensified official controls are performed.
2. The competent authorities shall record in the  appropriate computerised information management system  the reasons for the exclusion of a consignment from the coordinated performance of intensified official controls in accordance with paragraph 1.
Article 9 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 14 December 2019.
...Done at Brussels, 7 November 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean Claude JUNCKER