Official Controls and Other Official Activities. The Official Agency shall monitor and verify compliance with the relevant requirements of food law by food business operators in the agencies remit at any stage of production, processing, distribution and sale as agreed under this contract. Official controls and other official activities shall be carried out as appropriate, at any of the stages of production, processing, distribution and sale of food. They shall include official controls on food businesses, on the use of food, on the storage, transport and sale of food, on any process, material, article, substance, activity or operation applied to food.
Official Controls and Other Official Activities. Planned audits and inspections of food business operator’s establishments to verify compliance with food law carried out in accordance with the frequencies prescribed by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. Inspections and audits carried out in accordance with the prescribed frequencies and recorded in OAPI.
Official Controls and Other Official Activities. The Official Agency will carry out official controls and other official activities on food products of non-animal origin and animal origin as appropriate to ensure compliance by food business operators with food legislation and by agreement with the Authority. In the performance of official controls, the Official Agency shall comply with all of the relevant requirements of Regulation (EU) No. 2017/625. The Authority acknowledges that the scope of the official controls and other official activities performed by the Official Agency is limited in scope to those being carried out within the competence and expertise of the Official Agency. The Official Agency will work with the Authority to develop performance measures to ensure official controls are efficient, effective and are suitable to achieve the objectives of the relevant legislation. The Official Agency agrees to collaborate with the Authority for the purpose of ensuring efficient and effective coordination between all official agencies involved in carrying out official controls and other official activities in Ireland. The Official Agency must ensure that official control activities are carried out to a high level of transparency in accordance with article 11 of Regulation (EU) No. 2017/625. Relevant information held by the Official Agency must be made available concerning the organisation and the performance of those official controls. The Official Agency shall, at least once a year, make available to the public and the Authority relevant information concerning the organisation and the performance of those official controls. The relevant information on Official Controls may be provided, where appropriate, in the annual reports referred to in section 1.4 of Schedule 2 of the service contract. The Official Agency shall put procedures in place to ensure any inaccuracies in information made available to the public are appropriately rectified and the Authority will be advised. The Official Agency and the Authority must ensure that information acquired during official controls which by its nature is covered by ‘professional secrecy in duly justified cases’ is not disclosed to a third party. When the Official Laboratories are required by law or authorised by contractual arrangements to release confidential information, the customer or individual concerned shall, unless prohibited by law, be notified of the information provided. Where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a food may present a risk to h...
Official Controls and Other Official Activities. The Official Agency will carry out official controls and other official activities to ensure compliance by food business operators and business operators dealing with food contact materials and natural mineral waters with food Legislation and other legislation as agreed within the agencies remit under this contract. Within its area of competence, the Official Agency shall ensure that official controls and other official activities are carried out regularly, on a risk basis and with appropriate frequency, so as to achieve the objectives of this Service Contract, Section 11(2) of the Act and Articles 9 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. The Official Agency will ensure official controls are efficient, effective and are suitable to achieve the objectives of the relevant legislation. The Official Agency shall comply with the relevant requirements of Regulation (EC) No. 2017/625. Over the duration of this contract the Official Agency will work in partnership with the Authority towards implementation of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on Official Controls and Official Activities. The Official Agency will have due regard to recognised guidance notes, codes of best practice, Standard Operating Systems or accreditation systems; in addition to any advice which may be issued by the Authority as agreed between the Official Agency and the Authority.
Official Controls and Other Official Activities and The Hygiene Package
