# The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Integrated Administration and Control System) Regulations 2005, Regulation 10: Powers of authorised persons


(1) An authorised person may at any reasonable time and on producing, if so required, some duly authenticated document showing his authority, exercise the right of entry specified in paragraph (2) and the further rights specified in paragraph (3) for the purposes of—
(a) carrying out any specified control measure; or
(b) ascertaining whether an offence under these Regulations has been or is being committed; or
(c) administering and enforcing these Regulations, the Council Regulation, Commission Regulation 796/2004 and Commission Regulation 1973/2004.
(2) The right of entry is a right to enter land, other than any building used only as a dwelling, which the authorised person reasonably believes to be—
(a) a holding occupied by, or in the possession of, a farmer or any employee, agent, contractor or tenant of the farmer;
(b) premises of a collector or processor who has purchased raw materials grown on land set aside for the production of non food crops; or
(c) premises of a processor who has undertaken processing of agricultural raw materials with a view to obtaining one or more of the products referred to in the second paragraph of Article 88 of the Council Regulation.
(3) The further rights are rights to—
(a) carry out any inquiries, checks, examinations and tests;
(b) take samples;
(c) inspect all or any part of the land whether it is farmed or is withdrawn from agricultural production, including land set aside pursuant to Articles 54 and 55(b) of the Council Regulation;
(d) inspect raw materials produced on–
(i) land set aside pursuant to Article 55(b) of the Council Regulation; or
(ii) areas covered by aid provided for in Article 88 of the Council Regulation;
and the products produced from such raw material;
(e) inspect any crops growing on the land or kept on it;
(f) mark any animal or other thing for identification purposes;
(g) have access to, inspect and copy any records (in whatever form they are held) or remove such records to enable them to be copied;
(h) have access to, inspect and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been in use in connection with the records; and for this purpose require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer, apparatus or material to afford him such assistance as he may reasonably expect and, where a record is kept by means of a computer, require the records to be produced in a form in which they can be taken away.
(4) An authorised person entering any premises by virtue of this regulation may take with him–
(a) such other persons as he considers necessary to exercise the rights specified in paragraphs (2) and (3); and
(b) any representative of the European Commission acting for the purpose of Article 27 of the Council Regulation.
(5) If an authorised person enters any unoccupied premises he shall leave them at least as effectively secured against unauthorised entry as he found them.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/218/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-single-payment-and-support-schemes-integrated-administration-and-control-system-regulations-2005/regulation-10
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