Article 7 Inspection

Each Member State shall take the measures necessary to ensure that a competent person or a competent authority carries out an annual inspection to check that on board all vessels flying its flag:

• the medical supplies meet the minimum requirements of this Directive;

• the checklist provided for in Article 2 (1) (c) confirms that the medical supplies comply with those minimum requirements;

• the medical supplies are correctly stored;

• any expiry dates have been respected.

Inspections of the medical supplies stored on life-rafts shall be carried out in the course of those life-rafts' annual maintenance.

Those inspections may exceptionally be postponed for up to five months.