Article 7
United Kingdom
1.
The intervention agencies in the Member States in which the alcohol put up for sale is stored shall carry out appropriate checks to verify the nature of the alcohol at the time of end-use. To that end, they may:
(a)
apply Article 102 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 mutatis mutandis;
(b)
carry out checks on samples using nuclear magnetic resonance analysis to verify the nature of the alcohol at the time of end-use.
2.
The costs of the checks referred to in paragraph 1 shall be borne by the firms to which the alcohol is sold.