{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-180/article-16",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/180",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 180/2014 of 20 February 2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-180",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Checks",
  "text": "1. The administrative checks carried out on the import, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall be exhaustive and shall involve cross-checks with the documents referred to in Article 8(1).\n2. The physical checks carried out in the outermost region concerned on the import or entry of agricultural products shall involve a representative sample amounting to at least 5 % of the licences and certificates presented in accordance with Article 9.\nThe physical checks carried out in the outermost region concerned on the export or dispatch provided for in Section 5 shall involve a representative sample of at least 5 % of the operations, based on the risk profiles established by the Member States.\nCommission Regulation (EC) No 1276/2008 shall apply mutatis mutandis to those physical checks.\nIn addition, in special cases the Commission may request that physical checks cover different percentages.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/920 of 28 June 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 180/2014 as regards certain provisions on checks, notifications and annual reporting and on amendments to the POSEI programmes."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1276/2008 of 17 December 2008 on the monitoring by physical checks of exports of agricultural products receiving refunds or other amounts ( OJ L 339, 18.12.2008, p. 53 )."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/180/article/16",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}