Article 63 Supervision of quarantine stations and confinement facilities and revocation of designation

The competent F1authorities shall regularly inspect the quarantine stations and confinement facilities F2which they have designated to verify whether they meet the requirements set out in Article 61 and the operation conditions set out in Article 62.

F3They shall determine the frequency of those inspections according to the pest risk related to the operation of the quarantine stations or confinement facilities.

F4Where corrective actions to ensure compliance with Articles 61 and 62 are considered by a competent authority to be necessary, the competent authority may require the person responsible for the quarantine station or confinement facility to implement F5those corrective actions F6... , either immediately or within a specified period of time.

Where the competent authority concludes that the quarantine station or confinement facility F7does not comply with Articles 61 and 62 or the person responsible for it F8has failed to comply with Articles 61 and 62, that authority shall without delay take the measures necessary to ensure that non-compliance with those provisions does not continue. Those measures may include the revocation or suspension of the designation referred to in Article 60(1).

Where the competent authority has taken measures in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article other than the revocation of the designation referred to in Article 60(1), and non-compliance with Articles 61 and 62 continues, that authority shall without delay revoke that designation.