{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1793/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1793/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/1793",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 of 22 October 2019 on the temporary increase of official controls and emergency measures governing the entry into the Union of certain goods from certain third countries implementing Regulations (EU) 2017/625 and (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulations (EC) No 669/2009, (EU) No 884/2014, (EU) 2015/175, (EU) 2017/186 and (EU) 2018/1660 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1793",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Frequency of identity checks and physical checks",
  "text": "1. The competent authorities at border control post and at control points referred to in Article 53(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 shall carry out identity and physical checks, including sampling and laboratory analyses, on consignments of food and feed listed in Annex II, at the frequency set out in that Annex.\n2. The frequency of identity and physical checks set out in an entry in Annex II shall be applied as an overall frequency for all products falling under that entry.\n3. Compound food listed in Table 2 Table 2 (England) to Annex II which contains products falling only under one entry in Table 1 Table 1 (England) to Annex II shall be subject to the overall frequency of identity and physical checks set out in Table 1 Table 1 (England) to Annex II for that entry.\n4. Compound food listed in Table 2 Table 2 (England) to Annex II which contains products falling under several entries for the same hazard in Table 1 Table 1 (England) to Annex II shall be subject to the highest overall frequency of identity and physical checks set out in Table 1 (England) to Annex II for these entries.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(3) substituted (E.) (17.1.2023) by The Official Controls (Imports of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1193), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(3) substituted (E.) (17.1.2023) by The Official Controls (Imports of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1193), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(4) substituted (E.) (17.1.2023) by The Official Controls (Imports of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1193), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(4) substituted (E.) (17.1.2023) by The Official Controls (Imports of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1193), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1793/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:04.164848+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}