Article 59 Monitoring of classified production and relaying areas

The competent authorities shall periodically monitor production and relaying areas classified in accordance with Article 18(6) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 in order to check:

1. (a)

   that there is no malpractice with regard to the origin, provenance and destination of live bivalve molluscs;

2. (b)

   the microbiological quality of live bivalve molluscs in relation to the classified production and relaying areas;

3. (c)

   for the presence of toxin-producing plankton in production and relaying waters and marine biotoxins in live bivalve molluscs;

4. (d)

   for the presence of chemical contaminants in live bivalve molluscs.