Regulation 8 Power of authorised personsI1

providing the control report pursuant to Article 72 of the Commission Implementing Regulation;

establishing whether there has been any non-compliance in any case; or

ascertaining whether an offence under these Regulations has been or is being committed.

carry out any inquiries, checks, examinations, measurements and tests;

take samples;

inspect all of any part of the land, (whether it is farmed or is withdrawn from agricultural production) and any livestock, crops, machinery or equipment;

mark any animal or other thing for identification purposes;

have access to, inspect any documents or records (in whatever form they are held) or remove such records to enable them to be copied;

have access to, inspect and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been in use in connection with the documents or records; and for this purpose require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer, apparatus or material to afford such assistance as is reasonable required and, where a document or record is kept by means of a computer, require the document or record to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away;

remove a carcass found on the land for the purpose of carrying out a post-mortem examination on it;

take a photograph of anything on the land;

remove anything reasonably believed to be evidence of any non-compliance.