Amendment to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698
Article 1
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1698 is amended as follows: (1) Article 8 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 8 List of high-risk third countries and high-risk products High-risk products and the third countries in which they originate shall be listed together with the shares of consignments of those products to be subject to identity and physical checks and sampling by control authorities and control bodies in third countries, and by the competent authorities of the Member States, as appropriate, in an implementing act adopted in accordance with Article 46(8) of Regulation (EU) 2018/848 on the basis of a selection made after major, critical or repetitive non-compliances affecting the integrity of organic or in-conversion products or production. The shares referred to in the first subparagraph can be lower than 100 % and may, for the same product, be different for controls by control authorities and control bodies in third countries and the competent authorities of the Member States respectively.’ ; (2) the first sentence of Article 16, paragraph (6), is replaced by the following: ‘For consignments of high-risk products referred to in Article 8, the relevant control authority or control body shall carry out physical checks and take at least one representative sample in accordance with the applicable percentage laid down in the implementing act referred to in Article 8.’.