Article 7
Inspection 1. Each Member State shall take the measures necessary to ensure that a competent person or a competent authority carries out an annual inspection to check that on board all vessels flying its flag: - the medical supplies meet the minimum requirements of this Directive; - the checklist provided for in Article 2 (1) (c) confirms that the medical supplies comply with those minimum requirements; - the medical supplies are correctly stored; - any expiry dates have been respected. 2. Inspections of the medical supplies stored on life-rafts shall be carried out in the course of those life-rafts' annual maintenance. Those inspections may exceptionally be postponed for up to five months.