Checks
Article 16
1. The administrative checks carried out on the import, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall be exhaustive and shall involve cross-checks with the documents referred to in Article 8(1). 2. The physical checks carried out in the outermost region concerned on the import, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall involve a representative sample amounting to at least 5 % of the licences and certificates presented in accordance with Article 9. Commission Regulation (EC) No 1276/2008 ( 9 ) shall apply mutatis mutandis to those physical checks. In special cases the Commission may request that physical checks cover different percentages.