Reports
Article 18
On completion of each visit, the members of the Committee and the representatives of the visited Member State shall meet to consider the results. The members of the Committee shall draw conclusions from the on-the-spot inspection concerning: (a) the application of the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcasses; (b) the recording of market prices according to those classification scales. The Committee chairman shall draw up a report on the on-the-spot inspections conducted containing the conclusions referred to in the first subparagraph. The report shall be sent at the earliest possibility to the inspected Member State and to the other Member States, subsequently. In the case of reports on on-the-spot inspection referred to in the second subparagraph carried out in a Member State, the Commission shall provide the relevant competent authority with a draft report for comments, take those comments into consideration in preparing the final report and publish the competent authority's comments together with the final report. When the report on the on-the-spot inspections conducted notes shortcomings in the various fields of activity which were the subject of the inspection, or makes recommendations with a view to improving operations, the Member States shall inform the Commission of all changes which are envisaged or have taken place not later than three months after the date on which the report was transmitted.