Official controls in certain approved establishments
Article 3
1. Official veterinarians, or in the case of approved aquaculture establishments and approved groups of aquaculture establishments, official veterinarians or official aquatic animal health professionals, shall perform official controls to verify compliance with animal health requirements referred to in Article 1, paragraph (2), point (d), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and laid down in and pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/429, in the following types of establishments that have obtained approval from the competent authority: (a) hatcheries and establishments keeping poultry; (b) establishments for assembly operations for ungulates and poultry; (c) assembly centres of dogs, cats and ferrets; (d) animal shelters for dogs, cats and ferrets; (e) control posts; (f) environmentally isolated production establishments for bumble bees; (g) approved quarantine establishments; (h) confined establishments; (i) approved germinal product establishments; (j) approved aquaculture establishments (k) approved groups of aquaculture establishments. The official controls referred to in the first subparagraph shall in particular verify that the operators responsible for the approved establishments continue to comply with the approval requirements for those establishments. 2. The official controls referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall include inspections referred to in Article 14, point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 that shall be performed in accordance with at least the minimum frequencies, where such frequencies are set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/160 ( 12 ) . 3. The inspections referred to in paragraph 2 may be combined with: (a) official controls referred to in Article 9, paragraph (3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625; (b) other official controls to verify compliance with requirements referred to in Article 1, paragraph (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625; or (c) other official controls, inspections or visits provided for in Union rules.