Therefore, in order to meet minimum requirements in terms of quality management, testing centres should comply with the requirements laid down by the authorising Member State.

does not require that the data be retained within the EU and does not fully ensure the control of compliance on the basis of EU law.

Testing facilities and equipment used in testing centres should fulfil the requirements set out for carrying out roadworthiness tests.

To facilitate enforcement of these provisions and to provide legal certainty to the contractors, Article 8(3) requires that a contractor that has carried out due diligence obligations will not be liable under Article 8(1) and (2).

Member States shall ensure that, in accordance with the principles and rules of control laid down in Directive 90/425/EEC, the competent authorities check that the requirements of this Directive have been complied with, by carrying out non-discriminatory inspections of:

Whereas in order to facilitate monitoring by the competent authorities of compliance with the conditions laid down for the granting of special refunds the abovementioned Regulations require the use of certain procedures, in particular the identification of the products by an indelible mark or by a seal; whereas the provisions which are currently laid down in the Regulations listed above with a view to preventing the products concerned from being switched can be applied in compliance with the conditions laid down for the quantity of refunds only by requiring that the export formalities and, where appropriate, cutting and boning should be ...[+++] carried out in the Member State in which the animals were slaughtered; whereas the abovementioned Regulations should therefore be amended to that effect;