S.L. 437.47 Art. 81Communication betweencompetent authorities.

The Veterinary Services shall communicate the appropriate information to competent authorities in other Member States, particularly regarding compliance with the requirements adopted for the authorisations referred to in regulation 38, for the certificates referred to in regulation 72(5) or for authorization to place products on the market. Upon reasoned request, the Veterinary Services shall forthwith communicate the reports referred to in regulation 72(3) to the competent authorities of another Member State.

The conclusions reached following an inspection as referred to in regulation 72(1) carried out by the inspectors of the Veterinary Services shall be valid for the European Union. However, by way of exception, if Malta has not been able, for serious reasons of human or animal health, to accept the conclusions of an inspection as referred to in regulation 72(1), the Veterinary Services shall forthwith inform the Commission and the Agency. When the European Commission is informed of such serious reasons, it may, after consulting the Veterinary Services, ask the inspector of the Veterinary Services to carry out a new inspection; the inspector may be accompanied by two other inspectors from Member States that are not parties to the disagreement.