The provisions of Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities to ensure compliance with food law, feed law, animal health and welfare rules, plant health rules and rules on plant protection products shall apply to all sampling within its scope carried out for the purposes of investigating and detecting infringements.
In application of paragraph 3 of the same Article 35, in the event of a dispute between the authorised agents and the operators on the basis of the opinion of a second expert referred to in paragraph 1, the operators may request, at their own expense, a documentary review of the initial analysis, test or diagnosis and, where appropriate, another analysis, test or diagnosis by another official laboratory.