23.4.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 111/107 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 18 April 2013 on annual reports on non-discriminatory inspections carried out pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and amending Directives 64/432/EEC and 93/119/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 (notified under document C(2013) 2098) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/188/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and amending Directives 64/432[EEC and 93/119/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 (1), and in particular Article 30(2) of thereof, Whereas: 1 ©) Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 lays down rules for the transport of live vertebrate animals carried out within the Union, including the specific checks to be carried out by officials on consignments entering or leaving the customs territory of the Union. Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 provides that the competent authority is to check that the requirements of that Regulation have been complied with, by carrying out non-discriminatory inspections of animals, means of transport and accompanying documents (‘non- discriminatory inspections’). In addition, Article 27(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 provides that Member States are to submit to the Commission by 30 June each year an annual report for the previous year on the non-discriminatory inspections (the annual reports). The annual reports are to be accompanied by an analysis of the major deficiencies detected and an action plan to address them. The Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on the impact of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 on the protection of animals during transport (%) considered that imple- menting measures should be adopted concerning the controls to be performed by the competent authorities of the Member States in accordance with Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005. That report also concluded that the structure of the reporting system should be further harmonised, as it would provide better and more comparable data. Accordingly, this Decision should establish a harmonised model form for the annual reports and, in order to () OJ L 3, 5.1.2005, p. 1. () COM(2011) 700 final. reduce the administrative burden on Member States, it should also provide for the annual reports to be submitted electronically to the Commission. Non-discriminatory inspections are carried out by the competent authority at different stages of a journey. They are carried out before departure, during the journey, at arrival at the place of destination and after the completion of the journey. During a non-discrimi- natory inspection, the competent authority may carry out a number of checks to verify compliance with Union legislation. This may include checking that animals are fit for being transported; checking that the means of transport is fulfilling the requirements of Union legis- lation or that the transporter has the necessary authori- sations. The transporter may or may not be informed beforehand. Transporters often anticipate that non-discriminatory inspections will be carried out before departure on long journeys between Member States and with third countries and after arrival at the place of destination when it is a slaughterhouse, and such non-discriminatory inspections often comprise checks of large numbers of animals. Accordingly, in the annual reports those non- discriminatory inspections should be listed separately from random and risk-based non-discriminatory inspections which are usually not anticipated and may cover a smaller number of animals. Non-discriminatory inspections carried out before or during journeys include checks by the competent authority of any accompanying documents that are required to be made available to it. Those non-discrimi- natory inspections should be accounted for separately from non-discriminatory inspections carried out after the completion of a journey, which include checks of journey logs or printouts from navigations systems, with the sole purpose of verifying compliance with the requirements set out in paragraphs 1.4, 1.5, 1.7 and 1.8 of Section 1 of Chapter V of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 concerning journey times and resting periods. Accordingly, in order to ensure a proper comparison of the information collected during the non-discriminatory inspections, this Decision should provide for three different types of non-discriminatory inspections to be reported separately for the purposes of the annual reports. Those three types of non-discriminatory inspections  should cover: (a) non-discriminatory inspections carried out at place of departure before the