Immediately after accessing the establishment, judicial inspectors entrusted with
collection of samples shall ask for the owner of the establishment or the person in
charge thereof and shall require him or her to submit the documents proving the origin of
the commodities under inspection. Upon submission, such documents shall be recorded
in detail in the Sample Collection Report and a copy thereof shall be attached to the
Report after verifying that such copy is identical to the original document.
In case the owner of the establishment or the person in charge thereof fails to submit
such documents, all commodities available shall be seized and a report shall be written
of such seizure. Sample collection procedures shall then proceed as stated in the
following articles.
In all cases, judicial inspectors shall abide by the Egyptian standards and ministerial
decrees governing the collection of samples.
Article 38
The appropriate judicial inspector shall draft a report describing the conditions of the
samples and proving the collection thereof in the presence of the owner of the
establishment or the person in charge thereof. The report shall also include the
procedures applied by the judicial inspector, particularly:
1- Time, date, and place of writing the report.
2- Name and capacity of the writer of the report and description of the order upon
which he was entrusted with the job.
3- Name and capacity of the person against who the procedures are applied (owner
or person in charge).
4- Results of examining the place where commodities are stored.
5- Documents proving the origin of the commodities.
6- Procedures taken by the writer of the report to prepare the samples, including the
number of samples and the way they are collected and transported.
7- Data printed on the seized commodities.
8- Signature of the owner of the establishment or the person in charge thereof or a
proof that s/he refused to sign the report.
Article 39
In all cases, judicial inspectors may only record actions, documents, and statements
without describing them from the legal point of view.
Article 40
If the analyses of the appropriate laboratories proved that the seized commodities are
valid or that they conform to Egyptian standards, such commodities shall be released
and the concerned party shall be notified of the analysis results.
Article 41
The Chairperson may, upon request of respondent, reanalyze one of the other two
samples in a reference laboratory approved by the appropriate authority. Cost of such
analysis shall be born by the respondent.