This Law establishes the competent authorities and tasks of competent authorities, the obligations of food business operators, the obligations of official laboratories, official controls, and prescribes administrative measures and misdemeanor provisions. This Law also ensures the implementation of several European Union acts as listed in article 2. The competent authority for conducting policy in the field of contaminants in food and implementing administrative and professional tasks pursuant to the provisions of this Law and the regulations referred to in article 2 of this text is the ministry responsible for health. The competent authority for the implementation of inspection supervision or official controls pursuant to the provisions of this Law and the regulations referred to in article 2 is the State Inspectorate. The ministry responsible for fisheries shall be responsible for carrying out inspection supervision or official controls on registered fishing vessels and at landing sites. The Croatian Agriculture and Food Agency is responsible for collecting data and reporting on the presence of contaminants in food. In the field of contaminants, the Ministry regulates food safety policy, monitors and harmonizes legislation, and issues guidelines for the development of plans for controlling the presence of contaminants in food, i.e. official controls. A food business operator is obliged to enable the persons referred to in article 7 of this Law to carry out unhindered supervision of the facility and operations and to inspect all documentation, including electronically accessible documentation related to the implementation of the regulations referred to in article 2 of this Law. Inspection supervision, or official controls over the implementation of rules and provisions of this Law shall be carried out by sanitary inspectors, veterinary inspectors and agricultural inspectors of the State Inspectorate and fisheries inspectors of the ministry competent for fisheries in accordance with the regulations governing the jurisdiction and powers of the State Inspectorate and the ministry competent for fisheries and official food controls This text is divided into eight main thematic Chapters and a total of 16 articles. Titles of these Chapters are as follows: I. General provisions; II. Competent authorities; III. Tasks of competent authorities; IV. Obligations of food business operators; V. Official controls; VI. Obligations of the laboratory carrying out the analysis of official samples; VII. Penalty provisions; and VIII. Transitional and final provisions.
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