1. Competent authorities may delegate, in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, specific tasks related to official controls of the quality schemes to one or more control bodies.
2. Such control bodies shall be accredited in accordance with European Standard EN 45011 or ISO/IEC Guide 65 (General requirements for bodies operating product certification systems).
3. Accreditation referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article may only be performed by:
(a)
a national accreditation body in the Union in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; or
(b)
an accreditation body outside the Union that is a signatory of a multilateral recognition arrangement under the auspices of the International Accreditation Forum.