1.The Commission shall evaluate marketing standards for eggs applicable in exporting third countries on request of the country concerned. This evaluation shall extend to the rules on marking and labelling, farming methods and checks as well as their implementation. If it finds that the rules applied offer sufficient guarantees as to their equivalence with Union legislation, eggs imported from the country concerned shall be marked with a distinguishing number equivalent to the producer code.
2.Any evaluation of equivalence of rules as referred to in paragraph 1 shall include an assessment of whether the requirements contained in this Regulation are effectively met by operators in the third country concerned. It shall be updated regularly. The Commission shall publish the result of the evaluation in theOfficial Journal of the European Union.
3.Eggs imported from third countries shall be clearly and legibly marked in the country of origin with its ISO 3166 country code.
4.Where there is not sufficient guarantee as to the equivalence of rules as referred to in paragraph 1, packs containing eggs imported from the third country concerned shall bear on the outer surface in easily visible and clearly legible type:
the country of origin;
the farming method as ‘non-EU standard’.