1. The Agency shall prepare and conduct on-site inspections in close cooperation and in coordination with the relevant authorities of the Member State concerned.

2. In order to fulfil its obligations as laid down in Article 13(5) to (8), the Agency may conduct all necessary on-site inspections at the premises of the persons subject to the investigation where business records could be kept. Where the proper conduct and efficiency of the on-site inspection so require, the Agency may carry out that inspection without prior announcement to the persons subject to the investigation.

3. To the extent necessary for the on-site inspection, the officials of, and persons authorised or appointed by, the Agency to conduct that inspection shall be empowered, with respect to the persons subject to a decision adopted by the Agency pursuant to paragraph 6, to:

(a) enter the relevant premises of those persons;