(a) supplement this Regulation by specifying the criteria to be taken into account by the competent authorities of Member States when carrying out checks, in accordance with Article 26, to establish whether undertakings comply with their obligations under this Regulation;

(b) supplement this Regulation by specifying the requirements to be checked when monitoring, in accordance with Article 17, ozone-depleting substances, and products and equipment containing those substances or whose functioning relies upon those substances, placed under temporary storage or under a customs procedure, including customs warehousing or the free zone procedure, or in transit through the customs territory of the Union;

(c) amend this Regulation by adding tracing methodologies for ozone-depleting substances placed on the market for the monitoring, in accordance with Articles 13 and 14, of imports and exports of ozone-depleting substances, and products and equipment containing those substances or whose functioning relies upon those substances, placed under temporary storage or under a customs procedure.

2.   When adopting a delegated act under paragraph 1, the Commission shall take into account the environmental benefits and socioeconomic impacts of the methodology to be established under points (a), (b) and (c) of that paragraph.

1.   Import and export of ozone-depleting substances listed in Annex I, and of products and equipment containing those substances or whose functioning relies upon those substances, from and to any State or regional economic integration organisation that has not agreed to be bound by the provisions of the Protocol applicable to a particular substance controlled under the Protocol, shall be prohibited.

2.   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 29 to supplement this Regulation by establishing the rules applicable to the release for free circulation and export of products and equipment imported from and exported to any State or regional economic integration organisation within the meaning of paragraph 1, which were produced using ozone-depleting substances listed in Annex I, but do not contain substances which can be positively identified as ozone-depleting substances listed in that Annex, as well as rules on the identification of such products and equipment. When adopting those delegating acts, the Commission shall take into account the relevant decisions taken by the Parties to the Protocol and, as regards the rules on the identification of such products and equipment, any periodic technical advice given to the Parties to the Protocol.