Competent authorities should have a minimum set of inspection and enforcement powers in order to ensure compliance with this Regulation, to cooperate with each other more quickly and more efficiently, and to deter economic operators, EU carriers and non-EU carriers, authorised representatives, shippers, and operators, agents and masters of seagoing vessels transporting plastic pellets, where relevant, from infringing this Regulation. Those powers should be sufficient to tackle the enforcement challenges and to prevent non-compliant economic operators from exploiting gaps in the enforcement system by relocating to Member States whose competent authorities are not equipped to tackle unlawful practices. Competent authorities should be able to use all facts and circumstances of the case as evidence for the purposes of their inspection.
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