Pursuant to the criteria listed in Appendix 6, the competent authority shall, based on the information declared during the preceding year, categorize exporters of distant water fisheries products into high, medium, and low risk level. Unless otherwise provided in these Regulations, audits shall be conducted pursuant to the following provisions:(1) For the exportation amount over 10,000 metric tons during the preceding year, an audit shall be conducted every year.(2) For the exportation amount over 1,000 metric tons and of 10,000 metric tons or less during the preceding year, an audit shall be conducted every five years.(3) For the exportation amount of 1,000 metric tons or less during the preceding year, random audit shall be conducted at the ratio of 5% every year, and priority shall be given to those categorized as high or medium level.For any exporter of distant water fisheries products that has not exported any catch or fisheries product as listed in Appendix 1 in the preceding year, the competent may not audit such exporter in accordance with the provision stipulated in the preceding paragraph.In the event that any exporter of distant water fisheries products is reported to be involved in or support the transaction of IUU fishing activities, or any anomaly appears in relevant catch certificates applied by any exporter of distant water fisheries products, or the points of risk increase, the competent authority may conduct the audit at any time.Appendix 1 Types of catches or fisheries products that can be exported by the exporters of distant water fisheries products.pdfAppendix 6 Risk Criteria.pdf