Any person other than the manufacturer or the person producing for the exclusive requirements of his holding, compound feedingstuffs, who holds additives, premixtures prepared from additives, or one of the products covered by Directive 82/471/EEC and referred to in Chapter I.1 (a) of the Annex to this Directive at an intermediate stage between production and use.
The manufacturer or any intermediary putting a product into circulation under his own name must implement a system for registering and processing complaints. Likewise, he must be in a position to introduce, where this proves necessary, a system for prompt recall of products in the distribution network.