8. Every year economic operators that are medium-sized or large enterprises operating installations where plastic pellets in quantities equal to or above a threshold of 1 500 tonnes have been handled in the previous calendar year shall, for each installation, carry out an internal assessment on the state of compliance of the installation with the requirements of the risk management plan laid down in Annex I or with the conditions under which the permit referred to in Article 7(1), point (a), was granted.
The economic operators referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall retain records of the internal assessments for a period of five years and shall make them available to competent authorities on demand, and to certifiers for the purposes of Article 6.