1.The competent authority responsible for the investigation of food-borne outbreaks pursuant to Article 8 of Directive 2003/99/EC shall collect, without undue delay, isolates of Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, where those pathogens are associated or suspected to be associated with a food-borne outbreak, based on the available analytical or epidemiological information, in the Member State of that competent authority or in another Member State and they were derived from samples taken from the suspected food, animals, feed or the related environment during foodborne outbreak investigations.