What does control commission check before and after racing?

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Control commission is the administration centre and launch control, based near the boat launching area. All crews must report to it before launching. Under Rule 12.4 it:

Records all crew changes and withdrawals.
Weighs coxswains and lightweight rowers, using tested scales reading to 0.1 kg, between one and two hours before their first race each day.
Checks the coxswain's deadweight before and after the race.
Checks crew composition, and substitutes after the first heat (only for serious illness or injury, with a medical certificate).
Checks boats and equipment: safety requirements (bow ball, quick-release foot restraints), correct bow numbers, unauthorised equipment, and whether boats, blades and racing uniforms are registered and conform.
Tells crews drawn for random boat weighing as they leave the water and accompanies them to the scales. Nothing may be added to the boat before weighing.
Takes rowers selected for doping control to the SAIDS officials as soon as they get out of the boat.
Receives notice from the club representative of any rower's medical condition, and passes it on to the race umpire.

Underweight boats: if a boat weighs in light, the scales are tested in front of the crew representative and the boat is weighed again, and the second result stands. A crew that raced underweight is relegated to last in that race, and excluded if it happens again in a later round of the same event.