CELEX: 21974D0813(10)
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Decision No 2/74 of the EEC-ICELAND Joint Committee establishing a simplified procedure for the issue of EUR.1 movement certificates

13 . 3 . 74                         Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 224/23
                                DECISION No 2/74 OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE
                    establishing a simplified procedure for the issue of EUR.1 movement certificates
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE,                                            2.     The   Customs    authorities   shall   refuse such
                                                                 authorization to exporters who do not offer all the
Having regard to the Agreement between the                       guarantees which they consider necessary.
European Economic Community and the Republic of
Iceland, signed in Brussels on 22 July 1972 ;
                                                                 3.     The Customs authorities may withdraw the
                                                                 authorization at any time. They must do so where the
Having regard to Protocol No 3 concerning the                    approved exporter no longer satisfies the conditions
definition of the concept of originating products and            or no longer offers the guarantees referred to in the
methods of administrative cooperation, and in                    preceding paragraphs .
particular Articles 16 and 28 thereof;
Whereas the formalities relating to the issue of EUR.1                                   Article 4
movement certificates may be considerably eased in
the cases of exporters making frequent shipments ;
whereas the conditions and detailed rules for easing             1.     The authorization shall stipulate, at the choice
the formalities must be laid down,                               of the Customs authorities, that box No 11 , 'Customs
                                                                Endorsement', of the EUR.1 movement certificate
                                                                 must
 HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                 ( a) either be endorsed beforehand with the stamp of
                                                                      the competent Customs office of the exporting
                                                                      State and the handwritten or non-handwritten
                         Article 1                                    signature of an official of that office, or
                                                                 ( b) be endorsed by the approved exporter with a
By way of derogation from Article 8 ( 1 ), (2 ) and (5 ),             special stamp which has been approved by the
and Articles 9 and 10 of Protocol No 3 , a simplified                 Customs authorities of the exporting State and
procedure for the issue of EUR.1 movement                             corresponds to the specimen given in the Annex;
certificates is hereby established in accordance with                 this stamp may be preprinted on the forms.
the following provisions.
                                                                2. In the cases referred to in paragraph 1 (a), one
                         Article 2                               of the following phrases shall be entered in box
                                                                No 7, 'Remarks', of the EUR.1 movement certificate :
The Customs authorities in the exporting State may              'Simplified procedure', 'Forenklet procedure',
authorize any exporter, hereinafter referred to as              'Vereinfachtes Verfahren', 'Procedure simplifiée',
'approved exporter', who satisfies the conditions set           'Procedura semplificata', 'Vereenvoudigde procedure',
out in Article 3 and who intends to carry out                   'Einföldun afgreidslu'.
transactions for which EUR.1 movement certificates
may be issued not to submit to the Customs office in
the exporting State at the time of export either the            3 . Where the simplified procedure applies, the
goods or the application for an EUR.1 movement                  Customs authorities of the exporting State may
certificate relating to those goods, for the purpose of         prescribe the use of EUR.1 movement certificates
obtaining an EUR.1 movement certificate under the               bearing a distinctive sign by which they may be
                                                                identified .
conditions laid down in Article 8 of Protocol No 3 .
                         Article 3                                                       Article 5
1.      The authorization referred to in Article 2 shall        1.     In the authorization the Customs authorities
be granted only to exporters making frequent                    shall specify in particular:
shipments and who offer, to the satisfaction of the
Customs authorities, all guarantees necessary to                ( a) the conditions under which the applications for
verify the originating status of the products.                        EUR.1 movement certificates are made,
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(b) the conditions under which these applications              2.    The approved exporter shall if necessary
     and the EUR.l movement certificates used as the           indicate in box No 13, 'Request for Verification', of
     basis for the issue of other EUR.l movement               the  EUR.l       movement    certificate  the name     and
     certificates under the conditions laid down in            address of the Customs authority competent to verify
     Article 8 (2) of Protocol No 3 are kept for at            the certificate .
    least two years,
(c) in the cases referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ) (b ), the
     Customs authority competent to carry out the                                       Article 8
     subsequent verification referred to in Article 19
     of Decision No 3/73 of the Joint Committee.               The Customs authorities in the exporting State may
                                                               carry out any check on the approved exporter which
2.t The approved exporter may be required to                   they consider necessary. The approved exporter must
inform the Customs authorities, in accordance with             allow this to be done .
the rules they lay down, of goods to be dispatched by
him, so that the competent Customs office may make
any verification it thinks necessary before the                                         Article 9
departure of the goods.
                                                               The Customs authorities in the exporting State may
                                                               declare certain categories of goods ineligible for the
                         Article 6                             special treatment provided for in Article 1 .
Where, under the simplified procedure, Article 20 of
Decision No 3 /73 of the Joint Committee is applied,                                    Article 10
the expressions laid down in that Article shall be
authenticated, as appropriate, either by the stamp             This Decision shall not prejudice application of the
used by the competent Customs office of the                    rules of the Community, the Member States and
exporting State, or by the special stamp referred to in        Iceland on customs formalities           and the use of
Article 4 ( 1 ) (b ), which may be preprinted on the           customs documents .
form.
                        Article 7                                                       Article 11
1 . In the cases referred to in Article 4 ( 1 ), box           This Decision shall apply mutatis mutandis where
No 11 , 'Customs Endorsement', of the EUR.l                    movement certificates of the types referred to in
movement certificate shall be completed if necessary           Article 13 (3 ) of Decision No 10/73 of the Joint
by the approved exporter.                                      Committee are used.
               Done at Brussels, 8 July 1974.
                                                                                  For the Joint Committee
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                    R. de KERGORLAY
                       The Secretaries
               O. EGILSSON         M. C. SAOT
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                                                 ANNEX
          (*) Initials or coat of arms of the exporting State.
          (2) Such information as is necessary for the identification of the approved exporter.