CELEX: 31969R0542
Language: en
Date: 1969-03-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 542/69 of the Council of 18 March 1969 on Community transit

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                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 542/69 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 18 March 1969
                                                  on Community transit
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                        between two points in the Community, will facilitate
                                                                 transport within the Community and in particular
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     simplify the formalities to be carried out when
European Economic Community, and in particular                   internal frontiers are crossed ;
Article 235 thereof;
                                                                 Whereas under a Community transit procedure goods
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;              brought into the customs territory of the Community
                                                                 can be carried from the place of entry to their
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                     destination or, in the case of passage through the
Parliament1 ;                                                    Community, to the customs office at the point of exit,
                                                                 without renewed customs formalities when the goods
                                                                 cross from one Member State to another;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee2;
                                                                 Whereas the advantages to be expected from the said
                                                                 procedure will make goods flow more freely and give
Whereas the Community is based on a customs                      users an incentive to clear goods for home use near
union ;
                                                                 the place where they will be used rather than at the
                                                                 external frontier; whereas this will make possible a
Whereas the establishment of the customs union is                more rational use of available facilities at entry
governed in the main by Chapter 1 of Title I of Part             points ; whereas the Community transit procedure
Two of the Treaty ; whereas that Chapter contains a              should for those reasons prevent diversion of customs
series of specific provisions dealing in particular with         receipts;
the elimination of customs duties between Member
States, the establishment and progressive introduction           Whereas, in the interchange of goods between
of a Common Customs Tariff and the autonomous
                                                                 Member States, the abolition of customs duties,
alteration or suspension of the duties therein;                  quantitative restrictions and taxes and measures
whereas while Article 27 provides that Member                    having    equivalent   effect   does not ensure that
States shall, before the end of the first stage in so far
                                                                 Community goods move within the Community
as may be necessary, take steps to approximate their             under conditions corresponding to those within a
provisions    laid   down    by     law,   regulation   or       Member State;
administrative action in respect of customs matters,
that Article does net empower the institutions of the
Community to issue binding provisions in that field;             Whereas the Community transit procedure for
whereas, however, a thorough examination                         Community goods offers, during an initial period, at
undertaken jointly with Member States has shown                  least the same advantages as those for other goods;
the need to institute, by means of a Regulation, a               whereas, moreover, the procedure can later be
Community transit procedure in order to avoid a                  simplified, and thus, as the various national systems
succession of national customs procedures in                     are approximated, will result in complete freedom of
connection with the carriage of goods ;                          movement for goods within the Community;
Whereas the introduction of a Community transit                  Whereas, in the interest of users and with a view to
procedure, under which goods will be able to move                rendering as easy as possible the task of national
                                                                 government authorities responsible for supervising
                                                                 the movement of goods, the simultaneous application
1 OJ No C 66, 2.7.1968, p. 35.                                   of several administrative procedures should be
2 OJ No C 132, 6.12.1968, p . 5 .                                avoided ; whereas the Community transit procedure
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should always be used when supervision is necessary            2.     The procedure for external Community transit
in respect of the use or destination of goods ;                shall apply to movement of the following goods :
Whereas the Community transit procedure should, in             (a) Goods which do not satisfy the conditions laid
principle, be applied to all movement of goods within               down in Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty
the Community;                                                      establishing the European Economic Community;
Whereas, in order to simplify administrative                   (b) Goods coming under the Treaty establishing the
formalities, the Community transit procedure should                 European Coal and Steel Community which
provide a basis for compiling statistics on the                     under the terms of that Treaty are not in free
movement of goods ; whereas, in order to ensure that                circulation in the Community.
such statistics are complete and reliable,
administrative co-operation between the Member                3 . The procedure for internal Community transit
States should be assured and Community transit                shall apply to movement of the following goods, if
documents should contain the necessary information;           they are subject to customs, tax, economic or
                                                               statistical measures or any other measures relating to
Whereas uniform application of the provisions of this         trade :
Regulation should be ensured, and to that end a
Community procedure should be instituted making it             (a) Goods which satisfy the conditions laid down in
possible to issue the necessary rules of                            Articles 9 and 10 of the Treaty establishing the
implementation within a suitable period; whereas a                  European Economic Community (hereinafter
Committee should be set up to organise close and                    called 'Community goods');
effective co-operation between the Member States and
the Commission in this field;                                  (b) Goods coming under the Treaty establishing the
                                                                    European Coal and Steel Community which
Whereas the Treaty does not provide the necessary                   under the terms of that Treaty are in free
powers to institute a Community transit procedure                   circulation within the Community.
with direct effect in the Member States; whereas this
Regulation must, therefore, be based on Article 235           4. For purposes of application of the provisions of
thereof;                                                       the Treaty establishing the European Economic
                                                               Community which relate to the free movement of
Whereas this Regulation does not affect the                    goods, and subject to the provisions of Articles 2 (2),
provisions of the Treaty establishing the European             7 (3 ), 8 (b), 47, 48 (2) and 49 (2) of this Regulation,
Coal and Steel Community, in particular as regards             goods properly imported into the territory of a
the rights and obligations of Member States, the              Member State across an internal frontier shall be
powers of the institutions of that Community and the           deemed to be Community goods unless an external
rules laid down by that Treaty for the functioning of          Community transit document is produced in respect
the common market in coal and steel; whereas,                  of them .
taking into account the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 232 thereof, this Regulation applies to the
goods appearing in the list in Annex I to the Treaty                                    Article 2
establishing    the    European     Coal     and   Steel
Community;                                                     1 . In derogation from Article 1, the Community
                                                               transit procedure shall not apply to movements of
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                               goods under a temporary importation or temporary
                                                               admission procedure.
                        TITLE I
                                                               2. The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
                   General provisions                          European Economic Community which relate to the
                                                               free movement of goods shall only apply to move­
                        Article 1                              ments of goods under an international procedure of
                                                               temporary importation or temporary admission if an
1.    The Community transit procedure instituted by            internal Community transit document is produced
this Regulation shall apply to movement of the goods           proving the Community nature of these goods .
referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 between two points           However, under conditions to be determined under
situated in the Community. It includes a procedure             the procedure prescribed in Article 58, such goods
for external Community transit and a procedure for             may be regarded as Community goods without the
internal Community transit.                                    production of any such document.
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                        Article 3                               goods by road (TIR Convention), international
                                                                transit by rail (TIF Convention) or the Rhine
 1 . In derogation from Article 1, each Member                  Manifest (Article 9 of the Revised Convention for the
 State may provide for the application of a national            Navigation of the Rhine) on condition that that
procedure instead of the external or internal                   carriage of goods began or is to end outside the
 Community transit procedure in respect of goods                Community.
referred to in Article 1 (2) and (3 ) during carriage
within its territory, or from one of its ports to               For the purposes of the first subparagraph, carriage
another if carriage is effected by sea.                         of goods by rail within the territory of a Member
                                                                State, when the customs authorities apply a separate
                                                                control procedure, shall be considered to be under the
2.     A Member State exercising this option shall see         procedure of international transit by rail on condition
to it that implementation of the Community                      that carriage is effected under cover of a single
measures applicable to the goods is ensured.                    transport document.
3.     For purposes of paragraph 1, the territory of the       2. Until the date on which the flat-rate guarantee
Benelux Economic Union shall be considered to be
                                                               system provided for in Article 32 has been introduced
 the territory of one Member State.                             in all Member States and at least until the end of a
                                                               period of four years commencing on 1 January 1970,
                        Article 4                              carriage of goods may be effected under the
                                                               procedure of international carriage of goods by road,
                                                               even if that carriage of goods began and is to end
1.     If the subsequent carriage of goods dealt with          within the Community.
under a national procedure in accordance with
Article 2 ( 1 ) or Article 3 entails the crossing of an        In Rhine traffic, carriage of goods may be effected
internal frontier, such goods are to be placed under           provisionally under the procedure of the Rhine
the Community transit procedure before crossing that           Manifest, even if that carriage of goods began and is
frontier.                                                      to end within the Community.
2.     However, under conditions to be determined              3 . The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
under the procedure prescribed by Article 58, the              European Economic Community which relate to free
provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to goods             movement of goods shall apply to the movement of
dealt with under a procedure of temporary                      goods under one of the procedures referred to in
importation or temporary admission.                            paragraphs 1 and 2 including that of the Rhine
                                                               Manifest, on condition that they are accompanied not
                        Article 5
                                                               only by the document required under the procedure
                                                                used, but also by an internal Community transit
                                                               document issued to prove the Community nature of
This Regulation shall be without prejudice to                  the goods.
agreements made between Member States concerning
frontier traffic.                                              The internal Community transit document shall bear
                                                               at the top the reference 'TIR' of 'TIF' or 'Rhine
                                                                Manifest', followed by the date of issue and the
                        Article 6                              number of the        document     required    under   the
                                                               procedure used.
Member States may, under the Community transit
procedure, introduce simplified procedures for certain
types of traffic by means of bilateral agreements                                      Article S
between each other on condition that implementation
of the Community measures applicable to the goods              In the absence of an agreement between the
is ensured .                                                   Community and a third country whereby goods
                                                                moving between two points in the Community may
Such agreements shall be communicated to the                   be carried across that country under the Community
Commission and to the other Member States .                    transit procedure :
                                                               ( a) The Community transit procedure shall only
                        Article 7                                    apply if the carriage of goods across that third
                                                                     country is effected under cover of a single
1 . In derogation from Article 1 , the Community                    transport document drawn up in a Member
transit procedure siall not apply to carriage of goods              State, operation of that procedure being
under the procedures of international carriage of                    suspended in the territory of the third country ;
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(b) Article 7 ( 1 ) and (3 ) shall apply to goods carried               — also, when ine consignment is leaving the
      through the territory of the third country, even if                   customs territory of the Community in the
      carriage of the goods began and is to end within                      course of a Community transit operation, the
      the Community.                                                        customs office at the point of exit from the
                                                                            Community ;
                          Article 9                               (e) 'office of destination' means the customs office
                                                                        where the goods must be produced to conclude
Where, in the cases provided for in this Regulation,                    the Community transit operation ;
the provisions of the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community which relate to free                  (f) 'office of guarantee' means the customs office
movement of goods are only applied on presentation                      where a comprehensive guarantee is lodged;
of an internal Community transit document issued to
prove the Community nature of the goods, the party                (g) 'internal frontier' means a frontier common to
concerned may, for any valid reason, obtain that                        two Member States .
document subsequently from the competent
authorities of the Member State of departure.
                                                                                            TITLE II
                          Article 10
                                                                          Procedure for external Community transit
Prohibitions      and     restrictions  on     importation,                               Article 12
exportation and transit issued by the Member States
shall apply where they are compatible with the three
Treaties establishing the European Communities.                   1.     Any goods that are to be carried under the
                                                                  procedure for external Community transit shall be
                                                                  covered, in accordance with the conditions laid down
                          Article 1 1                             in this Regulation, by a T1 declaration. A T1
                                                                  declaration is a declaration on form T1 (see specimen
                                                                  in Annex A), accompanied, where appropriate, by
 For the purposes "of this Regulation :                           one or more forms T1 bis (see specimen at Annex B).
 (a) 'principal' means the person who, in person or
       through an authorised representative, requests             2 . The forms T1 and T1 bis shall be printed and
       permission, in a declaration in accordance with            completed in one of the official languages of the
      the required customs formalities, to carry out a             Community specified by the competent authorities of
       Community transit operation and thereby makes               the Member State of departure. Where necessary, the
      himself responsible to the competent authorities            competent authorities of a Member State concerned
      for the execution of the operation in accordance             in the Community transit operation may require a
      with the rules ;                                             translation into the official language or one of the
                                                                  official languages of that Member State.
 ( b) 'means of transport' means, in particular :
       —   any road vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer,                3 . . The T1 declaration shall be signed by the
       —   any railway car or wagon,                               person who requests permission to effect an external
                                                                   Community transit operation or by his authorised
       —   any boat or ship,                                       representative ; and vat least three copies of it shall be
       —   any aircraft,                                           produced at the office of departure.
       —   any container within the meaning of the
           Customs Convention on Containers of 18                  4. The supplementary documents appended to the
           May 1956 ;                                              T1 declaration shall form an integral part thereof.
  (c) 'office of departure' means the customs office
       where the Community transit operation begins ;              5 . The T1 declaration shall be accompanied by the
                                                                   transport document. The office of departure may
                                                                   decide not to require production of this document
  (d) 'office of transit' means :
                                                                   during the customs formalities. However, the
        — the customs office at the point of entry into a          transport document must be produced whenever
           Member State other than the Member State                required by the customs authorities in the course of
           of departure;                                           carriage.
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 6.      Where the Community transit procedure in the            departure and for unloading at more than one office
 Member State of departure follows another customs               of destination .
 procedure, reference shall be made on the T1
  declaration to that procedure or to the corresponding          2 . Each T1 declaration shall include only the
  customs documents .                                            goods loaded or to be loaded on a single means of
                                                                 transport for carriage from one office of departure to
                         Article 13                              one office of destination .
                                                                 For purposes of the preceding subparagraph the
 The prinicpal shall bs responsible for :                        following shall be regarded as constituting a single
  ( a) the representation of the goods intact at the office      means of transport, on condition that the goods
       of destination within the prescribed time limit           carried are to be dispatched together :
       and   with   due   observance   of the    measures
       adopted by the competent authorities to ensure            (a) a road vehicle accompanied by its trailer(s) or
       identification ;                                                 semi-trailer (s);
 (b) the observance of the provisions relating to the            ( b) a line of coupled railway carriages or wagons ;
       Community transit procedure and to transit in             ( c) boats constituting a single chain ;
       each of the Member States in the territory of
       which carriage oi the goods is effected.                  ( d ) containers loaded on a means of transport within
                                                                        the meaning of this Article.
                         Article 14
                                                                                          Article 17
 1.      Each Member State may prescribe the use,
 under conditions to be determined by it, of the T1             1.       The office of departure shall register the Tl
 document for national procedures .                             declaration , prescribe the period within which the
                                                                goods must be produced at the office of destination,
                                                                and take such measures for identification as it
2 . The supplementary details included on the T1
 document to that end by a person other than the                considers necessary.
 principal shall be the responsibility of the former, in
 accordance with the national provisions laid down by            2. Having entered the necessary particulars on the
 law, regulation or administrative action.                      Tl declaration, the office of departure shall retain
                                                                one copy and return the others to the principal or his
                                                                representative.
                         Article IS
 1 . Where the goods, before they can be dealt with                                       Article 18
 under the external Community transit procedure, are
 required to form the subject of an export or                   1.       As a general rule, identification of the goods
re-export declaration, that declaration and the                 shall be ensured by sealing.
Community transit declaration shall be combined on
a form Tl , accompanied, where appropriate, by one              2.       The following shall be sealed :
or more forms Tl bis .
                                                                (a) the space containing the goods, when the means
However, national export or re-export forms may be                     of transport has already been approved under
used concurrently with form Tl and Tl bis up to                        other customs regulations or recognised by the
 and including 31 December 1970.                                       office of departure as suitable for sealing;
2.      Each Member State shall determine, for the              (b ) each individual package, in other cases .
application of its national rules, which details, other
than those prescribed on form Tl, should be                     3.       Means of transport may be recognised as
included in the export or re-export declaration in the          suitable for sealing on condition that :
spaces provided for that purpose, as well as the
number of copies to be produced.                                ( a) seals can be simply and effectively affixed to
                                                                       them ;
                         Article 16                             (b) they are so constructed that no goods can be
                                                                       removed or introduced without leaving visible
 1 . The same means of transport may be used for                       traces of tampering or without breaking the
the loading of goods at more than one office of                        seals ;
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(c) they contain no concealed spaces where goods                   3.     If, in accordance with the provisions of Article
     may be hidden ;                                               19 (2), goods are carded via an office of transit other
                                                                   than that mentioned in the T1 document, that office
( d) the spaces reserved for the load are readily                  shall without delay send the transit advice note to the
     accessible for customs inspection.                            office mentioned in that document.
4 . . The office of departure may dispense with
sealing if, having regard to other possible measures                                        Article 23
for identification, the description of the goods in the
T1 declaration or in the supplementary documents                   Where goods are loaded or unloaded at any
makes them readily identifiable.                                   intermediate office, copies of the T1 document issued
                                                                   by the office(s ) of departure must be produced.
                          Article 19
                                                                                            Article 24
1.    The copies of the Ti document delivered to the
principal or to his representative by the office of                1 . The goods described on a T1 document may,
departure must accompany the goods .                               without renewal of the declaration, be transferred to
                                                                   another means of transport under the supervision of
2.     Goods shall be carried via the offices of transit            the 'customs authorities of the Member State in whose
mentioned in the Tl document. If circumstances                     territory the transfer is made. In such a case, the
justify it, other offices of transit may be used.                  customs authorities shall record the relevant details
                                                                 i on the T1 document.
3.    For supervision purposes, each Member State
may prescribe transit routes within its territory.                 2.     The customs authorities may, subject to such
                                                                   conditions as they shall determine, authorise such
4.    Each     Member        State   shall   provide     the       transfer without supervision. In such a case, the
Commission       with   a  list of the     customs   offices       carrier shall record the relevant details on the Tl
authorised      to   deal     with   Community       transit       document and inform the next customs office at
operations, stating at what hours they are open.                   which the goods must be produced,, so that the
                                                                   transfer is officially certified by the customs
The Commission shall communicate this information                  authorities .
to the other Member States .
                                                                                            Article 25
                          Article 20
                                                                   1.     If the seals are broken in the course of carriage
Copies of the T1 document shall be produced in each                without the carrier so intending, he shall, as soon as
Member State as required by the customs authorities,               possible, request that a certified report be drawn up
who may satisfy themselves that the seals are                      in the Member State in which the means of transport
unbroken . The goods shall not be inspected unless                 is located, by the customs authority if there is one in
some irregularity is suspected which could result in               the neighbourhood or, if not, by any other competent
abuse.                                                             authority. The authority concerned shall, if possible,
                                                                   affix new seals .
                          Article 21                               2 . In the event of an accident necessitating transfer
                                                                   to another means of transport the provisions of
The consignment as well as the copies of the Tl                    Article 24 shall apply.
document shall be produced at each office of transit.
                                                                   If there is no customs authority in the
                                                                   neighbourhood, any other approved authority may
                          Article 22                               act in its place under the conditions laid down in
                                                                   Article 24 ( 1 ).
1 . The carrier shall give each office of transit a
transit advice note conforming to the model shown in               3 . In the event of imminent danger necessitating
Annex E.
                                                                    immediate unloading of the whole or part of the
                                                                   load, the carrier may take action on his own
2.    The offices of transit shall not inspect the goods           initiative. He shall record such action on the Tl
unless some irregularity is suspected which could                  document. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply
result in abuse .                                                  in such a case.
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4.    If as a result of accidents or other incidents            on a proposal from the Commission , as a result of an
arising in the course of carriage, the carrier is not in a     examination of the conditions under which the
position to observe the time limit referred to in              Member States have been able to exercise their right
Article 17, he shall inform the competent authority            of recovery in accordance with Article 36. The
referred to in paragraph 1 as soon as possible. That           Commission shall submit a report on this subject by
authority shall then record the relevant details on the        31 March 1971 at the latest.
Tl document .
                                                                                       Article 29
                        Article 26
                                                               1.     Subject to the provisions of Article 32 (2) (a),
1.    The office of destination shall record on the            the guarantee referred tc in Article 27 (3 ) shall be in
copies of the T1 document the details of controls and          the form of one of the specimen guarantees shown as
shall without delay send a copy to the office of               Model I or Model II in Annex F to this Regulation,
departure and retain the other copy.                           as appropriate.
2.    The Commun ty transit operation may be                   2. Where the provisions laid down by law,
concluded at an office other than that mentioned in            regulation or administrative action, or common
the T1 document. That other office shall then                  practice so require, each Member State may allow the
become the office of destination .                             guarantee to be in a different form, on condition that
                                                                it has the same legal effects as the documents shown
                                                               as specimens .
                        Article 27
1.    In order to ensure collection of the duties and                                  Article 30
other taxes which one of the Member States is
authorised to charge in respect of goods passing               1 . A comprehensive guarantee shall be lodged in
through its territory in the course of Community               an office of guarantee.
transit, the principal shall furnish a guarantee, except
as otherwise provided in this Regulation .                     2.     The office of guarantee shall determine the
                                                               amount of the guarantee, accept the guarantor's
2.    The guarantee may be comprehensive, covering             undertaking and issue a provisional authorisation
a number of Community transit operations, or                   allowing the principal to carry out, within the limits
individual, covering a single Community transit                of the guarantee, any Community transit operation
operation .                                                    irrespective of the office of departure.
3 . Subject to the provisions of Article 33 (2), the           3 . Each person who has obtained provisional
guarantee shall consist of the joint and several               authorisation shall be issued with one or more copies
guarantee of a natural or legal third person                   of a guarantee certificate in the form shown in Annex
established in the Member State in which the                   G, subject to the conditions laid down by the
guarantee is provided who is approved as guarantor             competent authorities of the Member States .
by that Member Stare .
                                                               4.     Reference to this certificate shall be made in
                                                               each T1 declaration .
                        Article 28
1.    The person standing as guarantor under the                                       Article 31
conditions    referred  to   in   Article  27   shall   be
responsible for designating, in each of the Member             1 . The office of guarantee may revoke the
States through which the goods will be carried in the          provisional authorisation if the conditions under
course of Community transit, a natural or legal third          which it was issued no longer exist.
person who also will stand as guarantor for the
principal .                                                    2 . Each Member State shall notify the Member
Such guarantor must be established in the Member               States concerned of any revocation of provisional
                                                               authorisations .
State in question ar.d must undertake, jointly and
severally with the principal, to pay the duties and
other taxes chargeable in that State.                                                  Article 32
2. The application of paragraph 1 shall be subject              1 . Each Member State may accept that the natural
to a qualified majority decision of the Council acting         or legal third person standing as guarantor under the
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 conditions     laid  down    in  Articles   27   and   28        were carried in the course of a Community transit
 guarantees, by a single guarantee and for a flat-rate            operation when the T1 document has been
 amount of five thousand units of account in respect              discharged at the office of departure.
 of each declaration, payment of duties and other
 charges which may become chargeable in the course
 of a Community transit operation carried out under                                        Article 36
 his responsibility, whoever the principal may be. If
 carriage of the goods presents increased risks , having          1.     When it is found that, in the course of a
 regard in particular to the amount of duties and                 Community transit operation, an offence or
 other charges to which they are liable in one or more            irregularity has been committed in a particular
 Member States, the flat-rate amount shall be fixed at            Member State, the recovery of duties or other charges
 a higher level.                                                 which may be chargeable shall be effected by that
                                                                 Member State in accordance with its provisions laid
 2.      The following shall be determined under the              down by law, regulation or administrative action,
 procedure laid down in Article 58 :                             without prejudice to the institution of criminal
 (a) the model form for the guarantee referred to in
                                                                 proceedings .
       paragraph 1 ;
 (b) the carriage of goods likely to give rise to an             2 . If the place of the offence or irregularity cannot
       increase in the flat-rate amount, and the                  be determined, it shall be deemed to have been
       conditions under which such an increase shall             committed :
       apply ;                                                   ( a) where, in the course of a Community transit
  (c) the conditions under which it will be established                operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
       that the guarantee referred to in paragraph 1                   at an office of transit situated at an internal
       shall apply to any particular Community transit                 frontier : in the Member State which the means of
       operation .                                                      transport or the goods have just left ;
                                                                  (b ) where, in the course of a Community transit
                        Article 33                                     operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
                                                                       at an office of transit within the meaning of the
 1.     An individual guarantee furnished for a single                 second indent of Article 11 (d): in the Member
 Community transit operation shall be lodged at the                    State to which that office belongs ;
office of departure.
                                                                 ( c) where, in the course of a Community transit
                                                                       operation, the offence or irregularity is detected
2 . It may be a cash deposit. In such a case, the                      in the territory of a Member State elsewhere than
amount shall be fixed by the competent authorities of                  at an office of transit : in the Member State in
the Member States, and the guarantee must be                           which it is detected ;
 renewed at each office of transit within the meaning
of the first indent of Article 11 (d).                           (d ) where the consignment has not been produced at
                                                                       the office of destination : in the last Member State
                        Article 34
                                                                       which the means of transport or the goods are
                                                                       shown by the transit advice notes to have
                                                                       entered ;
Without prejudice to national provisions prescribing
other cases of exemption, the principal shall be                 (e) where the offence or irregularity is detected after
exempted by the competent authorities of the                           the Community transit operation has been
Member States from payment of duties and other                         concluded : in the Member State in which it is
charges in the case of:                                                detected .
(a) goods which have been destroyed as a result of
      force majeure or unavoidable accident duly
      proven ; or
                                                                                          Article 37
(b) officially recognised shortages arising from the            1.       The T1 documents issued in accordance with
      nature of the goods.
                                                                the rules , and the identification measures taken by
                                                                the customs authorities of one Member State, shall
                        Article 35                              have the same legal effects in other Member States as
                                                                the T1 documents issued in accordance with the rules
The guarantor shall be released from his obligations            and the identification measures taken by the customs
towards the Member States through which goods                   authorities of each of those Member States .
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2 . The findings of the competent authorities of a               regulation or administrative action in the Member
 Member State made when inspections are carried out              State of departure.
 under the Community transit procedure shall have
the same probative force in other Member States as               The customs office of export shall stamp the T2
findings of the competent authorities of each of those          document and return it to the exporter or his
Member States .                                                 representative, with the unused copies if he so
                                                                 requests . The stamped copy should be sent to the
                                                                office of entry in the neighbouring Member State. An
                          Article 38                            internal Community transit operation may begin at
                                                                 that office of entry, which shall then become the
Where necessary, the customs authorities of the                  office of departure.
Member States shall communicate to one another all
findings documents, reports, records of proceedings              2.    Up to and including 31 December 1970 the
and information relating to transport operations                forms T2 and T2 bis need not be used in the Member
carried out under the Community transit procedure               State of departure if it is intended to clear the goods
and to irregularities and offences in connection with           for home use at the office of entry of the
that procedure.                                                 neighbouring Member State. In such a case, a copy of
                                                                 the national export document stamped by the
                                                                customs office of export shall be substituted for the
                          TITLE III
                                                                 stamped copy prescribed in the third subparagraph of
                                                                 paragraph 1 .
       Procedure for internal Community transit
                                                                                         TITLE IV
                          Article 39
                                                                Special provisions applying to certain modes of
                                                                                         transport
1.     Goods    that  are    to   be carried    under  the
procedure for internal Community transit shall be
                                                                                         Article 42
covered by a T2 declaration. A T2 declaration is a
declaration on form T2 (see specimen in Annex C)
completed, where appropriate, by one or more forms              1.     The railway authorities of Member States shall
T2 bis (see specimen in Annex D ).                              be exempt from the requirement to furnish a
                                                                guarantee.
2.     Save as otherwise provided in Articles 40 and            2. The provisions of Article 19 (2) and (3 ) and of
41 , the provisions of Title II shall apply mutatis              Articles 21 and 22 shall not apply to the carriage of
mutandis to the procedure for internal Community                goods by rail .
transit.
                                                                3 . For purposes of application of Article 36 (2) (d),
                          Article 40                            the records kept by the railway authorities shall be
                                                                 substituted for transit advice notes .
No guarantee need be given for the part of a transit
operation between the office of departure and the                                       Article 43
first office of transit unless the law of the Member
State in the territory of which the office of departure          1.    No guarantee need be furnished for the carriage
is situated so requires .                                       of goods on the Rhine and the Rhine waterways.
                         Article 41                             2.     Each Member State may dispense with the
                                                                furnishing of a guarantee in respect of the carriage of
                                                                goods on other waterways situated in its territory. It
1.     Goods in respect of which export formalities are         shall forward details of the measures taken to that
carried out at a frontier customs office of the
                                                                effect to the Commission , which shall inform the
exporting Member State need not be dealt with under              other Member States .
the Community transit procedure at that office unless
they are subject to Community measures entailing
control of their use or destination .                                                   Article 44
In such a case, the only facts which need be given in            1.    The procedure for external Community transit
the T2 declaration are those required for export                 shall not be obligatory for the carriage of goods by
purposes by the provisions laid down by law.                     sea .
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The procedure for internal Community transit shall             2.       The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
not be compulsory for such carriage unless the goods           European Economic Community which concern the
are subject to Community measures entailing control            free movement of goods shall only apply to goods
of their use or destination .                                  contained in consignments sent from a post office
                                                               situated within the Community when no yellow label
2.      In cases where Community transit procedure is          of the type shown in Annex H is affixed to the
used for the carriage of goods wholly or partly by             packages or the accompanying documents. The
sea, no guarantee need be furnished to cover the sea           competent authorities of the Member State of
voyage .                                                       dispatch shall be responsible for affixing such a label
                                                               or causing it to be affixed to packages or to the
                       Article 45
                                                               accompanying documents unless the goods satisfy the
                                                               conditions laid down in Articles 9 and 10 of that
                                                               Treaty.
1 . The procedure for external Community transit
shall not be compulsory for the carriage of goods by
air.                                                                                      TITLE VI
The procedure for internal Community transit shall             Special provisions applying to goods carried by
not be compulsory for such carriage unless the goods                      travellers or contained in their luggage
are subject to Community measures entailing control
of their use or destination .
                                                                                          Article 49
2. In cases where Community transit procedure is
used for carriage wholly or partly by air, no                  1.       The Community transit procedure shall not be
guarantee need be furnished to cover the air portion           compulsory for the carriage of goods accompanying
of the journey of goods carried by airlines appearing          travellers or contained in their luggage, if the goods
on a list to be established under the procedure                concerned are not intended for commercial use.
prescribed in Article 58 .
                                                               2.       The provisions of the Treaty establishing the
                                                               European Economic Community which concern the
                        Article 46                             free movement of goods shall apply to goods which,
                                                               pursuant to paragraph 1 , are not carried under the
1.      The Community transit procedure shall not be           Community transit procedure :
compulsory for the carriage of goods by pipeline.
                                                               ( a ) if they are declared as Community goods and
2.      In cases where Community transit procedure is                 there is no doubt as to the accuracy of that
used for the carriage of goods by pipeline no                         declaration, and
guarantee need be furnished .                                         if their total value does not exceed three hundred
                                                                      units of account per traveller;
                        Article 47                             (b ) in other cases, if an internal Community transit
                                                                      document is produced proving the Community
The provisions of the Treaty establishing the                         nature of the goods .
European Economic Community concerning the free
movement of goods shall not apply to goods which,
pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 44                                         TITLE VII
( 1 ), the second subparagraph of Article 45 ( 1 ) or
Article 46 ( 1 ), do not circulate under the procedure                         Provisions relating to statistics
for internal Community transit, unless an internal
Community transit document is produced proving
                                                                                          Article 50
the Community nature of such goods.
                                                               Where the Community transit procedure is applied,
                         TITLE V                               transit and export statistics shall be based on it.
   Special provisions applying to postal consignments
                                                                                          Article 51
                        Article 48
                                                               1.       The Tl and T2 documents shall constitute the
1 . In derogation from the provisions of Article 1,            source of statistical information in respect of the
the Community transit procedure shall not apply to             movement of goods carried under the Community
postal consignments (including postal packages).               transit procedure.
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2 . Where the systems referred to in Article 7 ( 1 )             3 . The office of destination shall immediately send
and (2) are applied, the documents prescribed for                to the service responsible for external trade statistics
those systems shall constitute the source of                     in the Member State of destination the copy intended
information for trarsit statistics .                             for that service.
In the case referred to in the second subparagraph of
Article 7 ( 1 ), each Member State shall be responsible                                      TITLE VIII
for taking the necessary measures to secure statistical
information .                                                    Provisions relating to the Committee on Community
                                                                                              Transit
3.     If a single movement of goods gives rise
successively to the establishment of a national transit           1.     A       Committee      on     Community      Transit
document and to e. Tl or T2 document, only the                    (hereinafter called the ' Committee') is hereby set up,
latter documents shall        constitute  the   source  of
                                                                 consisting of representatives of the Member States
statistical information .
                                                                  with a representative of the Commission as
                                                                 Chairman .
                         Article 52
                                                                 2.      The Committee shall adopt its own rules of
The office of departuie shall , without delay, send a            procedure.
copy of that copy of the Tl or T2 documents
returned to it by the office of destination to the
service of the Member State of departure responsible                                         Article 57
for external trade statistics, after discharge of
document Tl or T2 .                                              The Committee may examine any question relating
                                                                 to the application of this Regulation submitted to it
                         Article 53                               by its Chairman either on his own initiative or at the
                                                                  request of the representative of a Member State.
The competent customs office shall send without
delay to the service in the exporting or re-exporting                                        Article 58
Member State responsible for external trade statistics,
the copy of the export or re-export document
intended for that service .                                      1.      The procedure laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3
                                                                  shall be followed for the adoption of the provisions
                                                                  necessary :
                         Article 54
                                                                  ( a) for the application of Articles 2, 4, 7, 8 , 9, 32, 34,
The principal or his authorised representative shall,                   35 , 41 , 45 , 55 and 60 ;
at the request of the national services responsible for           ( b) for the institution of the Community transit
external trade statstics, provide any information                       procedure so that certain Community measures
relating to the Tl cr T2 document necessary for the                     entailing control of the use or destination of the
compilation of such statistics .                                        goods may be applied ;
                         Article 55
                                                                  (c) for the simplification of formalities under the
                                                                        Community transit procedure, in particular in
                                                                        internal Community transit, or for their
1 . Up to and ircluding 31 December 1970 an                             adaptation to requirements arising from the
additional copy of the T 1 and T2 document shall be                     particular nature of certain goods ;
sent :
                                                                  ( d ) for the extension of the periods at the end of
( a) to each office of transit with the exception of the                which Article 7 (2), Article 15 ( 1 ), Article 41 (2)
      first and that referred to in the second indent of
                                                                        and Article 55 shall no longer apply, which
      Article 11 (d); end                                               periods must not be extended to more than
 ( b\ to the office of destination.                                     double those prescribed by those Articles .
2.     The office of transit shall, in accordance with           2.      The representative of the Commission shall
the provisions to be adopted under the procedure laid            submit to the Committee a draft of the provisions to
down in Article 58 , immediately send that copy to               be adopted. The Committee shall deliver an opinion
the service responsible for external trade statistics in          on the draft within a time limit set by the Chairman
the Member State which the means of transport has                 having regard to the urgency of the matter. Decisions
just left.                                                        shall be taken by a majority of twelve votes, the votes
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of the Member States being weighted as provided in               2. The specimens shown in the Annexes may be
Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The Chairman shall not            adapted, in accordance with the procedure laid down
vote .                                                           in Article 58, to requirements arising from the
                                                                 particular nature of certain goods or to technical
3 . ( a) The Commission shall adopt the provisions               requirements .
         envisaged if they are in accordance with the
         opinion of the Committee.
                                                                                         Article 61
    (b ) If the provisions envisaged are not in
         accordance with the Opinion of the
         Committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the           Each Member State shall inform the Commission of
         Commission shall without delay submit to the            the provisions which it adopts for the implementation
         Council a proposal with regard to the                   of this Regulation.
         provisions to be adopted. The Council shall
         act by a qualified majority.                            The Commission shall communicate this information
                                                                 to the other Member States .
    (c) If, within three months of the proposal being
         submitted to it, the Council has not acted, the
         proposed provisions shall be adopted by the
         Commission .                                                                    Article 62
                                                                 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the
                          TITLE IX
                                                                 third day following its publication in the Official
                                                                 Journal of the European Communities, with the
                       Final provisions                          exception of Article 1 (4), the first subparagraph of
                                                                 Article 2 (2), Article 7 (3 ) and Articles 50 to 55 which
                          Article 59                             shall enter into force on 1 January 1970.
In derogation       from     this   Regulation, Belgium,
Luxembourg and the Netherlands may apply to the                  2.    The    procedures     for    external and   internal
Community       transit     documents    the    agreements       Community transit shall apply to transit declarations
concluded or to be concluded between them with a                 registered at the offices of departure as from 1
view to reducing or abolishing frontier formalities at           January 1970.
the     Belgo-Luxembourg          and   Belgo-Netherlands
frontiers .                                                      However, goods the transport of which in the
                                                                 Community began before 1 January 1970 may be
                                                                 carried, up to and including 10 January 1970, in
                          Article 60                             accordance with a procedure other than that for
                                                                 external or internal Community transit. In such cases,
1.     The Annexes to this Regulation shall form an              the provisions of Article 1 (4) shall not apply to the
integral part thereof.                                           goods .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 18 March 1969 .
                                                                                        For the Council
                                                                                         The P " resident
                                                                                           M. MART
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                   ANNEX A
                 (Article 12 (1 ))
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                                                                                               BACK
                               EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
Results of examination :                            Seals affixed :
                                                    Time limit ( date ) :
                                                     Remarks :
                                       At .
                                                    ( place )             ( date ) Stamp and signature
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                                                                                                                                               BACK
                                                         EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
    Results of examinat on                                                            Seals affixed :
                                                                                      Time limit ( date ) :
                                                                                       Remarks :
                                                                     At
                                                                                     ( place )                    ( date )         Stamp and signature
                                           60 TRANSHIPMENTS AND OTHER INCIDENTS DURING CARRIAGE
                           DE~AILS AND MEASURES TAKEN '                                                        STAMP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITY
1 The name and address of any new carrier should in particular be stated .
                                                      EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
    Date of arrival :
    Examination of seals
    Remarks :
                                                                     At                                     on
                                                                                      ( place)                  ( date )           Stamp and signature
                                                            ( Space reserved for office of destination )
                                                              ( Space reserved for general purposes )
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                                                                                                                      BACK
                             EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
Date of arrival :
Examination of seals :
Remarks :
                                       At                               on
                                                        ( place )                        ( date )        Stamp and signature
Registered under no                                                      Returned to office of departure
                                 ( Space reserved for general purposes)
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                   ANNEX B
                 (Article 12 ( 1 ))
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                      ANNEX C
                     (Article 39 ( 1 ))
                                                 I
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                                                                                                      BACK
                                    EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
    Results of examination :                             Seals affixed :
                                                        Time limit ( date ) :
                                                         Remarks :
                                           At                               . on
                                                        ( place )                ( date ) Stamp and signature
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                                                                                                                                               BACK
                                                             EXAMINATION BY DEPARTURE OFFICE
       Results of examination :                                                         Seals affixed :
                                                                                        Time limit ( date) :
                                                                                        Remarks :
                                                                      At                                   on
                                                                                         ( place )               ( date )          Stamp ana signature
                                              60 TRANSHIPMENTS AND OTHER INCIDENTS DURING CARRIAGE
                                DETAILS AND MEASURES TAKEN 1                                                  STAMP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITY
   1 The name and address of any new carrier should in particular be stated .
                                                         EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
       Date of arrival :
       Examination of seals :
       Remarks :
                                                                      At                        .     ... on
                                                                                       ( place )               ( date )            Stamp and signature
                                                              ( Space reserved for office of destination )
                                                                ( Space reserved for general purposes )
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                                                                                                                BACK
                             EXAMINATION BY OFFICE OF DESTINATION
Date of arriva :
Examination of seats :
Remarks :
                                     At                        on
                                                 ( place )                    ( date )              Stamp and signature
Registered under No                                             Returned to the office of departure
                                            s
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                       ANNEX D
                     (Article 39 ( 1 ))
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                                                 ANNEX E
                                               (Article 22 ( 1))
                                       E.C.     C.E.      E.G.        E.F.
                                          COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                          TRANSIT ADVICE NOTE
Identification of means of transport
             TRANSIT DOCUMENT                                    Space reserved for customs use
    Type (_ 1 or T 2)      Office of Departure
                                                     Office of transit
                                                    Date of transit :
  -
                                                    At
                                                                           (place of signature)
                                                    Date
                                                                        Stamp and signature
                                                 ANNEX F
                                               Article 29 ( 1 ))
                                                 MODEL I
                                            E.C. C.E. E.G. E.F.
                                                 Guarantee
                 (Comprehensive guarantee covering several Community transit operations
I.   UNDERTAKING BY THE GUARANTOR
     1 . The undersigned                                                                            1
         resident at                                                                                2
         hereby jointly and severally guarantees, at the office of guarantee of
         up to a maximum of                                 in favour of the Kingdom of Belgium , the
         Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy
1 Surname and forenames, or name of firm.
- Full address .
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              of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands,1 the amounts for which the principal
                                         2, may be or become liable to the above-mentioned Member States
              of the European Communities by reason of infringements or irregularities committed in the
              course of a Community transit operation carried out by that person , including duties ,
              taxes, agricultural levies and other charges—with the exception of pecuniary penalties—
              as regards principal or further liabilities, expenses and incidentals.
          2. The undersigned undertakes to pay forthwith, upon the first application in writing by the
              competent authorities of the Member States referred to in paragraph 1 the sums requested
              up to the limit of the maximum amount aforesaid.
              This amount may not be reduced by the sums already paid in pursuance of this under­
              taking unless recourse is had to the undersigned in respect of a Community Transit
              operation which began before the thirtieth day following that of the receipt by the under­
              signed of previous application of applications.
          3 . This undertaking shall be valid from the day of its acceptance by the office of guarantee.
              This guarantee may be cancelled at any time by the undersigned, or by the State in the
              territory of which the office of guarantee is situated.
              The cancellation shall take effect on the sixteenth day after notification thereof to the other
              party .
              The undersigned shall remain responsbile for payment of the sums which become payable
              in respect of Community transit operations covered by this undertaking which began be­
              fore the date on which the cancellation took effect, even if the demand for payment is
              made after that date .
          4. For the purpose of this undertaking the undersigned gives his address for service3 as
                                                                                       and in each of the other Member
              States referred to in paragraph 1 as care of
                          Member State                     Surname and forenames , or name of firm, and full address
                2
                3
                5
    1 Delete the name of any Member State or States of which the territory will not be used .
    2 Surname and forenames, or name of firm , and full address of the principal .
    3 If, in the law of the Member State, there is no provision for address for service the guarantor shall appoint, in each
      of the Member States referred to in paragraph 1 , an agent authorised to receive any communications addressed to him .
      The courts of the places in which the addresses for service of the guarantor or of his agents are situated shall have
      jurisdiction in disputes concerning this guarantee. The acknowledgment in the second subparagraph and the under­
      taking in the fourth subparagraph of paragraph 4 must be made to correspond .
    4 Full address .
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        The undersigned acknowledges that all correspondence and notices and any formalities
        or procedure relating to this undertaking addressed to or effected in writing at one of his
        addresses for service shall be accepted as duly delivered to him .
        The undersigned acknowledges the jurisdiction of the courts of the places where he has an
        address for service. »
        The undersigned undertakes to maintain his address for service or, if he has to alter one
        o - more of those addresses, to inform the office of guarantee in advance.
                                                               Done at                       on
                                                                                   Signature1
 II. ACCEPTANCE BY THE OFFICE OF GUARANTEE
     Office of Guarantee
     Guarantor's undertaking accepted on the
                                                                            Stamp and signature
1 The signature must be preceded by the following in the signatory's own handwriting : ' Guarantee for the amount of
                       * with the amount written out in full .
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                                                           MODEL II
                                                    E.C.    C.E.    E.G.    E.F.
                                                 COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                                            Guarantee
                              (Guarantee covering a single Community transit operation)
     I.   UNDERTAKING BY THE GUARANTOR
          1 . The undersigned
              resident at
              hereby jointly and severally guarantees, at the office of departure of
              in favour of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French
              Republic, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the
              Netherlands,3 the amounts for which the principal                                                    4, may be
              or become liable to the above-mentioned Member States of the European Communties,
              by reason of infringements or irregularities committed in the course of a Community transit
              operation carried out by that person from the office of departure of
              to the office of destination of
              in respect of the goods designated hereinafter, includiing duties, taxes, agricultural levies and
              other charges—with the exception of pecuniary penalties—as regards principal or
              further liabilities , expenses and incidentals .
          2. The undersigned undertkakes to pay forthwith the sums requested upon the first appli­
              cation in writing by the competent authorities of the Member States referred to in para­
              graph 1 .
          3 . This undertaking shall be valid from the day of its acceptance by the office of departure.
          4. For the purposes of this undertaking, the undersigned gives his address for service5 as
                                                                                                                              6
              and , in each of the other Member States referred to in paragraph 1 , as care of
    1 Surname and forenames , or name of firm .
    - Full address .
    3 Delete the name of any Member State or States of which the territory is not to be used .
    4 Surname and forenames, or name of firm , and full address of the principal .
    5 If, in the law of the Member State , there is no provision for address for service, the guarantor shall appoint, in each
      of the Member States referred to in paragraph 1 , an agent authorised to receive any communications addressed to him .
      The courts of the places in which the addresses for service of the guarantor or of his agents are situated shall have
      jurisdiction in disputes concerning this guarantee. The acknowledgement in the second subparagraph and the under­
      taking in the fourth subparagraph of paragraph 4 must be made to correspond .
    6 Full address .
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                      Member State                     Surname and forenames , or name of firm , and full address
            1
            ■>
            3
           4
            S
         The undersigned acknowledges that all correspondence and notices and any formalities or
         procedures relating to this undertaking addressed to or effected in writing at one of his
         addresses for service shall be accepted as duly delivered to him .
         The undersigned acknowledges the jurisdiction of the courts of the places where he has
         an address for service.
         The undersigned undertakes to maintain his addresses for service or, if he has to alter one
         or more of those addresses, to advise the office of departure in advance.
                                               Done at                                   on
                                                                                     Signature1
II . ACCEPTANCE BY THE OFFICE OF DEPARTURE
     Office of Departure
     Guarantor's undertaking accepted on the
     to cover the Community transit operation under T1 /T2,2
     issued on                                       under No
                                                                                 Stamp and signature
1 The signature must be preceded by the following in the signatory 's own hand , handwriting ' Guarantee'.
* Delete as appropriate.
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                                                          ANNEX G
                                                        (Article 30 (3))
                                                 E.C.     C.E.     E.G.     E.F.
                                               COMMUNITY TRANSIT
                                            GUARANTEE CERTIFICATE
    The office of guarantee                                                                                       1
    certifies that2
    in respect of whom3
    jointly and severally guarantees up to a maximum amount of
                                                      (in figures and words)
    has obtained on
    provisional authorisation for Community transit operations in the following
    Member States of the European Communties :
                                             Done at                                                 on
                                                                     ( place of signature)                 (date)
                                                                                       Stamp and signature
    N.B. If the provisional authorisation is revoked, this certificate must be returned without delay
            to the office of guarantee.
    1 Full address and Member State.
    2 Surname and forenames, or name of firm , and full address of principal .
    3 Surname and forenames , or name of firm , and full address.
    4 Number written out in full .
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List of persons authorised to sign Community transit declarations on behalf of the principal
            Surname and forename                                    Specimen signature
                                      Agreed herewith :
                               at                                         , on
                                          ( place of signature )                           (date)
                                                                            Signature or principal
N.B. The unused portion of the list must be cancelled .
                                         ANNEX H
                                       (Article 48 ( 2))
                                     YELLOW LABEL
       E.C.                     C.E.                             E.G.                          E.F.
       Goods not fulfilling the conditions laid down in Articles 9 and 10 of the
                 Treaty establishing the European Economic Community