CELEX: 21974D0813(12)
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Decision No 2/74 of the EEC-NORWAY Joint Committee establishing a simplified procedure for the issue of EUR.1 movement certificates

No L 224/28                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                   13 . 8 . 74
                                 DECISION No 2/74 OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE
                   establishing a simplified procedure for the issue of EUR.l movement certificates
THE JOINT COMMITTEE,                                            2.      The   Customs    authorities   shall   refuse   such
                                                                authorization to exporters who do not offer all the
                                                                guarantees which they consider necessary.
Having regard to the Agreement between the
European Economic Community and the Kingdom of
Norway, signed in Brussels on 14 May 1973 ;                    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'            or no longer offers the guarantees referred to in the
and methods of administrative cooperation, and in               preceding paragraphs .
particular Articles 16 and 28 thereof;
Whereas the formalities relating to the issue of EUR.l                                   Article 4
movement certificates may be considerably eased in
the cases of exporters making frequent shipments ;              1.      The authorization shall stipulate, at the choice
whereas the conditions and detailed rules for easing            of the Customs authorities , that box No 11 , ' Customs
the formalities must be laid down,                              Endorsement', of the EUR.l 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
By way of derogation from Article 8 ( 1 ), (2) and (5 ),        (b ) be endorsed by the approved exporter with a
and Articles 9 and 10 of Protocol No 3 , a simplified                 special stamp which has been approved by the
procedure for the issue of EUR.l movement                             Customs authorities of the exporting State and
certificates is hereby established in accordance with                  corresponds to the specimen given in the Annex ;
the following provisions .                                            this stamp may be preprinted on the forms .
                         Article 2                              2.      In the cases referred to in paragraph 1 ( a), one
                                                                 of the following phrases shall be entered in box
                                                                No 7, 'Remarks', of the EUR.l movement certificate :
The Customs authorities in the exporting State may              'Simplified procedure',          'Forenklet procedure',
authorize any exporter, hereinafter referred to as              'Vereinfachtes Verfahren', 'Procedure simplifiee',
' approved exporter', who satisfies the conditions set          'Procedura semplificata', 'Vereenvoudigde procedure',
out in Article 3 and who intends to carry out                   'Forenklet prosedyre'.
transactions for which EUR.l 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.l movement                  Customs authorities of the exporting State may
certificate relating to those goods, for the purpose of         prescribe the use of EUR.l movement certificates
obtaining an EUR.l movement certificate under the               bearing a distinctive sign by which they may be
conditions laid down in Article 8 of Protocol No 3 .            identified .
                         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.l 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
                                                                                        Article 8
      Customs authority competent to carry out the
      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.      The approved exporter may be required to                they consider necessary. The approved exporter must
                                                                allow this to be done .
inform the Customs authorities, in accordance with
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         Norway on customs formalities and the use of
Article 4 ( 1 ) ( b ), which may be preprinted on the           customs documents .
form .
                          Article 7                                                     Article 1 1
 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 7/73 of the Joint
by the approved exporter.                                       Committee are used .
                Done at Brussels, 8 July 1974.
                                                                                  For the Joint Committee
                                                                                       The Chairman
                                                                                    R. de KERGORLAY
                           The Secretaries
                S. ENDRESEN         J. von GRUMME
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                                                    ANNEX
             W Initials or coat of arms of the exporting State.
             (2 ) Such information as is necessary for the identification of the approved exporter.