Article 18 General requirements

Products originating in an ESA State shall, on importation into the Community and products originating in the Community shall, on importation into an ESA State, benefit from the provisions of the Agreement upon submission of either:

1. (a)

   a movement certificate EUR.1, a specimen of which appears in Annex III; or

2. (b)

   in the cases specified in Article 23(1), a declaration, subsequently referred to as the ‘invoice declaration’, given by the exporter on an invoice, a delivery note or any other commercial document which describes the products concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified; the text of the invoice declaration appears in Annex IV.

Notwithstanding paragraph 1, originating products within the meaning of this Protocol shall, in the cases specified in Article 29, benefit from the Agreement without it being necessary to submit any of the documents referred to above.

Upon notification in the Customs Cooperation Committee, products originating in one Party shall on importation into the other Party benefit from the preferential tariff treatment of this Agreement upon submission of an invoice declaration made out as provided for in Article 23 by an exporter registered in accordance with the relevant legislation of the Parties. Such notification shall stipulate that paragraph 1(a) and (b), shall cease to apply.

For the purpose of applying the provisions of this Title, the exporters shall endeavour to use a language common to both the ESA States and the Community.