Article 30 Information procedure for cumulation purposes

When Articles 3(1), 4(1) and 5 are applied, the evidence of originating status within the meaning of this Protocol, of the materials coming from an ESA State, from the Community, from another ACP State, an OCTs or from another country with which cumulation is applicable shall be given by a movement certificate EUR.1 or by the supplier’s declaration, a specimen of which appears in Annex V A to this Protocol, given by the exporter in the State or in the Community from which the materials came.

When Articles 3(4) and 4(4) are applied, the evidence of the working or processing carried out in an ESA State, in the Community, in another ACP State or in an OCTs shall be given by the supplier’s declaration a specimen of which appears in Annex V B to this Protocol, given by the exporter in the State or in the Community from which the materials came.

A separate supplier’s declaration shall be made up by the supplier for each consignment of goods on the commercial invoice related to that shipment or in an annex to that invoice, or on a delivery note or other commercial document related to that shipment which describes the materials concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified.

The supplier’s declaration may be made out on a preprinted form.

The suppliers’ declarations shall bear the origįnal signature of the supplier in manuscript. However, where the invoice and the supplier’s declaration are established using electronic data processing methods, the supplier’s declaration need not be signed in manuscript provided the responsible official in the supplying company is identified to the satisfaction of the customs authorities in the State where the suppliers’ declarations are established. The said customs authorities may lay down conditions for the implementation of this paragraph.

The supplier’s declarations shall be submitted to the customs authorities in the exporting country requested to issue the movement certificate EUR.1.

The supplier making out a declaration must be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of the country where the declaration is made out, all appropriate documents proving that the information given on this declaration is correct.

Suppliers’ declarations made and information certificates issued before the date of entry into force of this Protocol in accordance with Article 26 of Protocol 1 to the Cotonou Agreement shall remain valid.