Article 17 General requirements

Products originating in the European Union shall, on importation into Côte d'Ivoire, benefit from the Agreement upon the submission of an origin declaration, in the cases specified in Article 21(1) of this Protocol, given by the exporter on an invoice, delivery note or any other commercial document which describes the products concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified (an ‘ origin declaration ’ ). The text of the origin declaration appears in Annex IV.

Products originating in Côte d'Ivoire shall, on importation into the European Union, benefit from the provisions of this Agreement upon submission of either:

1. (a)

   a movement certificate EUR.1, a specimen of which appears in Annex III to this Protocol;

2. (b)

   in the cases specified in Article 21(1) of this Protocol, an origin declaration, the text of which appears in Annex IV to this Protocol.

Point (a) of paragraph 2 shall apply for a period of three years from the entry into force of this Protocol. At the expiry of that period, only point (b) of paragraph 2 shall apply.

By way of derogation from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, originating products within the meaning of this Protocol shall, in the cases specified in Article 26, benefit from the Agreement without it being necessary to submit any of the documents referred to in paragraphs 1 or 2.

For the purposes of applying the provisions of this Title, exporters shall endeavour to use a language shared by Côte d'Ivoire and the European Union.