# Council Decision (EU) 2019/1355 of 15 July 2019 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union in the EPA Committee established under the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d’Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of Protocol 1 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation, Article 27: Information procedure for cumulation purposes


1. When Article 7(1) of this Protocol is applied, the evidence of originating status within the meaning of this Protocol of the materials from Côte d'Ivoire, from the European Union, from another ACP State having applied an EPA at least on a provisional basis or from an OCT shall be provided by a movement certificate EUR.1, an origin declaration or the supplier's declaration, a specimen of which appears in Annex V-A, given by the exporter in Côte d'Ivoire or in the European Union from which the materials came.
2. When Article 7(1) of this Protocol is applied, the evidence of the working or processing carried out in Côte d'Ivoire, in the European Union, in another ACP State having applied an EPA at least on a provisional basis or in an OCT 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 Côte d'Ivoire or in the European Union from which the materials came.
3. When Article 8(1) of this Protocol is applied, the supporting documents required to prove origin shall be determined in accordance with the rules applicable to GSP beneficiary countries.
4. When Article 8(2) of this Protocol is applied, the supporting documents required to prove origin shall be determined in accordance with the rules laid down in the arrangements or agreements concerned.
5. A separate supplier's declaration shall be made out by the supplier for each consignment of goods on the commercial invoice related to that consignment or in an annex to that invoice, or on a delivery note or any other commercial document related to that consignment which describes the materials concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified.
6. The supplier's declaration may be made out on a pre-printed form.
7. The suppliers' declarations shall bear the original 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 in which the supplier's declaration is drawn up. Those customs authorities may lay down conditions for the implementation of this paragraph.
8. The supplier's declarations shall be submitted to the customs authorities in the exporting country that has been requested to issue the movement certificate EUR.1.
9. 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.
10. 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1355/attachment/2/article/27 (the official version)
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