Article 33 Notification of customs authorities

X11.

Côte d'Ivoire and the Member States of the European shall provide each other, via the European Commission and the EPA National Commission, with the addresses of the customs authorities competent to issue and verify movement certificates EUR.1, origin declarations and supplier's declarations, and with specimens of the stamps used in the customs offices for the issue of those certificates.

Movement certificates EUR.1 and origin declarations or supplier's declarations shall be accepted for the purpose of applying preferential treatment from the date the information is received by the European Commission and the EPA National Commission.

Côte d'Ivoire and the Member States of the European Union shall immediately inform each other of any change in the information referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.

The authorities referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall act under the authority of the government of the country concerned. The authorities in charge of control and verification shall be part of the governmental authorities of the country concerned.

Annotations

Editorial notes

X1: Substituted by Corrigendum to 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 (Official Journal of the European Union L 222 of 26 August 2019).