# 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 36: Verification of suppliers' declarations


1. Verification of suppliers' declarations shall be carried out on the basis of risk analysis, by random sampling or whenever the customs authorities of the country where such declarations have been taken into account to issue a movement certificate EUR.1 or to make out an origin declaration have reasonable doubts as to the authenticity of the document or the accuracy of the information given in this document.
2. The customs authorities to which a supplier's declaration is submitted may request the customs authorities of the State where the declaration was made out to issue an information certificate, a specimen of which appears in Annex VI to this Protocol. Alternatively, the certifying authorities to which a supplier's declaration is submitted may request that the exporter produce an information certificate issued by the customs authorities of the State where the declaration was made out.
A copy of the information certificate shall be preserved by the office which has issued it for at least three (3) years.
3. The customs authorities requesting the verification shall be informed of the results thereof as soon as possible. The results must indicate clearly whether the information given in the supplier's declaration is correct and make it possible for them to determine whether and to what extent this supplier's declaration could be taken into account for issuing a movement certificate EUR.1 or for making out an origin declaration.
4. The verification shall be carried out by the customs authorities of the country where the supplier's declaration was made out. For this purpose, they shall have the right to call for any evidence or to carry out any inspection of the supplier's account or any other check which they consider appropriate in order to verify the accuracy of the supplier's declaration.
5. Any movement certificate EUR.1 or origin declaration issued or made out on the basis of an inaccurate supplier's declaration shall be considered null and void.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1355/attachment/2/article/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1355/attachment-2/article-36
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