# Council Decision (EU) 2019/2208 of 9 December 2019 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the EPA Committee established under the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Ghana, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, as regards the adoption of Protocol No. 1 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation, Article 17: General conditions


1. Products originating in the European Union, when imported into Ghana, shall benefit from the provisions of the Agreement, upon presentation, in the cases referred to in Article 21(1), of a declaration, hereinafter referred to as “origin declaration”, given by the exporter on an invoice, delivery note or other commercial document which describes the products concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified; the text of the origin declaration appears in Annex IV to this Protocol.
2. Products originating in Ghana shall, on importation into the European Union benefit from the provisions of the Agreement upon submission of either:
(a) a movement certificate EUR.1, a specimen of which appears in Annex III to this Protocol; or
(b) in the cases specified in Article 21(1) of this Protocol, a declaration, subsequently referred to as the “origin declaration”, given by the exporter on an invoice, a delivery note or any other commercial document which describes the products concerned in sufficient detail to enable them to be identified; the text of the origin declaration appears in Annex IV to this Protocol.
3. Without prejudice to point (c) of Article 42(3), provisions under paragraph 2(a) of this Article will be enforceable until three years after the entry into force of this Protocol. After that period, only the provisions under paragraph 2(b) of this Article shall apply.
4. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article, originating products within the meaning of this Protocol shall, in the cases specified in Article 26 hereof, benefit from the Agreement without it being necessary to submit any of the documents referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.
5. For the purposes of applying the provisions of this title, exporters shall endeavour to use a language shared by Ghana and the European Union.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/2208/attachment/2/article/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2208/attachment-2/article-17
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