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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-2208/attachment-2/article-21",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/2208",
  "legislation_title": "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",
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  "path": "attachment/2/article/21",
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  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Conditions for making out an origin declaration",
  "text": "1. An origin declaration may be made out:\n(a) as referred to in Article 17(1) of this Protocol by a registered exporter in conformity with the internal legislation of the European Union;\n(b) in the cases referred to point (b) of Article 17(2):\n(i) up to three years after the entry into force of this Protocol, by an exporter as provided for in Article 22;\n(ii) three years after the entry into force of this Protocol, by a registered exporter in accordance with the internal legislation of Ghana;\n(c) by any exporter for any consignment consisting of one or more packages containing originating products whose total value does not exceed EUR 6 000.\n2. An origin declaration may be made out if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in Ghana, the European Union or in one of the other countries referred to in Articles 6, 7 and 8 of this Protocol and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol.\n3. The exporter making out an origin declaration shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of the exporting country, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol.\n4. An origin declaration shall be made out by the exporter by typing, stamping or printing on the invoice, the delivery note or another commercial document, the declaration, the text of which appears in Annex IV to this Protocol, using one of the linguistic versions set out in that Annex and in accordance with the provisions of the domestic law of the exporting country. If the declaration is handwritten, it shall be written in ink in printed characters.\n5. Origin declarations shall bear the original signature of the exporter in manuscript. However, origin declarations shall not be signed by a registered exporter within the meaning of paragraph 1 of this Article or by an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 22 of this Protocol provided that the approved exporter gives the customs authorities of the exporting country a written undertaking that he accepts full responsibility for any origin declaration which identifies him as if it had been signed in manuscript by him.\n6. An origin declaration may be made out by the exporter when the products to which it relates are exported, or after exportation on condition that it is presented in the importing country no longer than two (2) years after the importation of the products to which it relates.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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