Article 13 The customs supervising office

Without prejudice to Article 14 (5), the customs office indicated in the prior authorization, competent for the handling of the economic outward processing arrangements and to be called the ‘customs supervising office’, will control the functioning of the arrangements, notably on the basis of:

It shall inform the competent authorities if it becomes aware that less than the quantities corresponding to the allocated quantities are exported.

Member States may charge the authorities competent for the issuing of prior authorizations with some or all the functions of the customs supervising office.