# Council Regulation (EC) No 1340/2008 of 8 December 2008 on trade in certain steel products between the European Community and the Republic of Kazakhstan, Article 9

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The export licence referred to in Article 6 may include additional copies duly indicated as such. The export licence and the copies thereof as well as the certificate of origin and the copies thereof shall be drawn up in English.
2. If the documents referred to in paragraph 1 are completed by hand, entries must be in ink and in block letters.
3. The export licences or equivalent documents shall measure 210 × 297 mm. The paper shall be white writing paper, sized, not containing mechanical pulp and weighing not less than 25 g/m2. Each part shall have a printed guilloche pattern background making any falsification by mechanical or chemical means apparent to the eye.
4. Only the original shall be accepted by the competent authorities in the Community as being valid for import purposes in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation.
5. Each export licence or equivalent document shall bear a standardised serial number, whether or not printed, by which it can be identified.
6. The serial number shall be composed of the following elements:
two letters identifying the exporting country as follows:
KZ = Republic of Kazakhstan,
two letters identifying the Member State of intended destination as follows:
BE = Belgium
BG = Bulgaria
CZ = Czech Republic
DK = Denmark
DE = Germany
EE = Estonia
IE = Ireland
GR = Greece
ES = Spain
FR = France
HR = Croatia
IT = Italy
CY = Cyprus
LV = Latvia
LT = Lithuania
LU = Luxembourg
HU = Hungary
MT = Malta
NL = Netherlands
AT = Austria
PL = Poland
PT = Portugal
RO = Romania
SI = Slovenia
SK = Slovakia
FI = Finland
SE = Sweden
GB = United Kingdom,
a one-digit number identifying the quota year corresponding to the last figure in the year in question, e.g. ‘ 9 ’ for 2009,
a two-digit number identifying the issuing office in the exporting country,
a five-digit number running consecutively from 00 001 to 99 999 allocated to the specific Member State of destination.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1340/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1340/article-9
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