Article 24

The application for a refund certificate and the refund certificate itself shall be based on the form ‘Export Licence or Advance Fixing Certificate’ set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 and shall indicate the amount in euros.

Those documents shall be completed in accordance with the instructions set out in Annex VI to this Regulation.

Where the applicant does not have the intention to export from a Member State other than that in which he is applying for the refund certificate, the competent authority may keep the ensuing refund certificate, notably in electronic format. In such cases, the competent authority shall inform the applicant that his refund certificate has been registered and provide him with the information set out on the holder’s copy of the refund certificate, hereinafter ‘Copy No 1’. The issuing authorities’ copy of the refund certificate, hereinafter ‘Copy No 2’, shall not be issued.

The competent authority shall record all the information from the refund certificates referred to in Sections III and IV of Annex VI and the amounts claimed under the certificate.