Article 19g Access to Appendix C certificates etc.F1

Where a competent authority of a member State requests electronic access to an Appendix C certificate for a GB Annex 15 wine exported from Great Britain to the member State, the appropriate authority must, where possible, provide electronic access to the relevant Appendix C certificate, or electronic access to the data on which the certificate is based, to the competent authority.

Where a request of the type specified in paragraph 1 has been made by a competent authority of a member State and there is no electronic system in place by which access to the Appendix C certificate, or the data on which the certificate is based, can be provided to the competent authority electronically, or it is not otherwise possible to provide electronic access as requested, the appropriate authority must provide the competent authority with a copy of the Appendix C certificate, or the data on which the certificate is based, in the form of a paper document.

In this Article, ‘the appropriate authority’ means: