Division General

To positively select any option, please tick or mark the relevant box with a cross (X).

Whenever mentioned, ‘ISO’ means the international standard two-letter code for a country, in accordance with the international standard ISO 3166 alpha-2^f1.

Only one of the options may be selected in boxes I.15, I.18, I.20.

Unless otherwise indicated, the boxes are compulsory.

If the consignee, the entry border control post (BCP) or the transport details (that is to say, the means and date) change after the certificate has been issued, the operator responsible for the consignment must advise the competent authority F1... of entry. Such a change shall not result in a request for a replacement certificate.

In case the certificate is submitted in F2the appropriate computerised management information system, the following applies:

• the entries or boxes specified in Part I constitute the data dictionaries for the electronic version of the official certificate;

• the sequences of boxes in Part I of the model official certificate and the size and shape of those boxes are indicative;

• where a stamp is required, its electronic equivalent is an electronic seal. Such seal shall comply with the rules for the issuance of electronic certificates referred to in point (f) of the first paragraph of Article 90 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.