1.A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued on written application by the exporter or, under the exporter's responsiblity, his authorized representative. Such application shall be made on a form, a specimen of which appears in Annex 21, which shall be completed in accordance with the provision of this subsection.
Applications for movement certificates EUR.1 must be kept for at least two years by the Chambers of Commerce of the Occupied Territories.
2.The exporter or his representative shall submit with his request any appropriate supporting document proving that the products to be exported are such as to qualify for the issue of a movement certificate EUR.1.
He shall undertake to submit, at the request of the competent authorities, any supplementary evidence they may require for the purpose of establishing the correctness of the originating status of the products eligible for preferential treatment and shall undertake to agree to any inspection of his accounts and to any check on the circumstances in which the products were obtained by the said authorities.
3.A movement certificate EUR.1 may be issued only where it can serve as the documentary evidence required for the purposes of implementing the tariff preferences referred to in Article 98.
4.The movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the Chambers of Commerce of the Occupied Territories or by the customs authorities of the exporting Member State, if the goods to be exported can be considered originating products within the meaning of this section.
5.Since the movement certificate EUR.1 constitutes the documentary evidence for the application of the preferential arrangements laid down, it shall be the responsibility of the Chambers of Commerce of the Occupied Territories or of the customs authorities of the exporting Member State to take any steps necessary to verify the origin of the goods and to check the other statements on the certificate.
6.For the purpose of verifying whether the conditions stated in paragraph 4 have been met, the Chambers of Commerce of the Occupied Territories or the customs authorities of the exporting Member State shall have the right to call for any documentary evidence or to carry out any check which they consider appropriate.
7.It shall be the responsibility of the Chambers of Commerce of the Occupied Territories or the customs authorities of the exporting Member State to ensure that the forms referred to in paragraph 1 are duly completed. In particular, they shall check whether the space reserved for the description of the products has been completed in such a manner as to exclude all possibility of fraudulent additions. To this end, the description of the products shall be indicated without leaving any blank lines. Where the space is not completely filled a horizontal line shall be drawn below the last line of the description, the empty space being crossed through.
8.The date of issue of the movement certificate must be indicated in the part of the certificate reserved for the customs authorities.
9.A movement certificate EUR.1 shall be issued by the Chambers of Commerce of the Occupied Territories or by the customs authorities of the exporting Member State when the products to which it relates are exported. It shall be made available to the exporter as soon as export has actually been carried out or ensured.