PART IICUSTOMS-APPROVED TREATMENT OR USE
TITLE IITRANSIT
CHAPTER 12Provisions relating to documents (Control copy T5) to be used for applying Community measures involving controls on the use and/or destination of goods
Article 482
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Where goods move under a Community transit procedure, or under another customs transit procedure, the control copy T5 shall be issued by the office of departure. The office of departure shall keep a copy of control copy T5. The original of control copy T5 shall accompany the goods at least to the office at which the use and/or destination of the goods is certified under the same conditions as the document relating to the transit procedure used.
2
Where goods subject to controls as to their use and/or destination are not placed under a transit procedure, a control copy T5 shall be issued by the competent authorities of the Member State of consignment. They shall keep a copy of control copy T5.
The control copy T5 shall contain one of the phrases referred to in Article 481 (3).
3
Control copy T5 and, where necessary, form(s) T5 bis and/or loading list(s) T5 shall be authenticated by the competent authorities of the Member State of departure. Such authentication shall comprise the following, which should appear in box A (office of departure) of those documents:
a
in the case of control copy T5, the name and stamp of the office of departure, the signature of the competent person, the date of authentication and a registration number which may be pre-printed;
b
in the case of form T5 bis and/or loading list T5, the number appearing on the control copy T5. That number shall be inserted either by means of a stamp incorporating the name of the office of departure or by hand. In the latter case it shall be accompanied by the official stamp of the said office.
The originals of these documents shall be returned to the person concerned as soon as all administrative formalities have been completed.
4
The goods and the original control copies T5 shall be presented at the office of destination.