1.Exporters shall keep detailed registers or records of their exports, in accordance with the practice in force in the respective Member States. Such registers or records shall include in particular commercial documents such as invoices, manifests and transport and other dispatch documents containing sufficient information to allow the following to be identified:
(a)the description of the dual-use items;
(b)the quantity of the dual-use items;
(c)the name and address of the exporter and of the consignee;
(d)where known, the end-use and end-user of the dual-use items.
2.The registers or records and the documents referred to in paragraph 1 shall be kept for at least three years from the end of the calendar year in which the export took place. They shall be produced to the competent authorities of the Member State in which the exporter is established on request.
In order to ensure that this Regulation is properly applied, each Member State shall take whatever measures are needed to permit its competent authorities:
to gather information on any order or transaction involving dual-use items;
to establish that the export control measures are being properly applied, which may include in particular the power to enter the premises of persons with an interest in an export transaction.