1.The operator shall submit to the competent authorities indicated by the Member States a declaration stating his intention to bone either forequarters or hindquarters as referred to in Article 1 under the terms of this Regulation and to export, subject to Article 7, the entire quantity of boned cuts obtained, each cut being individually packaged.
2.The declaration shall, in particular, describe and state the quantity of the products to be boned.
It shall be accompanied by a certificate, a model of which is set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 433/2007, issued in accordance with the provisions of the first subparagraph of Article 2(2) of that Regulation. However, Notes B and C and box 11 of that certificate shall not apply. The provisions of Article 3 of that Regulation shall be applicable mutatis mutandis until the products are placed under supervision as referred to in paragraph 3 of this present Article.
3.On the declaration's being accepted by the competent authorities, who shall insert thereon the date of acceptance, the quarters to be boned shall be placed under the supervision of those authorities, who shall establish the net weight of the products and enter this in box 7 of the certificate referred to in paragraph 2.