Article 1U.K.
For exportation to the United States of America (including Puerto Rico and Hawaii) of cheeses ‘Swiss or Emmentaler cheese with eye formation’ which fall within subheadings 0406.90.44 to 0406.90.48 of the Harmonised Tariff Schedule of the United States and are subject to quota restrictions, the competent authority of the exporting Member State shall issue, at the exporter’s request, a certificate corresponding to the model in Annex I.
Article 2U.K.
1.Forms referred to in Article 1 shall be printed on white paper of format 210 × 296 millimetres and shall be worded in English. Each certificate shall be given a serial number by the issuing authority. Exporting Member States may require that the certificates issued on their territory be worded in their official language, or in one of their official languages, in addition to English.
2.Each certificate shall be made out in an original and in at least two copies. The copies shall bear the same serial number as the original. The original and the copies shall be completed in typescript or by hand, in block letters in ink.
Article 3U.K.
1.The certificate and its copy shall be issued by the authority designated for this purpose by the exporting Member State.
2.The issuing authority shall retain a copy of the certificate. The original and the other copy shall be presented at the Community customs office at which the export declaration is lodged.
3.The customs office mentioned in paragraph 2 shall complete the appropriate section on the original and return it to the exporter or to his representative. It shall retain the copy.
Article 4U.K.
The certificate shall not be valid until it has been duly stamped by the customs office. It shall cover the quantity of cheese indicated thereon and must be presented to the customs authorities of the United States of America. However, a quantity exceeding by no more than 5 % that indicated on the certificate shall be regarded as covered by it.
Article 5U.K.
The Member States shall take all necessary measures to check the origin, type, composition and quality of the cheeses for which certificates are issued.
Article 6U.K.
Regulation (EEC) No 2248/85 is repealed.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.
Article 7U.K.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 8 April 2009.
For the Commission
Mariann Fischer Boel
Member of the Commission