Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1081/2012Show full title

Article 6

1. The applicant shall complete boxes 1, 3, 6 to 21, 24 and, if necessary, 25 of the application and the other sheets, except where pre-printing of the box or boxes is authorised.

However, Member States may provide that only the application need be completed.

2. The application shall be accompanied by:

(a) documentation providing all relevant information on the cultural object(s) and its (their) legal status at the time when the application is made, by means of any supporting documents (invoices, expert appraisals etc.) where appropriate;

(b) a duly authenticated photograph or, where appropriate and at the discretion of the competent authorities, photographs in black and white or in colour (measuring at least 8 cm by 12 cm) of the cultural goods in question.

This requirement may be replaced, where appropriate and at the discretion of the competent authorities, by a detailed list of the cultural goods.

3. The competent authorities may require, for the purposes of issuing an export licence, the physical presentation of the cultural goods to be exported.

4. Any costs incurred by the application of paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be met by the applicant requesting the export licence.

5. In order that an export licence may be granted, the duly completed form shall be presented to the competent authorities designated by the Member States pursuant to Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 116/2009. When the authority has granted the export licence, sheet 1 shall be kept by that authority and the remaining sheets shall be returned to the holder of the export licence or to his authorised representative.