Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2128Show full title

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2128 of 12 November 2019 establishing the model official certificate and rules for issuing official certificates for goods which are delivered to vessels leaving the Union and intended for ship supply or consumption by the crew and passengers, or to NATO or a United States’ military base (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 3U.K.Requirements for official certificates which are not submitted in IMSOC

Official certificates which are not submitted in IMSOC shall meet the following requirements:

1.

in addition to the signature of the certifying officer, the official certificate shall bear an official stamp. The colour of the signature and stamp shall be different to the colour of the printing.

2.

where the official certificate contains statements, statements which are not relevant shall be crossed out, initialled and stamped by the certifying officer, or completely removed from the certificate.

3.

the official certificate shall consist of:

(a)

a single sheet of paper; or

(b)

several sheets of paper where all sheets are indivisible and constitute an integral whole; or

(c)

a sequence of pages numbered so as to indicate that it is a particular page in a finite sequence.

4.

Where the official certificate consists of a sequence of pages, each page must indicate the unique code as referred to in Article 89(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and bear the signature of the certifying officer and the official stamp.

5.

The official certificate shall be issued before the consignments to which it relates leave the control of the competent authorities at the border control post or at the warehouse.