Article 1Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008
Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 is amended as follows:
in Article 11, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
‘1.The Commission shall consider whether to include a control body or control authority in the list provided for in Article 10 upon receipt of a request thereto from the representative of the control body or control authority concerned on the basis of the model of application made available by the Commission in accordance with Article 17(2). Only complete requests that have been submitted by 30 June 2020 shall be taken into account for updating the list.’;
in Article 13(2), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘The certificate of inspection shall be issued by the relevant control authority or control body before the consignment leaves the third country of export or origin. It shall be endorsed by the relevant Member State’s competent authority and completed by the first consignee on the basis of the model and the notes set out in Annex V and using the electronic Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) established by Commission Decision 2003/24/EC(1).’;
Annex III is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;
Annex IV is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
Article 2Correction of Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008
Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1235/2008 is corrected in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.
Article 3Entry into force and application
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 2 shall apply from 31 January 2019.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 13 January 2020.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula von der Leyen