40In view of the foregoing, the answer to the first question is that Article 32 of Protocol 1 must be interpreted as meaning that the results of a subsequent verification as to the accuracy of the origin of goods as indicated on the EUR.1 certificates issued by an ACP State and which consisted, for the most part, of an investigation conducted by the Commission, and more precisely by OLAF, in that State, and at its invitation, are binding on the authorities of the Member State into which the goods were imported, provided that – and this is a matter for the national court to establish – those authorities received a document unequivocally acknowledging that that ACP State endorsed those results.
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