Article 11 · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2306

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Article 11Transitional provisions for paper certificates of inspection and extracts thereof#

1.By way of derogation from Article 5(3), first subparagraph, until 30 November 2022, the certificate of inspection may be issued on paper after being completed in TRACES and printed. That paper certificate shall meet the following requirements:

(a)in box 18, it shall bear the hand signature of the authorised person of the control authority or control body issuing the certificate and the official stamp;

(b)it shall be issued before the consignment to which it relates leaves the third country of export or of origin.

1a.By way of derogation from Article 5(3), first subparagraph, until 30 November 2022, an authorised person located in Ukraine of a control authority or a control body which is not equipped with a qualified electronic seal may produce and submit in TRACES the certificate of inspection in electronic format without the application of a qualified electronic seal in box 18 thereof. Such certificate shall be issued before the consignment to which it relates leaves Ukraine.

2.By way of derogation from Article 6(3), until 30 November 2022, the following shall apply:

(a)in case the certificate of inspection is issued on paper in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article, that certificate shall be endorsed on paper with the hand signature of the authorised person of the competent authority at the border control post or at the point of release for free circulation, in boxes 23, 25 and 30, as appropriate, after being completed in TRACES and printed;

(b)in case the certificate of inspection is issued in TRACES and bears a qualified electronic seal, in accordance with Article 5(3), first subparagraph, that certificate may be endorsed on paper with the hand signature of the authorised person of the competent authority at the border control post or at the point of release for free circulation, in boxes 23, 25 and 30, as appropriate, after being completed in TRACES and printed;

(c)in case the certificate of inspection is produced and submitted in TRACES in electronic format in accordance with paragraph 1a, that certificate shall be endorsed in TRACES with a qualified electronic seal or on paper with the hand signature of the authorised person of the competent authority at the border control post or at the point of release for free circulation, in boxes 23, 25 and 30, as appropriate, after being completed in TRACES and printed.

3.Control authorities, control bodies and competent authorities shall verify at each stage of issuing, and endorsement of the certificate of inspection, as appropriate, that the information on the paper certificate of inspection corresponds to the information on the certificate that is completed in TRACES.In case the information relating to the number of packages referred to in box 13 of the certificate of inspection or the information in boxes 16 and 17 of that certificate is not completed on the paper certificate of inspection, or in case such information is different from the information completed in the certificate in TRACES, the competent authorities shall consider for the purpose of the verification of the consignment and of the endorsement of the certificate, only the information completed in TRACES.

4.The paper certificate of inspection referred to in paragraph 1 shall be presented to the competent authority at the border control post of entry into the Union where the consignment is subjected to official controls or to the competent authority at the point of release for free circulation, as appropriate. That competent authority shall return that paper certificate to the importer.

5.By way of derogation from Articles 6(6) and 7(4), until 30 November 2022, the extract of the certificate of inspection may be endorsed on paper, after being completed in TRACES and printed. That paper extract of certificate shall meet the following requirements:

(a)in box 12, it shall be endorsed on paper with the hand signature of the authorised person of the competent authority;

(b)it shall bear the hand signature of the consignee of the batch, in box 13.

The competent authority referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph shall return that paper extract of the certificate to the person that presented it.