Article 1
Open ↗Decision 2004/388/EC is amended as follows: 1. The following Article 3(a) is inserted: ‘Article 3a Where the Member State of origin, the Member State of the recipient and any transit Member States all use a common electronic system for the approval of the transfer of explosives within the Union, the procedure set out in the second to fifth subparagraphs shall apply. The consignee shall submit the intra-Community transfer of explosives document in paper version or in an electronic version with sections 1 to 4 completed only to the competent authority of the recipient Member State for approval. After giving its own approval, the recipient Member State shall send the approval to the Member State of origin using the common electronic system. After giving its own approval, the competent authority of the Member State of origin shall seek the approval from the competent authorities of all transit Member States using the common electronic system. After having received all approvals, the competent authority of the Member State of origin shall issue the intra-Community transfer of explosives document indicating the agreement of all Member States concerned to the supplier on securely identifiable paper and in the language(s) of the Member State of origin, the Member State(s) of transit (if applicable), the recipient Member State and in English.’ 2. In the Annex, in point 2 of the Explanatory Notes, the following sentence is added at the end of the paragraph: ‘This point does not apply in case the common electronic system described in Article 3a is used.’