1. Standard licences shall be issued on the form, a model of which is set out in Annex I. The form shall be printed on white paper without mechanical pulp, dressed for writing purposes and weighing not less than 55 g/m 2 .
2. Forms shall measure 210 × 297 mm.
3. Forms shall be produced in printed or electronic form and filled out in an official language of the Union designated by the competent authorities of the issuing Member State.
The competent authorities of the Member State in which the form is presented may ask for it to be translated into the language, or one of the official languages, of that Member State. In this case, the translation costs shall be met by the licence holder.
4. Member States shall be responsible:
(a)
for having the forms printed, bearing the printer’s name and address or identifying mark;
(b)
for taking any measure necessary in order to avoid the forging of forms. The means of identification adopted by Member States for this purpose shall be notified to the Commission, for communication to the competent authorities of the other Member States.
5. Forms shall preferably be filled in by mechanical or electronic means. However, the application may be filled in legibly by hand; in the latter case it shall be written in ink and in block capitals.
Whatever the process used, forms shall not contain erasures, overwritten words or other alterations.
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, a separate export licence shall be issued for each consignment of cultural goods.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, a consignment shall mean either a single cultural object or a number of cultural objects.
3. Where a consignment consists of a number of cultural objects, it is for the competent authorities to determine whether one or several export licences should be issued for the consignment in question.
The form shall comprise three sheets:
(a)
one sheet, marked as No 1, which shall constitute the application;
(b)
one sheet, marked as No 2, for the holder;
(c)
one sheet, marked as No 3, which shall be returned to the issuing authority.
1. The applicant shall complete boxes 1, 3, 6 to 21, 24 and, if necessary, 25 of the application and the other sheets, except where pre-printing of the box or boxes is authorised.
However, Member States may provide that only the application need be completed.
2. The application shall be accompanied by:
(a)
documentation providing all relevant information on the cultural object(s) and its (their) legal status at the time when the application is made, by means of any supporting documents (invoices, expert appraisals etc.) where appropriate;
(b)
a duly authenticated photograph or, where appropriate and at the discretion of the competent authorities, photographs in black and white or in colour (measuring at least 8 cm by 12 cm) of the cultural goods in question.
This requirement may be replaced, where appropriate and at the discretion of the competent authorities, by a detailed list of the cultural goods.
3. The competent authorities may require, for the purposes of issuing an export licence, the physical presentation of the cultural goods to be exported.
4. Any costs incurred by the application of paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be met by the applicant requesting the export licence.
5. In order that an export licence may be granted, the duly completed form shall be presented to the competent authorities designated by the Member States pursuant to Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 116/2009. When the authority has granted the export licence, sheet 1 shall be kept by that authority and the remaining sheets shall be returned to the holder of the export licence or to his authorised representative.
The following shall be presented in support of the export declaration:
(a)
the sheet for the holder;
(b)
the sheet to be returned to the issuing authority.
1. The customs office responsible for handling the export declaration shall ensure that the entries on the export declaration or, if applicable, the ATA carnet, correspond to the entries on the export licence and that a reference to the export licence is entered in box 44 of the export declaration or on the counterfoil of the ATA carnet.
It shall take suitable measures for identification purposes. The measures may consist in the affixation of a seal or stamp of the customs office. The sheet of the export licence form which is to be returned to the issuing authority shall be attached to copy 3 of the single administrative document.
2. After completing box 23 in sheets 2 and 3, the customs office authorised to accept the export declaration shall return to the declarant or to his/her authorised representative the sheet intended for the holder.
3. The sheet of the licence form which is to be returned to the issuing authority, must accompany the consignment to the customs office at the point of exit from the customs territory of the Union.
The customs office shall affix its stamp to box 26 of the form and return it to the issuing authority.
1. The period of validity of export licences shall not exceed 12 months from the date of issue.
2. In the case of an application for temporary exportation, the competent authorities may specify the time limit within which the cultural goods must be reimported into the issuing Member State.
3. Where an export licence expires without having been used, the holder shall immediately return to the issuing authority the sheets in his possession
Source: EUR-Lex (Publications Office of the EU), © European Union, reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
