Article 20
Loss of a certificate Where the holder or transferee of an IP certificate is able to prove to the satisfaction of the competent authority both that the certificate or an extract therefrom has not been used wholly or in part and that it can no longer be used, particularly because it has been totally or partially destroyed, the body which issued the original certificate shall issue a replacement certificate or extract for a quantity of goods equalling the quantity remaining available. A replacement certificate or extract shall contain the information and entries appearing on the document which it replaces.