Conditions for making out an invoice declaration
Article 22
1. An invoice declaration as referred to in Article 16(1)(b) may be made out: (a) by an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 23; or (b) by any exporter for any consignment consisting of one or more packages containing originating products whose total value does not exceed EUR 6 000. 2. An invoice declaration may be made out if the products concerned can be considered as products originating in the Community, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or in one of the other countries or territories referred to in Articles 3 and 4 and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol. 3. The exporter making out an invoice declaration shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs authorities of the exporting country, all appropriate documents proving the originating status of the products concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol. 4. An invoice declaration shall be made out by the exporter by typing, stamping or printing on the invoice, the delivery note or another commercial document, the declaration, the text of which appears in Annex IV, using one of the linguistic versions set out in that Annex and in accordance with the provisions of the domestic law of the exporting country. If the declaration is hand-written, it shall be written in ink in printed characters. 5. Invoice declarations shall bear the original signature of the exporter in manuscript. However, an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 23 shall not be required to sign such declarations provided that he gives the customs authorities of the exporting country a written undertaking that he accepts full responsibility for any invoice declaration which identifies him as if it had been signed in manuscript by him. 6. An invoice declaration may be made out by the exporter when the products to which it relates are exported, or after exportation on condition that it is presented in the importing country no longer than two years after the importation of the products to which it relates.