IMA1 issuing bodies
Article 54
1. IMA 1 certificates shall be valid only if duly completed and authenticated by an issuing body listed in Annex XIV. IMA 1 certificates shall be regarded as duly authenticated where they show the date and place of issue, are stamped by the issuing body and bear the signature of the person authorised to sign them. 2. Issuing bodies shall be listed in Annex XIV only if: (a) they are recognised as such by the exporting country; (b) they undertake to supply the Commission and the Member States, upon request, with any information that may be required to assess the particulars set out in the certificates; (c) they undertake to send to the Commission a copy of each authenticated IMA 1 certificate with the related identification number and the total quantity covered, on the date of issue or within seven days of that date at the latest and, where appropriate, to notify any cancellation, correction or amendment. Such submission should take place by means of the information system referred to in Article 72(8); (d) in the case of products falling under CN code 0406, where the exporting country issuing IMA 1 certificates does not have access to the information system referred to in Article 72(8), it shall undertake to notify the Commission by 15 January, for each quota separately, of: (i) the total number of IMA 1 certificates issued for the previous quota year, the identification number of each IMA 1 certificate and the quantity covered by it; (ii) the total number of IMA 1 certificates issued for the tariff quota period concerned and the total quantity covered by those certificates; and (iii) the cancellation, correction or amendment of those IMA 1 certificates or the issue of copies of IMA 1 certificates, as provided for in Annex XIV, and all relevant details thereof. 3. Where an issuing body no longer meets the requirements specified in this Article, it shall be removed from Annex XIV.