(1) Tekst Konvencije o pojednostavljenju formalnosti u trgovini robom u originalu na engleskom jeziku i u prevodu na srpski jezik glasi:
(2) CONVENTION
(3) ON THE SIMPLIFICATION OF FORMALITIES IN TRADE IN GOODS
(4) THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,
(5) (hereinafter called the Community),
(6) AND THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA, THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND, THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND, THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY, THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN AND THE SWISS CONFEDERATION
(7) (hereinafter called the EFTA countries)
(8) CONSIDERING the Free Trade Agreements between the Community and each of the EFTA countries;
(9) CONSIDERING the Joint Declaration calling for the creation of a European economic space, adopted by Ministers of the EFTA countries and the Member States of the Community and the Commission of the European Communities in Luxembourg on 9 April 1984, especially with regard to simplification of border formalities and rules of origin;
(10) CONSIDERING that, in the framework of action to strengthen the internal market, the Community has decided to introduce a single administrative document for use in such trade from 1 January 1988;
(11) CONSIDERING it appropriate to simplify also formalities in trade in goods between the Community and the EFTA countries as well as between the EFTA countries themselves, in particular by introducing a single administrative document;
(12) CONSIDERING that no provision of this Convention may be interpreted as exempting the Contracting Parties from their obligations under other international agreements,
(13) HAVE DECIDED TO CONCLUDE THE FOLLOWING CONVENTION
(14) General provisions
(15) Article 1
(16) [1. This Convention lays down the measures to simplify formalities in trade in goods between the Contracting Parties, in particular by introducing a single administrative document (hereinafter referred to as the single document) to be used for any procedure at export and import and for a common transit procedure (hereinafter referred to as transit), applicable to trade between the Contracting Parties regardless of the kind and origin of the goods.
(17) 2. For the purposes of this Convention, “third country” shall mean any country which is not a Contracting Party to this Convention.
(18) 3. From the date on which the accession of a new Contracting Party becomes effective in accordance with Article 11a, all references in this Convention to EFTA countries shall apply to that country mutatis mutandis, and solely for the purposes of this Convention.]3
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(20) 3 Recommendation Nr 1/93 of the EEC-EFTA Joint Committee on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods of 23 September 1993 for the amendment of the Convention of 20 May 1987. on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods
(21) Official Journal L 036 , 14/02/1996 p. 0027 - 0028
(22) Article 2
(23) Where goods are the subject of trade between the Contracting Parties, the formalities connected with such trade shall be completed using a single document based on a declaration form, the specimens of which are to be found in Annex I to this Convention. The single document shall, depending on the circumstances, serve as a declaration or document of export, transit or import.
(24) Article 3
(25) Administrative documents may be required by a Contracting Party in addition to the single document only where:
(26) – expressly required for the implementation of a legislation in force in a Contracting Party for which the use of the single document would not suffice;
(27) – required under the terms of international agreements to which it is a party;
(28) – required from operators to enable them to qualify, at their request, for an advantage or a specific facility.
(29) Article 4
(30) 1. Nothing in this Convention shall preclude the Contracting Parties from applying simplified procedures, whether or not based on the use of computers, with a view to greater simplification for operators.
(31) 2. Simplified procedures may, in particular, consist in allowing operators not to have to present to a customs office either the goods in question or the declaration relating to them, or in allowing them to draw up an incomplete declaration. In such cases, a declaration, which, if the competent authorities agree, may be a general periodic declaration, must be submitted subsequently within the time-limits laid down by those authorities.
(32) In the cases referred to in paragraph 1, operators may be authorized to use commercial documents in the place of the single document.
(33) Where the single document is used, the persons concerned may, on authorization by the competent authorities, attach to it commercial schedules describing the goods in lieu of continuation sheets of the single document for the purpose of completing formalities for any procedure at export and import.
(34) 3. Nothing in this Convention shall preclude the Contracting Parties from:
(35) – dispensing with the single document with regard to postal traffic (by letter or parcel post);
(36) – dispensing with the requirement of written declarations;
(37) – concluding between themselves agreements or arrangements with a view to greater simplification of formalities in all or part of the trade between them;
(38) – allowing the use of loading lists for the completion of transit formalities in the case of consignments composed of several kinds of goods, in lieu of continuation sheets of the single document;
(39) – allowing declarations to be made, where appropriate on plain paper, by means of public or private computers on conditions fixed by the competent authorities;
(40) – enabling the competent authorities to require that data necessary for completing the formalities in question be entered in their computerized declaration-processing systems without, where appropriate, requiring a written declaration;
(41) – enabling the competent authorities, should a computerized declaration-processing system be used, to provide that the export, transit or import declaration be constituted either by the single document produced by that system or by entry of the data in the computer if such a document is not produced;
(42) – applying any facility adopted by way of a decision of the Joint Committee, as referred to in Article 11 (3).
(43) Formalities
(44) Article 5
(45) 1. Provisions on the completion, by means of the single document, of the formalities needed for the export, transit and import of the goods are laid down in Annex II to this Convention.
(46) 2. The common codes to be used in the forms laid down in Annex I are to be found in Annex III to this Convention.
(47) Article 6
(48) 1. The declaration must be completed in one of the official languages of the Contracting Parties which is acceptable to the competent authorities of the country in which the export or transit formalities are completed. Where necessary, the customs authority of the country of destination or of transit may require from the declarant or his representative in that country a translation of the said declaration into the official language or one of the official languages of that country.
(49) 2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the declaration shall be completed in one of the official languages of the country of import in all cases where the declaration in that country is made on copies of the declaration from other than those presented to the customs authorities of the country of export or departure.
(50) Article 7
(51) 1. The declarant or his representative may, for each stage of an operation involving trade in goods between Contracting Parties, use the copies of the declaration necessary for completion of the formalities relating to that stage alone, to which may be attached, where appropriate, the copies necessary for completion of the formalities relating to one or other of the subsequent stages of that operation.
(52) 2. The benefit of the provisions of paragraph 1 shall not be subject to compliance with any special condition imposed by the competent authorities.
(53) However, without prejudice to specific provisions concerning groupage traffic, the competent authorities may lay down that formalities relating to export and transit operations should be completed on the same form by means of copies corresponding to these formalities.
(54) Article 8
(55) In the cases referred to in Article 7, the competent authorities shall, to the extent possible, satisfy themselves that the particulars given in the copies of the declaration drawn up in the course of the various stages of the operation in question all agree.
(56) Administrative assistance
(57) Article 9
(58) 1. In order to ensure the smooth functioning of trade between the Contracting Parties and to facilitate the detection of any irregularity or infringement, the customs authorities of the countries concerned shall, upon request or, where they consider that this would be in the interest of another Contracting Party, on their own initiative, provide each other with all available information (including administrative reports and findings) of interest for the proper implementation of this Convention.
(59) 2. Assistance may be withheld or denied, totally or partly, when the requested country considers that the assistance would be prejudicial to its security, public policy (ordre public) or other essential interests, or would violate an industrial, commercial or professional secret.
(60) 3. If assistance is withheld or denied, the decision and the reasons therefor must be notified to the requesting country without delay.
(61) 4. If the customs authority of a country requests assistance which it would not be able to give if requested, it shall draw attention to that fact in the request. Compliance with such a request shall be at the discretion of the customs authority to whom the request is made.
(62) 5. Information obtained in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be used solely for the purposes of this Convention and shall be accorded the same protection by a receiving country as is afforded to information of like nature under the national law of that country. Such information may be used for other purposes only with the written consent of the customs authority which furnished them and subject to any restrictions laid down by that authority.
(63) The Joint Committee
(64) Article 10
(65) 1. A Joint Committee is hereby established in which each Contracting Party to this Convention shall be represented.
(66) 2. The Joint Committee shall act by mutual agreement.
(67) 3. The Joint Committee shall meet whenever necessary but at least once a year. Any Contracting Party may request that a meeting be held.
(68) 4. The Joint Committee shall adopt its own rules of procedure which shall contain, inter alia, provisions for convening meetings and for the designation of the Chairman and his term of office.
(69) 5. The Joint Committee may decide to set up any Sub-Committee or Working Party that can assist it in carrying out its duties.
(70) Article 11
(71) 1. It shall be the responsibility of the Joint Committee to administer this Convention and ensure its proper implementation. For this purpose, the said Committee shall be kept regularly informed, by the Contracting Parties, of the experiences gained from application of the Convention, shall make recommendations, and, in the cases provided for in paragraph 3, shall take decisions.
(72) 2. In particular, the Joint Committee shall recommend:
(73) (a) amendments to this Convention;
(74) (b) any other measure required for its application.
(75) [3. The Joint Committee shall adopt, by decision, amendments to the Annexes to this Convention, facilities referred to in the last indent of Article 4 (3) and invitations to third countries within the meaning of Article 1 (2) to accede to this Convention in accordance with Article 11a. Such decisions, except invitations to third countries, shall be put into effect by the contracting parties in accordance with their own legislation.] 4
(76) 4. If a Contracting Party’s representative in the Joint Committee has accepted a decision subject to the fulfilment of constitutional requirements, the decision shall enter into force, if no date is contained therein, on the first day of the second month following notification that the reservation has been lifted.
(77) [5. Decisions of the Joint Committee referred to in paragraph 3 inviting a third country to accede to this Convention shall be sent to the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities, which shall communicate it to the third country concerned, together with a text of the Convention in force on that date.
(78) 6. From the date referred to in paragraph 5, the third country concerned may be represented on the Joint Committee and working parties by observers.] 5
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(80) 4 Recommendation Nr 1/93
(81) 5 Recommendation Nr 1/93
(82) [Accession of third countries
(83) Article 11a
(84) 1. Any third country may become a Contracting Party to this Convention if invited to do so by the depositary of the Convention following a decision of the Joint Committee.
(85) 2. A third country invited to become a Contracting Party to this Convention shall do so by lodging an instrument of accession with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities. The said instrument shall be accompanied by a translation of the Convention into the official language(s) of the acceding country.
(86) 3. The accession shall become effective on the first day of the second month following the lodging of the instrument of accession.
(87) 4. The depositary shall notify all Contracting Parties of the date on which the instrument of accession was lodged and the date on which the accession will become effective.
(88) 5. Recommendations and decisions of the Joint Committee referred to in Article 11 (2) and (3) adopted between the date referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and the date on which accession becomes effective shall also be communicated to the invited third country via the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities.
(89) A declaration accepting such acts shall be inserted either in the instrument of accession or in a separate instrument lodged with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities within six months of the communication. If the declaration is not lodged within that period the accession shall be considered void.] 6
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(91) 6 Recommendation Nr 1/93
(92) General and final provisions
(93) Article 12
(94) Each Contracting Party shall take appropriate measures to ensure that the provisions of this Convention are effectively and harmoniously applied taking into account the need to reduce as far as possible the formalities imposed on trade and the need to achieve mutually satisfactory solutions of any difficulties arising out of the operation of those provisions.
(95) Article 13
(96) The Contracting Parties shall keep each other informed of the provisions which they adopt for the implementation of this Convention.
(97) Article 14
(98) The Annexes to this Convention shall form an integral part thereof.
(99) Article 15
(100) 1. This Convention shall apply, on the one hand, to the territories in which the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community is applied and under the conditions laid down in that Treaty and, on the other hand, to the territories of the EFTA countries.
(101) 2. This Convention shall also apply to the Principality of Lichtenstein for as long as that Principality remains bound to the Swiss Confederation by a customs union treaty.
(102) Article 16
(103) Any Contracting Party may withdraw from this Convention provided it gives twelve months’ notice in writing to the depositary referred to in Article 17 which shall notify all other Contracting Parties.
(104) Article 17
(105) 1. This Convention shall enter into force on 1. January 1988, provided that, before 1 November 1987, the Contracting Parties have deposited their instruments of acceptance with the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities, which shall act as depositary.
(106) 2. If this Convention does not enter into force on 1 January 1988, it shall do so on the first day of the second month following the deposit of the last instrument of acceptance.
(107) 3. The depositary shall notify the Contracting Parties of the date of the deposit of the instrument of acceptance of each Contracting Party and of the date of the entry into force of the Convention.
(108) Article 18
(109) This Convention, drawn up in a single original of the Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish languages, all texts being equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities, which shall transmit a certified copy thereof to each Contracting Party.
(110) [Done at Interlaken, the 20 may 1987.] 7
(111) 7 Is not part of the text officially published in the O.J.
(112) ANNEX I
(113) SPECIMENS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2 OF THE CONVENTION 8
(114) This Annex contains at:
(115) – appendix 1: the specimen single document form referred to in paragraph 1 (a) of Article 1 of Annex II,
(116) – appendix 2: the specimen single document form referred to in paragraph 1 (b) of Article 1 of Annex II,
(117) – appendix 3: the specimen continuation sheet form referred to in paragraph 2 (a) of Article 1 of Annex II,
(118) and
(119) – appendix 4: the specimen continuation sheet form referred to in paragraph 2 (b) of Article 1 of Annex II.
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(121) 8 In all the forms in this Annex, either the words “Community transit” or the words “common transit” may be used.
(122) ANNEX II
(123) PRINT, COMPLETION AND USE OF THE SINGLE DOCUMENT
(124) Print of the single document
(125) Article 1
(126) 1. Without prejudice to the possibility of split use provided for in Appendix 3 to this Annex, forms for the single document shall consist of eight copies:
(127) (a) either as a set of eight consecutive sheets, in accordance with the specimen contained in Appendix 1 to Annex I;
(128) (b) or, particularly in the event of issue by means of a computerized system for processing declarations, of two sets of four consecutive sheets, in accordance, with the specimen contained in Appendix 2 to Annex I.
(129) 2. The single document may, if necessary, be supplemented by continuation sheets:
(130) (a) either as a set of eight consecutive sheets, in accordance with the specimen contained in Appendix 3 to Annex I;
(131) (b) or of two sets of four consecutive sheets, in accordance with the specimen contained in Appendix 4 to Annex I.
(132) 3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, Contracting Parties shall have the option of not authorizing the use of continuation sheet forms in the event of use of a computerized system for processing declarations which issues such declarations.
(133) 4. Users shall be free to have forms printed, containing only those copies of the specimen in Annex I which they need for completing their declarations.
(134) 5. In the top left-hand corner of the form the Contracting Parties may print an indication identifying the Contracting Party concerned. Where such documents are presented in another Contracting Party this indication shall not prevent the declaration from being accepted.
(135) Article 2
(136) 1. Forms shall be printed on self-copying paper dressed for writing purposes and weighing at least 40 grams per square metre. The paper must be sufficiently opaque for the information on one side not to affect the legibility of the information on the other side and its strength should be such that in normal use it does not easily tear or crease. The paper shall be white for all copies. [However, on the copies used for transit (1, 4 and 5), boxes 1 (except the middle sub-division), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 27, 31, 32, 33 (first sub-division on the left), 35, 38, 40, 44, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55 and 56 have a green background.]11 The forms shall be printed in green ink.
(137) [1a. A colour marking of the different copies of the forms shall be effected in the following manner:
(138) (a) on forms conforming to the specimens shown in Appendices 1 and 3 of Annex I:
(139) – copies 1, 2, 3 and 5 shall have at the right-hand edge a continuous margin coloured respectively red, green, yellow and blue,
(140) – copies 4, 6, 7 and 8 shall have at the right-hand edge a broken margin coloured respectively blue, red, green and yellow;
(141) (b) on forms conforming to the specimens shown in Appendices 2 and 4 of Annex I, copies 1/6, 2/7, 3/8 and 4/5 shall have at the right-hand edge a continuous margin and, to the right of this, a broken margin coloured respectively red, green, yellow and blue.
(142) The width of these margins shall be approximately 3 millimetres. The broken margin shall comprise a series of squares with a side measurement of 3 millimetres, each one separated by 3 millimetres.]12
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(144) 11 Decision Nr 1/2000 of the EC-EFTA Joint Committee on simplification of formalities in trade in goods of 20 December 2000 amending Annexes II and III of the Convention on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods.
(145) Official Journal No L 009 12/01/2001, p. 0108 - 0109
(146) 12 Decision Nr 1/89 of the EEC-EFTA Joint Committee ‘Simplification of Formalities’ of 3 May 1989 amending Annex II to the Convention on the simplification of formalities in trade in goods.
(147) Official Journal No L 200 , 13/07/1989 p. 0003 - 0003
(148) 2. The indication of the copies on which the particulars contained in the forms must appear by a self-copying process is given in Appendix 1. An indication of the copies on which the particulars contained in the continuation sheets must appear by a self-copying process is given in Appendix 2.
(149) 3. The format of the forms shall be 210 x 297 millimetres with a maximum tolerance of 5 millimetres less and 8 millimetres more with regard to their length.
(150) 4. Contracting Parties may require that the forms must also show the name and address of the printer or a mark enabling the printer to be identified.
(151) Completion of the single document
(152) Article 3
(153) 1. The forms shall be completed in accordance with the explanatory note in Appendix 3.
(154) 2. When formalities are completed using public or private computer systems, the competent authorities shall authorize persons, who so request, to replace the handwritten signature with a comparable technical device, which may, where applicable, be based on the use of codes, and which has the same legal consequences as a handwritten signature. This facility shall be granted only if the technical and administrative conditions laid down by the competent authorities are met.
(155) 3. When formalities are completed using public or private computers which also print out the declarations, the competent authorities may provide for direct authentication by those systems of the declarations thus produced, in place of the manual or mechanical application of the customs office stamp and the signature of the competent official.
(156) Use of the single document
(157) Article 4
(158) The provisions for the use of the single document are laid down in Appendix 3.
(159) Article 5
(160) 1. When a single document set is used successively for completion of export, transit and/or import formalities, each person intervening in the operation shall be liable only with respect to the particulars relating to the procedure which he requested as declarant, principal or representative of the declarant or principal.
(161) 2. For the purposes of applying paragraph 1, when the person concerned uses a single document issued in an earlier phase of the trade operation in question, he shall be required, prior to lodging his declaration, to verify the accuracy of the existing particulars for the boxes for which he is responsible and their applicability to the goods in question and to the procedure requested, as well as to supplement them where necessary.
(162) 3. In the cases referred to in paragraph 2, the person concerned must immediately inform the customs service of any discrepancy established between the goods in question and the existing particulars.
(163) Article 6
(164) 1. For the export of goods from the territory of a Contracting Party the copies 1, 2 und 3 conforming to the specimen contained in Appendix 1 to Annex I or the copies 1/6, 2/7 and 3/8 conforming to the specimen contained in Appendix 2 to Annex I shall be required.
(165) [For transit the copies 1, 4 and 5 conforming to the specimen contained in Appendix 1 to Annex I or the copies 1/6 and 4/5 (twice) conforming to the specimen in Appendix 2 to Annex I shall be required.]13
(166) 3. For the import of goods into the territory of a Contracting Party the copies 6, 7 and 8 conforming to the specimen contained in Appendix 1 to Annex I or the copies 1/6, 2/7 and 3/8 conforming to the specimen contained in Appendix 2 to Annex I shall be required.
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(168) 13 Decision Nr 1/2000
(169) Lodging of the declaration
(170) Article 7
(171) 1. The declarations must be accompanied, within the limits laid down in Article 3 of the Convention, by the documents necessary for entry of the goods in question under the procedure applied for.
(172) 2. The lodging with a customs office of a declaration signed by the declarant or his representative shall indicate that the person concerned is declaring the goods in question for the procedure applied for and, without prejudice to the possible application of penal provisions, shall be equivalent to the engagement of responsibility, under the provisions in force in the Contracting Parties, in respect of:
(173) – the accuracy of the information given in the declaration,
(174) – the authenticity of the documents attached, and
(175) – the observance of all the obligations inherent in the entry of the goods in question under the procedure concerned.
(176) Article 8
(177) In cases where supplementary copies of the single document or declaration are required, the persons concerned may use additional sheets or photocopies of that document or declaration for this purpose, as necessary. They shall be accepted by the competent authorities as if they were original documents provided that their quality and legibility are considered satisfactory by the authorities.
(178) Appendix 1
(179) Indication of the copies of the forms given in Appendices 1 and 3 of Annex I on which the particulars contained therein must appear by a self-copying process
(180) (counting copy 1)
(181) Box No
(182) Copies
(183) Box No
(184) Copies