Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/760 of 8 April 2022 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2306 as regards the transitional provisions for certificates of inspection issued in Ukraine

Article 11 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2306 is amended as follows:

(1) the following paragraph 1a is inserted:

1a.

By way of derogation from Article 5(3), first subparagraph, until 30 June 2022, an authorised person located in Ukraine of a control authority or a control body which is not equipped with a qualified electronic seal may produce and submit in TRACES the certificate of inspection in electronic format without the application of a qualified electronic seal in box 18 thereof. Such certificate shall be issued before the consignment to which it relates leaves the third country of export or of origin.;

(2) in paragraph 2, the following point (c) is added:

(c) in case the certificate of inspection is produced and submitted in TRACES in electronic format in accordance with paragraph 1a, that certificate shall be endorsed in TRACES with a qualified electronic seal or on paper with the hand signature of the authorised person of the competent authority at the border control post or at the point of release for free circulation, in boxes 23, 25 and 30, as appropriate, after being completed in TRACES and printed..

Article 2

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 24 February 2022.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 April 2022.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen