Art. 5
EU Competent Authorities
In vigore dal 16 nov 2009
Article 5
EU Competent Authorities
1. The European Commission shall inform Ghana of the contact details of the competent authorities of the EU Member States.
2. The competent authorities shall verify that each shipment is covered by a valid FLEGT licence prior to releasing that shipment for free circulation in the Community. The release of the shipment may be suspended and the shipment detained where there are doubts regarding the validity of the FLEGT licence. The procedures governing release for free circulation in the Community for shipments covered by a FLEGT licence are described in Annex III.
3. The competent authorities shall not permit any timber product listed in Annex IB to be released for free circulation.
4. The competent authorities shall maintain and publish annually a record of FLEGT licences received.
5. According to national legislation on data protection, the competent authorities shall grant persons or bodies designated by Ghana as independent monitors, access to the relevant documents and data.
6. The Community competent authorities will not perform the action described in paragraph 2 for shipments of timber products derived from species listed in the Appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) as these are covered by the provisions for verification set out in Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 of 9 December 1996 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein (7). The FLEGT licence system will none the less provide assurance of legal harvest of these products.
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Proeli:dec:2010:151:oj#art-5