Conditions and data for the approved exporter in the EU

How can you boost your export? With the approved exporter?

OK but which are the requirements to become approved exporter? According to the “ Guidance on Approved Exporters” of TAXUD the prerequirements are:

frequency of consignments (except for the FTA with South Corea);
the exporter should be known as reliable. A condition may be that he must not be subject to bankruptcy proceedings or being in arrears of customs duties and taxes;
Any product can be covered by the authorisation where it is originating in the framework of the preferential arrangement concerned and benefits from a preferential duty rate

The economic operator has to provide with these data:

Data relating to the applicant:
Company: corporate name, EORI, national identification number, address of the company (administration or establishment which holds proofs of origin depending on the entity for which the status will be granted)
Contact person: name, surname, e-mail address, phone number, position in the company
Commercial activity of the applicant (trader or manufacturer)
Data on products and manufacturing:
Address of manufacturing site and/or storage of the products
Products intended to be exported (HS heading 4 digits and nature of the product)
Intended country / countries of destination
Fulfilment of the origin rules in the framework of the different preferential arrangements, explanation of the manufacturing process, the input materials (classification, value, origin)
Data on exports:
Regularity of exports under preferential treatment (unnecessary in trade under agreements where the element of frequency is not included), if available
If the goods to be exported will be distributed from other Member States listing relevant Member States and where appropriate customs authorities and the name, address and place of business of the relevant enterprise.
Data on the organisation of the company:
Name of employee responsible for preferential transactions
Name of employee responsible for signing origin declarations;
Accounting system for differentiating goods with / without preferential origin status (also information about IT system in use)
Treatment of preferential documents (evidence of origin the applicant is going to hold)
Documents that must be detained by the applicant
Book-keeping system for guaranteeing that the applicant is in possession of all documents proving preferential origin
Use of a custom procedure in the processing of the product, in particular authorisation for inward processing, in order to avoid any incompatibility with a prohibition of duty drawback clause.
Commitments of the exporter:
to supply at all times evidence of the originating status of the exported goods
to keep the evidence of the originating status three or more years (depending on the period mentioned in the preferential arrangement)
to make out an origin declaration only for products for which all evidence or accounting elements required to prove the preferential origin are held at the time of the export
Other data:
date and signature of the applicant
indicate whether the application for the approved exporter authorisation is the first or whether it concerns an extension or amendment;
other authorisations in use (e.g AEO), including the number of the authorisation
Binding Origin Information issued
when the possibility of not signing origin declarations (a signature waiver) is requested a written undertaking has to be submitted