Article 59

1. For the purpose of ensuring compliance with the rules concerning the originating status of products, the competent authorities of the OCTs shall carry out: verifications of the originating status of products at the request of the customs authorities of the Member States; regular controls on exporters on their own initiative. Extended cumulation shall only be permitted under Article 10 of this Annex, if a country with which the Union has a free trade agreement in force has agreed to provide the OCTs with its support in matters of administrative cooperation in the same way as it would provide such support to the customs authorities of the Member States in accordance with the relevant provisions of the free trade agreement concerned. 2. The controls referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 shall ensure the continued compliance of exporters with their obligations. They shall be carried out at intervals determined on the basis of appropriate risk analysis criteria. For that purpose, the competent authorities of the OCTs shall require exporters to provide copies or a list of the statements on origin they have made out. 3. The competent authorities of the OCTs shall have the right to call for any evidence and to carry out any inspection of the exporter’s accounts and, where appropriate, those of producers supplying the exporter, including at the premises, or any other check considered appropriate.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.