Origin

The certificate of origin is a standard document which, in order to satisfy customs and / or commercial or foreign requirements, identifies the goods, and in which the authority or body empowered to issue the certification certifies that the goods The certificate is a document that comes from a given country or group of countries.

The certificate of origin is documentary proof of the origin: it is attested that the goods originate from the European Community, or, on proof, from third countries. The notion of origin is the keystone of customs regulations. It expresses, in principle, the place of the last substantial transformation of the goods. Its legal definition is precise. Some confusions must be dismissed, such as the one that too often consists in associating origin and provenance. The concept of provenance is a geographical concept which expresses, by definition, only payment from its goods dispatched before their introduction in a customs territory.