SECTION IGENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 3Accreditation requirements
1.
An accredited manufacturer shall comply with all of the following accreditation requirements:
(a)
the requirements relating to security, quality, environment and health and safety, either set out in this Decision or in any other related legal instrument, that the ECB requires a manufacturer to comply with in order to perform a euro secure item activity or a euro item activity;
(b)
the ethical requirements as laid down in Article 4;
(c)
the following location requirements:
- (i)
where the manufacturer is not a printing works, the manufacturing site shall be located in a Member State of the Union or in a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA); or
- (ii)
where the manufacturer is a printing works, the manufacturing site shall be located in a Member State of the Union;
(d)
possession of a certification stating that, at the relevant manufacturing site for the relevant euro secure item activity or euro item activity, its management systems meet the requirements of all the following standards:
- (i)
the ISO 9001 standard;
- (ii)
the ISO 14001 standard;
- (iii)
either the ISO 45001 standard or Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) 18001 standard up to 11 March 2021, and only the ISO 45001 standard thereafter.
2.
Manufacturers may adopt and implement stricter requirements with regard to the requirements in paragraph 1(a) and (b).
3.
Where a manufacturer meets the location requirements of paragraph 1(c), but its business is controlled by a legal entity established outside a Member State of the Union or of EFTA, the ECB, when considering to reject the request for accreditation under Article 6 or to grant the ECB’s prior written consent under point (7)(b) of Article 9 to protect the integrity of euro banknotes, shall duly take into account all of the following:
(a)
a decision or regulation of the Council of the European Union on economic sanctions in the field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy that already applies or that the Council intends to adopt;
(b)
an obligation on the Member States and any provisions or measures or obligations deriving therefrom that is provided for in directly applicable Union legal acts to implement economic sanctions in the field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy;
(c)
an international agreement and any provisions or measures or obligations following/deriving therefrom that has been approved by the legislative bodies of the Union or by all Member States whose currency is the euro.
4.
The ECB may, where justified by the circumstances, grant an exemption from the requirements set out in paragraph 1(c).