The placement of certain quantities of basic products set out in Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 3448/93 under the inward processing arrangements without prior examination of the economic conditions is subject, during its period of validity, to presentation of an inward processing certificate (hereinafter ‘IP certificate’).

Two successive inward processing authorisations may be granted — one for the placement of a basic product and one for the placement of an intermediate product corresponding to the basic product. The economic conditions will then also be regarded as having been met by each of these authorisations, provided that each of the applications for authorisation is submitted on the basis of the same IP certificate.