Article 4

Seal products for the personal use of travellers or their families may only be imported where one of the following requirements is fulfilled:

  1. 1.

    the seal products are either worn by the travellers, or carried or contained in their personal luggage;

  2. 2.

    the seal products are contained in the personal property of a natural person transferring his normal place of residence from a third country to the Union;

  3. 3.

    the seal products are acquired on site in a third country by travellers and imported by those travellers at a later date, provided that, upon arrival in the Union territory, those travellers present to the customs authorities of the Member State concerned the following documents:

    1. (a)

      a written notification of import;

    2. (b)

      a document giving evidence that the products were acquired in the third country concerned.

For the purposes of point 3, the written notification and the document shall be endorsed by the customs authorities and returned to the travellers. On import, the notification and document shall be presented to the customs authorities together with the customs declaration for the products concerned.