With the exception of stills belonging to itinerant hirers, apparatus or parts of apparatus suitable for the distillation, manufacture or pressing of eaux-de-vie or spirits may only circulate anywhere, outside private property, by virtue of the documents provided for national trade in application of 4° of article L. 311-39 of the code of taxes on goods and services. These documents are only discharged when the said appliances or portions of appliances have been recognised at the place of destination or at the point of exit from the territory if they are sent abroad.
By way of derogation from the provisions of the first paragraph, apparatus or portions of apparatus suitable for the distillation, manufacture or ironing of eaux-de-vie intended to be repaired or transformed circulate under cover of the administrative authorisation mentioned in l’article 306.