Only goldsmiths, jewellers and jewellery manufacturers are authorised to manufacture gold, silver or platinum articles in any other non-legal capacity exclusively for shipment to other Member States of the European Community or for export to third countries.
Articles manufactured in this way may under no circumstances, on pain of seizure, be delivered for domestic consumption and they shall never bear the hallmarks of the guarantee. They must be marked, immediately after completion, with a master hallmark.
This is not the case unless the manufacturer files a declaration with the office of guarantee prior to putting these objects into manufacture (1), enters them in a special register as soon as they are completed and exports them or delivers them to another Member State of the European Union within a period set by decree in the Council of State (2).
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