When the customs administration decides to take a sample, two copies are taken by customs officers. One is given to the owner of the goods or its holder or the representative of one of them and the other is kept by the customs administration.
The owner of the patent or supplementary protection certificate or the person entitled to exploit the patented invention or the subject of the supplementary protection certificate does not attend the taking of samples and no samples are given to him.
Where a good or object, because of its weight, dimensions, value, nature or the too small quantity of product cannot be the subject of a sampling of two samples, the good or object is taken in its entirety and constitutes a single sample, which is kept by the customs administration.