Chapter Va: Withholding

I.-When the customs administration decides to take a sample, three copies are taken by the customs officers. One is given to the owner of the copyright or related right or his representative, the other is given to the holder or declarant or the representative of one of them and the last is kept by the customs administration. The three samples must, as far as possible, be identical. The sample is…

On notification of the detention, the holder of the goods is invited to inform the owner of the possibility offered to him to oppose the destruction of these goods. The right holder is informed that the detention and, where applicable, the destruction of the goods is carried out under his responsibility.

When they are intended to be destroyed with the consent of the copyright or related right holder and the consent of the holder of the goods, whether or not they are transported in small consignments, the goods remain detained until they are destroyed. The destruction of the goods is carried out under the responsibility of the holder of the copyright or related right. The destruction of the goods is recorded…