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How to export arms or safeguarded items of the List of Arms for participation in foreign exhibitions of military equipment? |
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When you participate in exhibitions of military equipment, to avoid any delay relating to processing of documents at regular meetings of the Interministerial Commission for Export Control and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, you may use the newly introduced License for Participation in Defense Exhibitions, which is issued by the Interministerial Commission for Export Control and Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction with the Minister of Economy and Energy for participation in commercial exhibitions, related to putting under regimes of temporary export with re-import, temporary import with re-export of arms or transfer of arms from and to the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria. This license is issued once for the calendar year and encompasses the number of participation of the applicant during that year. Each particular participation in exhibitions of the annexes to the license is certified by the Secretary of the Interministerial Commission against presentation of a document, verifying the applicant’s participation in the respective exhibition, but not later than 10 workdays prior to its conduct.
Each participation in an exhibition outside these included in the license for the calendar year shall take place subject to the general provisions for export, import, transfer.
In both cases you are required to hold also a general or limited authorization for export, import and transfer of arms, issued by the Interdepartmental Council on Issues of the Military-Industrial Complex and Mobilization Preparedness of the Country with the Council of Ministers;
To obtain a license for participation in defense exhibitions, the applicant shall submit the following documents to the Interministerial Commission:
1. a filled-in application – Annex No. 12
2. a filled-in form – Annex No. 13 in four copies;
3. copies and certified Bulgarian translations of the documents, issued by the competent authorities from the countries of the foreign counterparts, certifying their eligibility to carry out this activity under the national laws;
4. a copy and a certified Bulgarian translation of the documents, certifying the origin, acquisition and functional purpose of the arms;
5. a copy and a certified Bulgarian translation of the documents, certifying the arrangement and conduct of the exhibition;
Exception: In case that according to the national legislation of the country of the counterparty/counterparties no such document, certifying their eligibility to carry out the respective activities is issued, the applicant shall submit to the Interministerial Commission a written statement by the consigner/consignee and a certified Bulgarian translation for this effect.
Persons, applying to obtain an authorization, shall submit the following documents to the Interdepartmental Council:
1. an application according to a sample approved in the regulation on implementing of the act;
2. a current certificate for registration in the commercial register or a copy of the original court registration or a notarized copy of a court certificate of current status, granted up to 30 days prior to submitting the application and reflecting all changes at the moment of submission of the application;
3. a document issued by the competent court that the applicant has not been declared bankrupt or is not subject to bankruptcy proceedings, as well as that no termination of operation has been registered and no declaration of insolvency has taken place when the applicant has not been re-registered under the Commercial Register Act;
4. a document, issued by the Ministry of Interior, for coordination of the individuals, who are directly involved in this activity;
5. a list of the individuals, who are directly involved in this activity, accompanied by CV’s and employment records, a clear criminal record and a notarized specimen of the signature, as well as an information whether the person holds clearance for access to classified information;
6. a copy of a document, issued by the competent authorities, certifying that the applicant has created conditions for protection of the classified information, as appropriate, pursuant to the Law on Protection of Classified Information;
7. a clear criminal record of the single-person trader, manager, executive director, the members of the managing and control bodies of the legal person, and if such members are legal persons – of their representatives in the respective managing body;
8. a notarized specimen of the signature of the single-person trader, manager, executive director;
9. company unified identification code;
10. a certificate from the respective territorial directorate of the National Revenue Agency concerning the lack of liquid and enforceable public receivables;
11. a statement by the single-person trader, manager, members of the managing and control body of the commercial company that the applicant has no liquid and payable debts to individuals or legal persons, when such debt has been recognized by the enforcement body;
12. a statement by the single-person trader, manager, members of the managing and control body of the commercial company that they are not related to persons and organizations that have infringed the laws, regulating the activities with dual-use items and technologies in the member states and third states;
13. a list of the items of the list of arms that are to be included into the license;
14. a receipt for state fee paid. |
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