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Community certificate as referred to in Article 2 In accordance with the changes enacted by the Treaty of Lisbon, whereby the European Union replaced and succeeded the European Community, the term ‘EU certificate’ shall refer to the Community certificate as defined in Article 2(g) of this Regulation. The EU Certificate shall have the following features: Member States shall ensure that the Certificates they issue shall be identical. To this end they shall submit to the Commission specimens of the Certificates to be issued. Member States shall be responsible for having the EU Certificates printed. The EU Certificates may be printed by printers appointed by the Member State in which they are established. In the latter case, reference to the appointment by the Member State must appear on each EU Certificate. Each EU Certificate shall bear an indication of the printer's name and address or a mark enabling the printer to be identified. The printer shall be a High Security Banknote Printer. The printer shall provide suitable references from governmental and commercial customers. The European Commission shall make specimens of original EU Certificates available to EU authorities.

Materials — Dimensions: A4 (210 mm × 297 mm);

— Watermarked with invisible (yellow/blue) UV fibres;

— Solvent sensitive;

— UV dull (features in the document stand out clearly when highlighted under a Ultra-violet lamp);

— 95 g/m2 paper. Printing — Rainbow background tint (solvent sensitive);

— The ‘rainbow’ effect has a security background that will not visualise when photocopied.

— The inks used must be ‘solvent sensitive’ to protect the document against attack from chemicals used to alter infilled text, such as bleach.

— 1 Colour background tint (permanent and light fast);

— Ensure that a secondary ‘Rainbow’ is printed to prevent the Certificates from exposure to sunlight.

— UV invisible working (stars of the EU Flag);

— The security printer should apply the correct weight of ink to ensure that the UV feature is invisible in normal light.

— EU Flag: Printed gold and European blue;

— Intaglio Border;

— Tactile Intaglio ink is one of the most important features in the document.

— Extra Small Print line reading ‘Kimberley Process Certificate’;

— Latent image: KP;

— Micro-text reading ‘KPCS’;

— The document design must incorporate anticopy (‘Medallion’) features into the background fine-line printing. Numbering — Each EU Certificate shall have a unique serial number, preceded by the code: EU.

— The Commission shall attribute the serial numbers to the Member States that intend to issue EU Certificates.

— There should be two types of matching numbering — visible and invisible:

— First = 8 digit sequential, once on all parts of the document, printed black — The printer shall hold all responsibility for numbering every Certificate.

— The printer shall also keep a database of all numbering.

— Second = 8 digit sequential invisible printed numbering (matching above), fluorescing under UV light. Language English and, where relevant, the language(s) of the Member State concerned. Lay out and finishing Obligatory features Slot perforated in 1 position, cut to singles A4 size, at 100 mm from right edge (a) left side (b) right side