Obligations Regarding Exportations. 1. Each Party shall ensure that an exporter or a producerthat has completed and signed a certificate of origin, andthat has reasons to believe that the certificate contains incorrect information, shall promptly notify in writing, ofany change that could affect the accuracy or validity ofthe certificate of origin to all persons to whom he gavethe certificate, as well as to its competent governmentalauthority or its designees and to the customs authority ofthe importing Party. The notification shall be sent by one of the methods stipulated in paragraph 4 of Article 44. If this is done prior to the commencement of a verificationreferred to in Article 44 and if the exporter or producerdemonstrates that at time of issuance of the certificate of origin he possessed facts upon which he could reasonablyrely to the effect that the good qualified as anoriginating good, the exporter or producer shall not besubject to penalties for having submitted an incorrectcertificate. 2. Each Party shall ensure that providing falsedeclarations or documents to its competent governmentalauthority or its designees by its exporters or producersstating that the good qualifies as an originating goodshall be subject to penalties or other appropriatesanctions as provided for in Article 46. 3. Each Party shall ensure that the exporter referred toin paragraph 3 of Article 39 or the producer referred to inparagraph 4 of Article 39, as the case may be, shall beprepared to submit at any time, at the request of thecompetent governmental authority or its designees of theexporting Party, all appropriate documents proving theoriginating status of the goods concerned as well as thefulfillment of other requirements under this Agreement.
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