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1. A simplified export authorisation may be requested in the following situations:

(a) the re-export, within 180 days, of listed goods following their temporary admission for evaluation, exhibition, or inward processing for repair, provided that those goods remain the property of a person established outside the customs territory of the Union and are re-exported to that person and that the exporter mentions the reference number of the declaration for temporary admission or inward processing in the re-export declaration;

(b) the re-export of listed goods held in temporary storage within the time limit referred to in Article 149 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;

(c) the temporary export of listed goods for the purposes of evaluation, exhibition or repair, provided that the exporter proves the lawful possession of those goods.

2. An application for a simplified export authorisation shall be submitted through the electronic licensing system and shall include the following:

(a) mention of one of the three purposes listed in paragraph 1;

(b) the name, identification number, address and contact details of the exporter;

(c) the particulars of any firearms, including the name of the manufacturer or brand, the country or place of manufacture, the serial number, and where feasible the model and the year of manufacture;

(d) the date and unique reference number of the authorisation to own or possess a firearm and of the import authorisation from the third country; or, where applicable, a reference to the authorisation, pursuant to Directive (EU) 2021/555, to manufacture, acquire, possess or trade listed goods; and, (e) in cases of the re-export of previously temporarily imported listed goods, the reference to the customs declaration under which those goods were brought into the customs territory of the Union.

3. The competent authority shall process applications for simplified export authorisations within a period not exceeding 20 working days from the date on which all required information was provided to the competent authority. For duly justified reasons, that period may be extended to 40 working days. The simplified export authorisation shall be issued through the electronic licensing system.

4. For the applicant to obtain the simplified export authorisation, the following conditions shall apply:

(a) the third country or third countries of transit had no objection to the transit, as referred to in Article 20(2) and (4);

(b) the competent authority has carried out the verification referred to in Article 20(3); and (c) the applicant has submitted to the competent authority the deactivation certificate, as referred to in Article 20(5).

5. The period of validity of a simplified export authorisation issued in accordance with paragraph 1, point (c), shall not exceed the period of validity of the import authorisation issued by the third country, or 1 year where that third country does not specify a period of validity, or where an exemption from the requirement for an import authorisation is applicable.