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1. Exporters of dual-use items shall keep detailed registers or records of their exports, in accordance with the national law or practice in force in the Member State concerned. Such registers or records shall include in particular commercial documents such as invoices, manifests and transport and other dispatch documents containing sufficient information to allow the following to be identified:

(a) a description of the dual-use items;

(b) the quantity of the dual-use items;

(c) the name and address of the exporter and of the consignee;

(d) where known, the end-use and end-user of the dual-use items.

2. In accordance with national law or practice in force in the Member State concerned, brokers and providers of technical assistance shall keep registers or records for brokering services or technical assistance so as to be able to prove, on request, the description of the dual-use items that were the subject of brokering services or technical assistance, the period during which the items were the subject of such services, the destination of such items and services, and the countries concerned by those services.

3. The registers or records and the documents referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be kept for at least five years from the end of the calendar year in which the export took place or the brokering services or technical assistance were provided. They shall be produced, on request, to the competent authority.

4. Documents and records of intra-Union transfers of dual-use items listed in Annex I shall be kept for at least three years from the end of the calendar year in which a transfer took place and shall be produced, on request, to the competent authority of the Member State from which these items were transferred.