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Under each FTA, parties name an authority / authorities responsible for overseeing origin-related provisions and for issuing the certificate of origin. This is often the government or a government department which can then delegate the procedure of issuing certificates to other domestic organisations. The competent authority is also the authority that is involved in subsequent origin verifications.
Example:
The Ministry of Trade is named as the competent authority in the text of an FTA and it delegates the issuing of origin certificates to the local Chamber of Commerce.
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