1. Operators shall give advance notification to the Commission if any source materials or special fissile materials:
are imported from a third country;
are received in a non-nuclear-weapon Member State from a nuclear-weapon Member State; or
are received in a nuclear-weapon Member State from a non nuclear-weapon Member State.
2. Advance notification shall be required only:
where the consignment exceeds one effective kilogram;or
where an installation imports or receives a total quantity of materials from the same State that exceeds or may exceed one effective kilogram in any consecutive period of 12 months, even though no single consignment exceeds one effective kilogram.
3. The advance notification shall be given as far in advance as possible of the expected arrival of the material and, at the latest, on the date of receipt, using the form set out in Annex VII, and shall reach the Commission at least 5 working days before the material is unpacked.
4. On a reasoned request by the operator, special arrangements concerning the form and transmission of the advance notification may be agreed.
5. This Article shall not apply to imports and receipts of nuclear material contained in waste or ores.