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From 09.03.2026 (inclusive), when a transit declaration is received in a non-maritime customs facility, the 'SG' indicator (Generation of Summary Deposit Declaration - DSDT) cannot be used. Therefore, from that day onwards, for non-maritime customs, only the indicators 'SP' (Preliminary Summary), 'GG' (Generation of G4) or 'GP' (Previous G4) may be used.  We also remind you that when a transit is generated as a G4 in a facility, unlike the generation of the DSDT, this generation occurs at the time of the completion of the transit, and not at the reception of the same. 

New versions of all technical guides related to the Temporary Deposit Declaration (CAU) are published:  G3v2 (version 2.13), G4 (version 1.10) and G5v2 (version 2.11), which respectively cover the presentation of goods to customs (G3v2), the declaration of temporary storage (G4) and the movement of goods in temporary storage (G5v2).

Regarding the model of surety insurance certificate to guarantee the payment of customs and tax debt.

A new query has been published in the section dedicated to the Temporary Deposit CAU Declarations (G3v2, G4 and G5v2) in the External Testing Portal which will serve to search for key information about the master's program and the houses that deconsolidate it, given the amount of knowledge about the master's program.

Regarding the payment deadlines for customs debt notified with the release of goods, replacing information notes NI GA 14/2017 and NI GA 09/2019.

Version 1.5 of the technical guide is published, which corrects errors in the formats of the previous document (element ED_2_1_PreviousDocument). It has not been necessary to correct the diagrams. The errors only appeared in the technical guide.

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In the recent news story titled "Urgent reminder to use previous document N337" Document 337 was associated as a previous document type that only supports reference formats to the DSDT. However, this is not true for document 337 of the declaration H2 which does allow reference to both DSDT and G4, being equivalent in this respect to the N337 of other customs declarations, as explained in its technical guide.

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With the upcoming closure of primary care admissions DSDT in the airfields (March 9), which are being replaced by the declarations G4It is reminded that in order for customs declarations to be dated G4, the use of the previous document type is essential. N337 which allows dating both DSDT and G4 with a fairly wide default range of references. These can be found in the technical guide of each customs declaration or, failing that, in section "2.8.3. Previous document N337 as a reference for the dating of the Temporary Deposit (G4 or DSDT)" of the G4 technical guide.

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Regarding the digitization of ATA notebooks.

A new version 1.9 of the technical guide has been published G4 for the declaration of temporary storage of goods.

The main change is the modification of section "2.4.5.1.Calculated customs situation" and the inclusion of a new type of document 1237 - "Other situations involving third-party goods in regular line", which will allow in the G4 linked to regular line transports to prevent, despite not having prior digital documents that justify that the goods are not community, the calculation of the customs situation from being set at the "T1" value taking into account cases such as those that occur in certain postal shipments (UPU).