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View historyThe Regulation (EURegulation (EC) No 2026/382 of 11 February 2026 removes the franchise for low-value shipments and introduces a transitional measure consisting of the requirement of a fixed tariff between 1 July 2026 and 1 July 2028. This transitional measure has required the adaptation of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2446 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447, both of the Commission. The European Commission has made available to us the texts prepared for adoption. Without prejudice to any modifications prior to their adoption, here we outline the main changes that will apply from July 1, 2026, according to the available texts:
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On May 19th, from 10:00 to 12:00, a webinar will be held to inform about the changes that will occur with the elimination of the €150 franchise fee.
Registration will take place in the following link.
The Interim Agreement between the European Union and MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) will be applied provisionally from May 1, 2026.
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Pending the conclusion of its internal ratification procedures for the revised PEM Convention, Egypt is implementing the revised rules on the basis of temporary national measures designed to prevent disruption of accumulation, ensure continuity of preferential trade and legal certainty for economic operators during the transitional period. In this context, Egypt has confirmed the possibility of diagonal accumulation with the EU and the EFTA States, when Egypt is the destination country.
A new query has been published in the section dedicated to the Statements CAU Temporary Storage (G3v2, G4 and G5v2) on the External Testing Portalwhich will be used to obtain a list of the declared G4 items by searching by means of transport using the IDEK or the data it is made up of.
It will soon be published on the electronic headquarters in the production environment.
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A new version 1.14 of the G4 technical guide for the temporary storage declaration of goods has been published with the following updates:
- Update of Annex 13.1 with the setting of new limits for the maximum cardinality of houses declared expressly or implicitly in the G4 declaration and its related notifications G3v2 and G5v2.
- New Annex 13.3 with important clarifications on the relationship between the G4 and previous transits.
- Other changes such as the inclusion of new rejection codes linked to new validations, updating of previous documents and various clarifications (see version control).
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Please remember that, in order to send a simplified import declaration, you must indicate the reason. To do this, when using the additional declaration type B or E, it will be necessary to include an additional regime code (AdditionalProcedure) from those considered in table H1C1102 in the AdiRegPenSinSDEVal1 element. More details about these codes can be found in "Separate 37. Additional codes to the regime vs. Additional declaration type" of the technical guide of the Import system adapted to the Union Customs Code. Otherwise, the declaration will be rejected.
See the modification of section 1 of the modification of the Supplementary Information CAU GENERAL v3.22.
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Revision 3.18 of the UCC Import Technical Guide and the new revision 4.8 of the UCC Information Rules and Conditions for the exchange of information between Operators and Customs in the new UCC Import System (H1) are published. This guide includes the messages from the external domain (communication between the Economic Operator and the Tax Agency) of the national component of the Automated Import Declaration System (H1), as well as any adaptations that may be necessary to improve the National Transit Systems in line with the Union Customs Code (UCC).