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See historyIt is hereby notified for public knowledge, that next 13 July 2023, at 9.30 am, in the Assembly Hall (5th floor) of the Regional Customs Office of the AEAT of Valencia, calle Jesús, núm. 19, 46007 Valencia, (limited seating capacity) the above-mentioned goods will be sold at public auction.
Revision 1.2 of the Transit Web Services guide for the exchange of information between Traders and Customs in the New Computerised Transit System Phase 5 (NCTS5) is published.This guide contains the messages of the external domain (communication between the Economic Operator and the Tax Agency) of the national component of the Automated Transit Declaration System (NCTS5), as well as the adaptations that may be necessary for the improvement of the National Transit Systems in line with the Union Customs Code (UCC).
The calendar for implementing the system is as follows:
The Web Services of the new system NCTS5, detailed in this technical guide, are available in the test environment as of 19 December 2022 and in the live environment they are planned to be available as of 17 October 2023.
In addition, it is foreseen that from 21/05/2024 the Web Services of the NCTS5 system will become mandatory, as on that date the EDIFACT message intake of the NCTS4 system will be closed.
How to indicate the quantity and unit of measurement for certificates of other bodies in the export declaration
The quantity and unit of measurement of certificates from other agencies declared in the group of Documents presented (Supporting document), must be indicated in the elements 'Quantity' (Quantity) and 'Unit of measurement' (Measurement unit and qualifier), except if it is only one certificate in that item and in addition, the unit is KGM (kilograms net).
This means that in the case of several certificates in a single consignment, or in the case of a unit of measurement other than net kilograms, the quantity and unit of measurement must always be indicated.
The unit of measurement must be indicated with the measurement code of the Union Customs Code, according to the values in table CSRDA349.(For example, the code 'NAR' in unit of measurement specifies that the certificate counts in 'units').
Version 4.9 of the EXS technical guide v4 is published, removing references to fields unique to versions 2 and 3 already closed, plus a number of clarifications, with no changes to EXS.
Of particular importance is the clarification included in new rule R994 on how to declare as a pre-document the DSDT with document types XSUM and XSUA.We have detected declarations where the XSUA type was entered but the XSUM own maritime format (scale no. + item no.) of 16 characters was used.From next 19 - June a rejection will be returned as the summary declared with XSUA will not be found as we will wait for flight no. + knowledge no. to be declared.See Rule R994 for more information.
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From Monday 29 May at 14:30 hours, the specific validation of Clearance Authorisations in the export declaration system is launched as specified on page 103 of the technical guide for web services.
In a nutshell,
- to indicate that the declarant/representative has a clearance authorisation by operation WITH electronic registration, the code 1005 and the reference 'OCRE' must be entered in the group 'Documents presented'.
- to indicate that the declarant/representative has a clearance authorisation by transaction WITHOUT electronic registration, code 1005 and reference 'OSRE' must be entered in the group 'Documents presented'.
- to indicate that the declarant/representative has a GLOBAL clearance authorisation, code 1005 should not be entered in the group 'Documents presented'.
From 24 May 2023 traders have the possibility to apply for the simplified transit authorisation provided for in Article 233(4)(d) of the Union Customs Code, i.e. the use of a customs declaration with fewer data requirements for placing goods under the Union transit procedure.
With the entry into development of the system for electronic proof of proof of Union customs status, POUS, in 2024, documents proving Union status must be requested exclusively in this application and only the generation of a T2LF for national trade of Union goods and T2L when the destination is Andorra may be requested for the export declaration.
However, the use of the system AES for obtaining proof of Union customs status in all other cases shall be allowed until the entry into production of the system POUS , expected during the first quarter of 2024, in order to allow economic operators to adapt to the new situation.
From next Monday, 5-June, the validation of commodity codes on G5 declarations, EXS and ETD will be strict.Declarations containing goods codes of 6 characters (Harmonised System WCO ) or 8 characters (Combined Nomenclature EU) will be rejected.declaring only a significant code in the 'tariff item' part (first four characters) followed by two or four zeros filled to the minimum required.Such pairs of zeros at the end of the commodity code shall only be permitted where the commodity code is qualified for this purpose because it has no tariff sub-classifications.
New certificates 1418 "INSPECTION OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS.Import permit for chemicals" and 1416 "INSPECTION OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS.Responsible declaration submitted by the importer".
From 1 June, customs will apply the measure TARIC PQP- Hazardous Chemicals to a larger number of products and it will be necessary to declare in box 44 of the SAD import licence code 1418.
For those statistical positions subject to control by the measure TARIC PQP but not affected by Regulation (EU) 649/2012 on export and import of dangerous chemicals and provided that such tariff headings are associated with the referral 02 604 PQP For this item a DECLARATION by the importer shall be accepted, stating that, under his responsibility, the products being imported are not subject to INSPECTION OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS certificate 1416 has been discharged.
Further information can be found at NI GA 09/2023 OF 09 MAY, ON IMPORT CONTROL OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS (MEASURE TARIC PQP)
A new version of the technical specifications of the system for justifying the Community status of goods by means of the T2L document, adapted to the Customs Code of the Union (CCC), has been published.The changes are reflected in the change control section.Testing of the system has been open since 12 April.