Customs News
See historyVersion 4.4 of the technical guide is published.From this moment on, in the Pre-production environment and only affecting v4, a new strict validation of IE615V4 request messages, changes in aliases and namespaces of response messages, examples in the guide of request and response messages for v4 and changes in the optionality of some fields of the non-functional rejection IE919V4 are enabled.These changes are expected to be available in Production next Tuesday, 16 August.
Please note that v4 can be tested in Pre-production in any customs area and in Production only in test areas (0099XX).The calendar for implementation is as follows:
- Entry into Production v4:October 2022
- Obligation v4 (closure of versions 2 and 3):2nd quarter 2023
From October 2022 until the definitive closure of the current v2 and v3, scheduled for 2Q-2023, both versions will coexist with version 4 and reporters will be able to use either of them.
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Revision 1.0 of the new Transit Web Services guide for the exchange of information between Traders and Customs in the new NCTS Phase 5 system is published.This guide contains the messages of the external domain (communication between the Economic Operator and the Inland Revenue) of the national component of the NCTS5 Computerised Transit System, 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 NCTS5 system, detailed in this technical guide, will be available in the test environment on 1 December 2022 and in the live environment from 1 July 2023.
From 15 November 2023 the NCTS5 Web Services will be mandatory, as the EDIFACT message intake of the NCTS system will be closed on that date.
Law 14/2022 of 8 July has substantially modified the Fluorinated Greenhouse Gas Tax, including importation as a taxable event, as of 1 September 2022.
On 13 July certificate 1415 "Plant health inspection" was discharged.Declaration submitted by the importer and under his responsibility, stating that the products are not affected by the phytosanitary inspection control".In other words, it does not require processing with the competent body.
New DIGITAL ASSISTANCE (ADI)
Since 18 July, a new utility, Digital Assistance (ADI), has been available on the Customs channel at headquarters:General information on Customs, where you can ask questions on how to import or export goods, which is the most appropriate customs figure for manufacturing or transport operations or any other question related to customs matters.A chat and appointment service is available.
Suspension for the year 2023 of certain tariff preferences granted to some GSP beneficiary countries
According to COMMISSION Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1039 of 29 June 2022, certain tariff preferences granted to certain GSP beneficiary countries (India, Indonesia and Kenya) are suspended for the year 2023.
Version 1.8 of the Online Export Services guide for the exchange of information between Operators and Customs is published in the new Automated Export System (AES).This guide includes messages from the external domain (communication between the Economic Operator and the Tax Agency) of the national component of the Automated Export System (AES), as well as the adaptations that may be necessary for the improvement of National Export Systems in line with the Union Customs Code (CAU).
The calendar for implementing the system is as follows:
The Web Services of the new AES system, detailed in this technical guide, are available in the test environment as of 10 November 2021 and in the live environment as of 4 October 2022.
From 30/04/2023 the AES Web Services will be mandatory, as the EDIFACT message acceptance of the ECS system will be closed on that date.
Functional and technical specifications of the G4 declaration, Temporary Storage, in line with the Union Customs Code (UCC) and adapted to Annex B of the regulations implementing it, are published:Delegated (EU 2015/24462) and Implementing (EU 2015/24473).
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New version 4.8 of the EDIFACT Download Summaries guide is published, which includes an explanation of how to declare ICS2 ENS precedent documents, using the document type code 355 shared with ICS1.
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Exemption from the preferential proof of origin
- Given that with the elements available in the customs declaration according to column H1 of Annex B of the CAU Delegated Regulation it is not possible to clearly identify the situations in which there is a valid waiver of the preferential origin test,
- the certificate code TARIC Y119 (Exemption from proof of preferential origin, in the framework of trade agreements concluded between the European Union with third countries) has been integrated.
- The certificate code must be used in data class 12 04 000 000 "Additional reference" in order to be able to declare that a valid exemption from the preferential proof of origin applies.