Customs News

From the entry into force on April 2, 2021 of certain provisions of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, the dispatch authorizations incorporated into the Register of dispatch authorizations have a maximum validity of five years from the date of registration. The principal has the possibility of extending these authorizations for a period of up to five years.

Information related to customs clearance authorizations is available at the following link: Tax Agency: Customs clearance authorization.

Revision 1.17 of the Transit Web Services guide for information exchange between Operators and Customs in the new NCTS6 System (New Computerized Transit System Phase 6) is published. This guide contains the external domain messages (communication between the Economic Operator and the Tax Agency) of the national component of the Automated Transit Declaration System (NCTS6), as well as any necessary adjustments to improve the National Transit Systems in line with the Union Customs Code (UCC).

In this new revision, apart from changes to certain rules, the main changes explained are those resulting from the adaptation of the transit declaration to the EU-UK Agreement concerning Gibraltar made public on February 26, 2026.

From March 16th, as indicated in the separate section, it will be permitted to declare the euro exchange rate data in the ExchangeRate label of the subheading – GoodsShipment – ​​in the following case:
Euro exchange rate for the additional F44 regime, indicating the euro exchange rate prior to the activation of the declaration. It cannot be zero.
If the euro exchange rate is not declared in ExchangeRate, the euro exchange rate in effect on the date of admission at the time of activation of the declaration will be assumed, and furthermore
The taxable base of the declared ad valorem taxes (such as A00, A30, A35, A40, A45, BOO and B01) will not be validated

A new version 1.12 of the technical guide has been published G4 for the declaration of temporary storage of goods, with several new features such as the inclusion of a new prior document 1241 and the change in the calculation of the customs situation for documents 1238 and 1240, introduction of multi-item packages, a proposal for a new version of the web service for consultation and the establishment of technical limitations on the maximum number of houses and items in G3 , G4 and G5.

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The application for Preliminary Actions to Release (formerly C-5) has been adapted to allow the submission of Temporary Deposit Type declarations G4.

Ways to fill out the charge document: If you need to enter a Summary Declaration, then choose the SUM document type and enter in the Charge Document field, the 11-character summary declaration number followed by the 5-character item number. If you need to enter a G4 Declaration, then choose the SUM document type and enter the following in the Charge Document field: MRN from the 18-character G4 followed by the 5-character global starting number.

Tomorrow, March 4, 2026, at 9:00 a.m., in the Pre-production (testing) environment, the closure of new DSDT header registrations in airspaces will be activated with the EDIFACT MANREP message. This is so that operators can test, if they wish, the rejection they will receive in the Production (real) environment next Monday, March 9, 2026, at 9:00 a.m., at which time the possibility of registering new DSDT header registrations in airspaces with the EDIFACT MANREP message will be closed.

A PDF guide has been published on the website establishing the formal requirements that guarantees in the form of a commitment signed by a guarantor must meet in order to be accepted by Customs.

The Agreement made public on February 26, 2026 will come into effect, presumably, on the first day of the month following the moment when both parties have notified that the approval/ratification processes have been completed.

A new version 1.11 of the G4 technical guide for the temporary storage declaration of goods has been published, with several new features such as the optionality of the goods code for Community goods, the introduction of instrumental MI items, new types of prior documents that affect the calculation of the customs situation to cover various scenarios, changes in the calculation of the customs situation for non-scheduled air services, clarifications on the validation of the customs situation in G4+D3 declarations, flexibility of the UCR format, simplification of the movement of masters with G5S and clarifications on the deconsolidation of masters.

Replacing Information Note 05/2026 of February 9 on the application of tariff references to products originating in Western Sahara