Customs News
View historyNext Wednesday, July 22, the following validations will be activated in transit declarations, which are listed in the NCTS6 transit web services technical guide.
If the declaration type is equal to "T1GI" or "T2GI", then the declaration must contain at least one occurrence with ADDITIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN ACTOR.Role = "CS" (Consolidator).
If an export declaration or an import declaration (H1) is referenced in the House Consignment of the transit declaration, then the net mass of the declaration goods items included in that house must be equal to the total net mass of the referenced export or import declaration.
Contingency plans for the DCPs of La Línea and Algeciras are published, which operators must follow if they are not operational or if there is any computer incident regarding the applications to be used within the framework of the Agreement with Gibraltar.
Revision 1.20 of the Web Transit 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).
On July 8th, a webinar was held on export, import, transit scenarios and other issues within the framework of the agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom regarding Gibraltar.
We recently invited you to participate in the European Commission's (DG TAXUD) survey on special customs regimes. If you have already completed the survey, we thank you for your participation and ask that you ignore this message. If not, we would appreciate your opinion.
Their contributions will directly form the basis for the assessment that DG TAXUD will carry out on the application and possible simplifications of the customs warehousing, temporary importation, end-use, inward processing and outward processing regimes.
Travelers residing in one of the two territories who make non-commercial purchases in the other territory may request a refund of the tax paid (VAT or Transaction Tax) when they return to their place of residence, provided that such purchases exceed the established allowances.
Please note that the EU-Gibraltar agreement comes into force on July 15. The following should be taken into account:
- the modifications included in the import guide, H1
- the modifications included in the export guide, AES
- the modifications included in the transit guide, NCTS
- From the date the agreement comes into force, for goods originating from Gibraltar, the ENS security declaration will NO LONGER generate a temporary storage declaration. Operations must be carried out using the entry declarations, G4, generated by the transit movements derived from the agreement
- The VAT refund scheme for travelers, DIVA, for residents of Gibraltar, will be adapted to the provisions of the agreement.
Further to the news published on 30-6 regarding the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1457 of 29 June 2026
New validation in the registration of T2GI/TIGI movements related to the agreement with Gibraltar.
Due to a last-minute request from the Gibraltar authorities, the following validation is incorporated:
- In all T2GI/T1GI movement registrations in Spain, the field ADDITIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN ACTOR It is mandatory at Master level with at least one occurrence for the CS (consolidator) role.
An update to the transit web services guide will be published throughout the day.
The change will be mandatory on July 15 at 00:00
amending information note 18/2026 of 24 June concerning the impact on payment terms and guarantees of the changes introduced in the European Commission regulations for electronic commerce, which come into force on 1 July 2026