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Traffic Manual

IV.1.5.1. Agreements between the Union and other countries on data related to security and safety

The common transit countries, except for Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, have not concluded specific agreements with the Union regarding the recognition of safety and security controls carried out in those countries as exporting countries.

This means that when goods enter the customs territory of the Union from countries that have not concluded specific agreements with the Union, economic operators must submit a DSE in accordance with Union customs legislation. To do this they can:

  • use the Import Control System to submit the DSE; or

  • benefit from the NCTS, where they can include safety and security data in a transit declaration.

To qualify for the second option, the following conditions must be met:

  • The NCTS in those countries shall accept a declaration submitted by economic operators containing transit data and DSE data;

  • The DATS and the LdATS must be printed as equivalent to the DAT and the LdA;

  • The NCTS in those countries should be able to receive and send DSE data together with transit data to EU countries and other Contracting Parties and also receive DSE data transmitted from EU countries and other Contracting Parties to those countries (acting as both a transit and destination country);

  • EU countries will recognise and accept these common transit declaration data for the purposes of both the common transit procedure and the DSE data, without any legal modification or extension of the scope of the Convention, on the basis of the relevant provisions of the UCC;

  • Other Contracting Parties shall recognise transit data and DSE data, as well as DATS and LdATS, when presented to one of their customs offices, as equivalent to a DAT and an LdA, provided that they contain all the necessary transit data.