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 NCTS for Traders: Legislation basics
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Legal basis |
Community transit has its legal basis in the Community Customs Code
(Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92) and its Implementing Provisions
(Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93). The Community transit arrangements
were extended to include trade in certain goods with Andorra under the
Community-Andorra customs union. A similar extension exists for trade between
the Community and San Marino under the arrangements for the customs union with
San Marino. (see Part IV, chapter 5 for further details concerning Andorra and
San Marino). |
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Declaration |
To complete a transit declaration IE015 all mandatory fields shall be completed.
The mandatory data are:
•Declaration type (box 1),
•Total number of items (box 5),
•Total number of packages (box 6),
•Country of dispatch (box 15a),
•Country of destination (box 17a),
•Container yes/no (box 19),
•Description of goods, etc.( box 31),
•Item number (box 32),
•Total gross mass (box 35),
•Principal ( box 50),
•Guarantee type, guarantee reference and access code (box 52)
•Customs office of destination (box 53).
•Inland transport mode (box 26) is mandatory only for the Community.
Under certain circumstances there are conditional data elements which become
mandatory. These conditional - data elements are
-Trader consignee (box 8),
-Identity at departure (box 18),
-Commodity code (box 33),
-Authorised location of goods (box 30),
-Previous administrative references (box 40),
-Customs office of transit (box 51) and
-Guarantee reference (box 52).
Furthermore, the following optional data elements may be required:
-Trader consignor (box 2),
-Type of transport Crossing border (box 25),
-Transport Mode at border (box 26),
-Inland mode of transport (box 26),
- Loading place (box 27),
-Sensitive goods code (box 31),
-Net Mass (box 38),
-Produced documents/Certificates (box 44),
-Special mentions (box 44) and
-Representative (box 50).
Where a control copy T531 is attached, it shall be indicated in the declaration
data (box 44) in 'produced documents' with the code 823. This allows the T5
reference number to be quoted. For the purpose of NCTS, a number of additional
codes are required as compared with the SAD. These are specified in annex D2,
Appendix III, Convention/ annex 37c IPC. These additional codes are:
Country codes, language codes, commodity codes, sensitive goods codes, package
codes and the codes of the produced documents and certificates as well as
special endorsements. Transit declarations shall be drawn up in one of the 31 A
control copy T5 is a document that is sometimes required for the movement of
goods within the customs territory of the Community. The document is used to
provide proof of use and/or destination of certain goods as prescribed by
specific Community measures (e.g. for agricultural products). Details on control
copy T5 are in articles 912a-912g IPC. - 184 - official languages of the
Contracting Parties, which is acceptable to the competent authorities of the
country of departure.
It is important that operators correctly complete the transit declaration IE015
in order to avoid the declaration being rejected by the NCTS. If a transit
declaration IE015 is rejected by the system, the reason of the rejection is
notified to the trader who will be allowed to make the necessary changes in the
declaration, or to submit a new declaration.
A transit operation may contain maximum 999 goods items. Each goods item of a
declaration must be entered into the system and will be printed on the TAD or
the LoI. A LoI will be produced when the transit declaration covers more than
one goods item. It is attached to the TAD which has a reference to the LoI in
box 31. The form of the LoI shall correspond to the specimen in Annex D4
Appendix III Convention/Annexes 45a and 45b IPC. Where more than one item is
declared, the following information is entered at the item level:
-Country of dispatch (box 15) if there is more than one country;
-Country of destination (box 17) if there is more than one country;
-Description of the goods (box 31)
-Item No (box 32);
-Commodity Code, where applicable (box 33);
-Gross mass (kg) (box 35);
-Net mass (kg) (box 38); and, where necessary:
-Summary declaration, previous document (box 40); and, where
appropriate, additional information, documents produced etc (box 44). |
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Simplified Procedures |
The use of both simplified procedures represents the optimal use of resources
within the framework of the NCTS. The possibility of carrying out all the
procedures at one's own premises and exchanging information with customs
electronically is clearly the most rapid, comfortable, secure and economic way
of doing business. Obviously in addition to satisfying the criteria to become an
authorised consignor or authorised consignee in the transit procedure with the
SAD, they will have to possess an adequate electronic data processing system for
information interchange with their relevant customs offices. Of course this can
only work if these offices are connected to the NCTS.
Once these criteria have been fulfilled the NCTS allows authorised consignors
to:
• create the transit declaration in their own computer system;
• send the corresponding declaration message electronically to the
office of departure without the goods having to be presented there;
• send and receive by electronic means subsequent messages, including
requests for correction of the declaration, notification of its acceptance and
45 notification of the release of the goods.
As far as authorised consignees are concerned the NCTS allows them to:
• receive the goods and the accompanying document directly at their own
premises;
• send the arrival notification message to the relevant office of
destination electronically;
• receive and send subsequent messages concerning permission to unload
goods and the notification of the results of the unloading to customs
electronically. |
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