Customs Declaration Processing System Detailed User and ...

DETAILED USER & TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CDPS
AND USE-CASE MODELS
Ref: PHASE V
3.1.11.1 Notification towards Principal
- Where the time allotted for the receipt of the message “Arrival Advice” or of the message “control
result” has expired, the notification and enquiry procedure shall start at the customs office of departure.
These time-outs indicate that an enquiry procedure should be started.
- The customs office of departure shall start with the notification to the principal or his representative (a
person who lodged the transit declaration) that the transit regime has not ended within the time period
given in this transit declaration (in the decision on release of goods for transit regime). This information
shall be sent to the principal or his representative at that moment.
- In case that the transit declaration was lodged electronically, this notification and the request for
information shall be sent as NCTS electronic message. Authentication of this notification shall be with
an e-signature of customs administration, according to the Article 109 para. 2 of the Customs Law
implementing Regulation 2 .
- In case that the transit declaration was lodged in paper form, this notification and the request for
information shall be sent in paper form specified by MCA.
- The principal within the time-out shall provide the customs office of departure with further details
related to this transit operation in the form of:
o electronic message, authenticated with an e-signature of principal, or
o paper explanation, or
o oral explanation.
- This time-out period shall be defined by the MCA. This time-out indicates that an enquiry procedure
should be started. It is reset to this value (or a shorter one) when an enquiry is initiated.
3.1.11.2 Enquiry procedure towards declared/actual Customs office of destination
- Where the time-out allotted for the receipt of further information from the principal has expired, the
enquiry procedure shall start at the customs office of departure.
- The customs office of departure shall start enquiry procedure with the notification and the request for
information to the customs office of destination that the transit regime has not ended within the time
period given in this transit declaration (in the decision on release of goods for transit regime). This
notification and the request for information shall be sent as NCTS electronic message to declared/actual
Customs office of destination. The actual Customs office of destination shall be used based on the
information received from the principal.
- The customs office of destination within the time-out shall provide the customs office of departure with
further details related to this transit operation. These further details shall be sent by customs office of
destination as NCTS electronic message. This time-out period shall be defined by the MCA. This timeout
indicates that an enquiry remainder procedure should be started. It is reset to this value (or a shorter
one) when an enquiry remainder is initiated.
- Where the customs office of departure have not received any further details from the customs office of
destination, the customs office of departure shall start enquiry remainder procedure to the Higher
Authority of a customs office of destination. This enquiry remainder notification and the request for
information shall be sent as NCTS electronic message to the Higher Authority of a customs office of
destination.
3.1.11.3 Enquiry procedure towards declared/actual customs office of transit
- The enquiry procedure towards declared/actual customs office of transit is based only on the
"Notification Crossing Frontier" message(s) which was(were) sent from the customs office(s) of transit
as a confirmation that the declared goods have passed this(these) customs office(s).
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