Customs Declaration Processing System Detailed User and ...

DETAILED USER & TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CDPS
AND USE-CASE MODELS
Ref: PHASE V
3.4.2.3 Documents to accompany the import declaration
- Necessary documents to accompany the import declaration shall be lodged by a declarant to the office of
import according to the Article 72 para. 2 of Customs Law 1 and Article 125, in case of free circulation
regime, or Article 127, in case of customs regimes with economic impact, of Customs Law
Implementing Regulation 2 . The customs office of import may dispense with the presentation of these
documents at the time of completion of the formalities at customs office of import.
- The documents to accompany the import declaration shall be lodged by a declarant to the office of
import in electronic or paper form. The electronic form of documents to accompany the import
declaration shall be determined by the Macedonian customs administration, including the determination
of manner of keeping of the documents that are transmitted by electronic means, according to the Article
131 of Customs Law Implementing Regulation 2 .
- The electronic form of documents to accompany the import declaration shall be authenticated with
electronic signature of a declarant. The delivery and acceptance of electronic form of documents to
accompany the import declaration shall be electronically notified to a declarant by customs office of
import with information about the acceptance of import declaration. 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 .
- The import declaration shall be accepted by the customs office of import, when the documents to
accompany the import declaration are presented at that customs office with the goods to be released for
the import regime.
- When the simplified procedure local clearance in import regime is used the documents to accompany the
import declaration shall be available for customs at the declarant’s premise.
3.4.2.4 Control of accompanied documents
- The initial automatic control of documents to accompany the import declaration, which were lodged in
electronic form, shall be based on the comparison of type and identification number of these documents,
which were provided in the import declaration, and the documents sent by a declarant. The passing this
control shall be sufficient for acceptance of a customs import declaration.
- The detailed control of documents to accompany the import declaration, which were lodged in electronic
or paper form, shall be carried out by a customs officer at the customs office of import.
- The result of the detailed control of these electronic documents can be:
o the confirmation of acceptance of customs declaration, in case of electronic lodgement of customs
declaration and these documents, or
o the cancellation of acceptance of customs declaration due to invalid documents.
- The result of the detailed control of these paper-based documents can be:
o the acceptance of customs declaration, in case of lodgement of paper-based documents, or
o not-acceptance of customs declaration due to invalid documents.
3.4.2.5 Acceptance, modifications, rectifications and deletions of import declarations
- The import declaration shall be accepted by the customs office of import when:
o all above automatic checks passed successfully,
o all documents to accompany the import declaration are lodged by a declarant to that customs office
or the waiver for lodging the documents to accompany the import declaration was granted or the
simplified procedure local clearance in import regime is used,
o the goods are presented to that customs office.
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