Article 1 · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/234

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Article 1Amendments to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446#

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 is amended as follows:

(1)Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a)paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:‘2.The exchange and storage of information required for declarations, notifications and proof of customs status shall be subject to the common data requirements set out in Annex B, from the dates of deployment or the upgrading of the electronic systems listed in Annex C, as set out in the Annex to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151^note.

(b)paragraph 3 is deleted;

(c)paragraph 4 is replaced by the following text:‘4.The exchange and storage of information required for declarations, notifications and proof of customs status shall be subject to the data requirements set out in Annex 9 to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/341, as follows:

(a)until the date of deployment of the UCC Automated Export System set out in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151, for the cases covered by the columns A1, A2, B1 and C1 of Annex B to this Regulation;

(b)until the date of deployment of Component 1 of the UCC Special Procedures electronic system set out in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151, for the cases covered by the columns B2 and B3 of Annex B to this Regulation;

(c)until the date of deployment of phase 5 of the UCC New Computerised Transit System as set out in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151, for the cases covered by column D1 of Annex B to this Regulation;

(d)until the date of deployment of phase 1 of the UCC Proof of Union Status set out in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151, for the cases covered by column E1 of Annex B to this Regulation;

(e)until the date of deployment of release 2 of the UCC Import Control System as set out in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151, for the cases covered by the columns F20 and F30 of Annex B to this Regulation and for the diversion notification of aircrafts;

(f)until the date of deployment of release 3 of the UCC Import Control System as set out in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151, for the cases covered by the columns F10, F50 and F51 of Annex B to this Regulation and for the diversion notification of sea-going vessels;

(g)until the upgrade of the National Import Systems as set out in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151, for the cases covered by the columns H1 to H4 and I1 of Annex B to this Regulation.

Where data requirements for the exchange and storage of information required for declarations, notifications and proof of customs status are not set out in Annex 9 to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/341, Member States shall ensure that the respective data requirements are such as to warrant that the provisions governing those declarations, notifications and proof of customs status can be applied.’;

(d)the following new paragraph 4a is inserted:‘4a.By way of derogation from paragraphs 2 and 4, customs authorities may decide to apply the common data requirements set out in columns H1 to H6, I1 and I2 of Annex D of this Regulation until the date on which those customs authorities deploy the first phase of UCC Centralised Clearance for Import referred to in the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151.’;

(2)in the Table of Contents, after Article 256, Title I is amended as follows:

(a)the line ‘ANNEX B – Common data requirements for declarations, notifications and proof of the customs status of Union goods’ is replaced by ‘ANNEX B – Common data requirements for declarations, notifications and proof of the customs status of Union goods (Article 2(2))’;

(b)the following lines are inserted after the line corresponding to Annex B:‘ANNEX C – Declarations, notifications and proof of the customs status of Union goods and related projects in Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2151 UCC Work ProgramANNEX D – Common Data Requirements for Declarations, Notifications and Customs Status of Union goods (Article 2(4a))’;

(3)Annex B is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation;

(4)a new Annex C as set out in Annex II to this Regulation is inserted;

(5)a new Annex D as set out in Annex III to this Regulation is inserted.