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Union Customs Code — Article 120

The article's text

Article 120 Equity 1. In cases other than those referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 116(1) and in Articles 117, 118 and 119 an amount of import or export duty shall be repaid or remitted in the interest of equity where a customs debt is incurred under special circumstances in which no deception or obvious negligence may be attributed to the debtor. 2. The special circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 shall be deemed to exist where it is clear from the circumstances of the case that the debtor is in an exceptional situation as compared with other operators engaged in the same business, and that, in the absence of such circumstances, he or she would not have suffered disadvantage by the collection of the amount of import or export duty.

Who wrote about this article in the consultations

Filers who named this exact article number in their own text. It is their sentence, not our reading — and not a causal claim.

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business association
WhoCountryWhat they wrote
Forum Przewoźników EkspresowychPLimporter what takes days or even weeks beforehand these data can be determined. 18. Amendment of storage information. Pursuant to Art. 120 item 1 of the Proposal the operator of a customs warehouse may amend one or more particulars of the information on the go

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 1 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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