Article 127
Lodging of an entry summary declaration
1. Goods brought into the customs territory of the Union shall be covered by an entry summary declaration.
2. The obligation referred to in paragraph 1 shall be waived:
(a)
for means of transport and the goods carried thereon only passing through the territorial waters or the airspace of the customs territory of the Union without a stop within that territory; and
(b)
in other cases, where duly justified by the type of goods or traffic, or where required by international agreements.
in other cases, where duly justified by the type of goods or traffic, or where required by international agreements.
3. The entry summary declaration shall be lodged at the customs office of first entry within a specific time-limit, before the goods are brought into the customs territory of the Union.
Customs authorities may allow the entry summary declaration to be lodged at another customs office, provided that the latter immediately communicates or makes available electronically the necessary particulars to the customs office of first entry.
communicates or makes available electronically the necessary particulars to the customs office of first entr
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4. The entry summary declaration shall be lodged by the carrier.
Notwithstanding the obligations of the carrier, the entry summary declaration may be lodged instead by one of the following persons:
(a)
the importer or consignee or other person in whose name or on whose behalf the carrier acts;
(b)
any person who is able to present the goods in question or have them presented at the customs office of entry.
5. The entry summary declaration shall contain the particulars necessary for risk analysis for security and safety purposes.
entry summary declaration shall contain the particulars necessary for risk analysis for security and safety purposes.
6. In specific cases, where all the particulars referred to in paragraph 5 cannot be obtained from the persons referred to in paragraph 4, other persons holding those particulars and the appropriate rights to provide them may be required to provide those particulars.
7. Customs authorities may accept that commercial, port or transport information systems are used for the lodging of an entry summary declaration provided such systems contain the necessary particulars for such declaration and those particulars are available within a specific time-limit, before the goods are brought into the customs territory of the Union.
are available within a specific time-limit, before the goods are brought into the customs territory of the Union.
8. Customs authorities may accept, instead of the lodging of the entry summary declaration, the lodging of a notification and access to the particulars of an entry summary declaration in the economic operator's computer system.
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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