Union Customs Code — Article 201

The article's text

Article 201
Scope and effect
1. Non-Union goods intended to be put on the Union market or intended for private use or consumption within the customs territory of the Union shall be placed under release for free circulation.
2. Release for free circulation shall entail the following:
(a) 
the collection of any import duty due;
(b) 
the collection, as appropriate, of other charges, as provided for under relevant provisions in force relating to the collection of those charges;
(c) 
the application of commercial policy measures and prohibitions and restrictions insofar as they do not have to be applied at an earlier stage; and
(d) 
completion of the other formalities laid down in respect of the import of the goods.
3. Release for free circulation shall confer on non-Union goods the customs status of Union goods.

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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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Who	Country	What they wrote
Student contribution (Maastricht University)	NL	23) 77. 89 UCC Articles 162-163 and 166-167. 90 ibid Article 163 and Article 201; UCC-DA Annex B. 91 UCC Article 172. 92 Case C-138/10 DP grup EOOD v Direktor na Agentsia ‘Mitnitsi’ [2011] ECJ ECLI:EU:C:2011:587 [39]. 93 such as examining the declaration and o ↗
University of Bologna - PhD thesis	IT	or should have reasonably been aware of their incorrectness ". The court has provided an interpretation of customs debtor, under Article 201(3) of Regulation No 2913/92, that must be interpreted as covering “the natural person who has been closely and knowing ↗

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 2 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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