Article 263
Lodging a pre-departure declaration
1. Goods to be taken out of the customs territory of the Union shall be covered by a pre-departure declaration to be lodged at the competent customs office within a specific time-limit before the goods are taken out of the customs territory of the Union.
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; or
(b)
in other specific cases, where duly justified by the type of goods or traffic or where required by international agreements.
3. The pre-departure declaration shall take the form of one of the following:
(a)
a customs declaration, where the goods to be taken out of the customs territory of the Union are placed under a customs procedure for which such declaration is required;
(b)
a re-export declaration, in accordance with Article 270;
(c)
an exit summary declaration, in accordance with Article 271.
4. The pre-departure declaration shall contain the particulars necessary for risk analysis for security and safety purposes.
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.
has stated that implementation of the current UCC and the suite of major IT systems will not be impacted by the reform. However, article 263 of the reform Package states that the UCC is repealed and replaced by the new legal act. This effectively erases the le ↗
Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 1 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.