Article 52
Charges and costs
1. Customs authorities shall not impose charges for the performance of customs controls or any other application of the customs legislation during the official opening hours of their competent customs offices.
2. Customs authorities may impose charges or recover costs where specific services are rendered, in particular the following:
(a)
attendance, where requested, by customs staff outside official office hours or at premises other than customs premises;
(b)
analyses or expert reports on goods and postal fees for the return of goods to an applicant, particularly in respect of decisions taken pursuant to Article 33 or the provision of information in accordance with Article 14(1);
(c)
the examination or sampling of goods for verification purposes, or the destruction of goods, where costs other than the cost of using customs staff are involved;
(d)
exceptional control measures, where these are necessary due to the nature of the goods or to a potential risk.
CHAPTER 3
Currency conversion and time-limits
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.
ementing Acts (article 55.1). Such efforts aimed at improving common risk management should be welcomed, as well as the fact that article 52 gives clear examples of which kind of elements could be included in the common risk criteria and standards, for example ↗
Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 1 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.