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Union Customs Code — Article 6

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Article 6 Means for the exchange and storage of information and common data requirements 1. All exchanges of information, such as declarations, applications or decisions, between customs authorities and between economic operators and customs authorities, and the storage of such information, as required under the customs legislation, shall be made using electronic data-processing techniques. 2. Common data requirements shall be drawn up for the purpose of the exchange and storage of information referred to in paragraph 1. requirements shall be drawn up for the purpose of the exchange and storage of information referred to in paragraph 1. 3. Means for the exchange and storage of information, other than the electronic data-processing techniques referred to in paragraph 1, may be used as follows: (a) on a permanent basis where duly justified by the type of traffic or where the use of electronic data-processing techniques is not appropriate for the customs formalities concerned; (b) on a temporary basis, in the event of a temporary failure of the computerised system of the customs authorities or of the economic operators. in the event of a temporary failure of the computerised system
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of the customs authorities or of the economic operators. 4. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the Commission may adopt in exceptional cases decisions allowing one or several Member States to use means for the exchange and storage of information other than electronic data-processing techniques. Such a decision on a derogation shall be justified by the specific situation of the Member State requesting it and the derogation shall be granted for a specific period of time. The derogation shall be reviewed periodically and may be extended for further specific periods of time upon further application by the Member State to which it is addressed. It shall be revoked where no longer justified. The derogation shall not affect the exchange of information between the Member State to which it is addressed and other Member States nor the exchange and storage of information in other Member States for the purpose of the application of the customs legislation.

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Livingston InternationalPLthere is a plan that the EU authorities will get in touch with those manufacturing the goods or with our suppliers. 2. Article 6.3 states the following: “a) Where the customs authorities fail to take a decision within the time-limits established in the first, ↗
DIHK - German Chamber of Commerce and IndustryDEImplementierungszeiträume mit 2025 im Umsatzsteuerrecht und 2028 im Zollrecht ungünstig auseinander. Entscheidungen auf Antrag – Artikel 6 Genehmigungsfristen von bis zu 30, 60 oder sogar 120 Kalendertagen nach Einreichung aller erfor- derlichen Informationen ↗
EuroCommerceBEplication. Additionally, some clarification is required for the instances where a customs authority acts as a judicial authority, Article 6(4), (5), (6), (7), Article 7(7) and Articles 8, 9 and 10 shall also apply to decisions taken by the customs authorities ↗
American Chamber of Commerce to the EUBEof the proposed EU Customs Reform Regulation). Art. 6 introduces the figure of negative administrative silence. While we re-iterate the importance of having a decision issued by customs authorities within the prescribed deadlines, article 6 must be amended to ↗
Allegro sp. z o.o.PLroduced in two steps. The first step would be (1) an obligation to report data collected from the merchants (data sharing 1 DSA - Article 6 - Hosting obligations) in the EU Customs Data HUB. Only once it works, some initial problems are solved and the collecte ↗
IHK Rhein-NeckarDErste Priorität einzuräumen. u. a. durch: Kurze Genehmigungsfristen für höhere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Genehmigungsfristen von wie in Art. 6 des Entwurfs vorgesehen bis zu 30, 60 bzw. sogar 120 Kalendertagen nach Einreichen aller für Genehmigungen notwendigen Info ↗
CINOABEby 28 June 2025, but if they are not ready then there should be a postponement of the application of the regulation. 11. Article 6(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/880 states that where a consignment consists of several cultural goods, the competent authority may de ↗
Student contribution (Maastricht University)NLRights of the European Union (Article 6[1] TEU), as well as the Protocols and Annexes to the Treaties (Article 51 TEU). 14 citizens may enforce the law before the national courts as ruled in the seminal case Van Gen den Loos.29 Meanwhile, direct applicability ↗
University of Bologna - PhD thesisITon of administrative law in Europe, Munchen, 2007; J. Schwarze, European administrative law, Andover, 2006. 192 was recognised by Article 6(2) of the ECHR, by the law of the Member States, and by Community law itself. Additionally, it was contended that, accor ↗

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 9 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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