Subject matter
This Regulation establishes a European Union Single Window Environment for Customs (‘EU Single Window Environment for Customs’) that provides an integrated set of interoperable electronic services, at Union and national level through the European Union Customs Single Window Certificates Exchange System, to support interaction and enhance information exchange between the national single window environments for customs and the Union non-customs systems referred to in the Annex.
It lays down rules for the national single window environments for customs and rules on digital administrative cooperation and information sharing through interoperable data sets, within the EU Single Window Environment for Customs.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
(1)
‘customs authorities’ means ‘customs authorities’ as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(2)
‘customs legislation’ means ‘customs legislation’ as defined in Article 5, point (2), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(3)
‘economic operator’ means ‘economic operator’ as defined in Article 5, point (5), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(4)
‘customs formalities’ means ‘customs formalities’ as defined in Article 5, point (8), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(5)
‘customs declaration’ means ‘customs declaration’ as defined in Article 5, point (12) of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(6)
‘re-export declaration’ means ‘re-export declaration’ as defined in Article 5, point (13), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(7)
‘declarant’ means ‘declarant’ as defined in Article 5, point (15), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(8)
‘customs procedure’ means ‘customs procedure’ as defined in Article 5, point (16), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
(9)
‘national single window environment for customs’ means a set of electronic services established by a Member State to enable information to be exchanged between the electronic systems of its customs authority, the partner competent authorities and economic operators;
(10)
‘partner competent authority’ means any Member State authority, or the Commission, empowered to perform a designated function in relation to the fulfilment of the relevant Union non-customs formalities;
(11)
‘Union non-customs formality’ means all the operations which must be carried out by an economic operator or by a partner competent authority for the international movement of goods, as laid down in Union legislation other than customs legislation;
(12)
‘supporting document’ means any required document issued by a partner competent authority or drawn up by an economic operator, or any required information provided by an economic operator, to certify that Union non-customs formalities have been fulfilled;
(13)
‘quantity management’ means the activity of monitoring and managing the quantity of goods authorised by partner competent authorities, in accordance with Union legislation other than customs legislation, based on the information provided by customs authorities;
(14)
‘Union non-customs system’ means a Union electronic system established by, used in order to achieve the objectives of, or referred to in Union legislation to store information on the fulfilment of the respective Union non-customs formality;
(15)
‘Economic Operator Registration and Identification number (EORI number)’ means ‘Economic Operator Registration and Identification number (EORI number)’ as defined in Article 1, point (18), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 ( 14 ) ;
(16)
‘EORI system’ means the system established for the purposes of Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013.
Establishment of an EU Single Window Environment for Customs
1. An EU Single Window Environment for Customs is established. It shall include:
(a)
an electronic European Union Customs Single Window Certificates Exchange System;
(b)
national single window environments for customs;
(c)
the Union non-customs systems referred to in Part A of the Annex, the use of which is mandatory under Union law;
(d)
the Union non-customs systems referred to in Part B of the Annex, the use of which is voluntary under Union law.
2. The EU Single Window Environment for Customs and its components shall be designed, interconnected and operated in accordance with Union law on the protection of personal data, the free flow of non-personal data and cybersecurity, using the most appropriate technologies having regard to the particular characteristics of the specific data and electronic systems concerned, and the purposes of those systems.
