Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2591 of 18 December 2025 granting a derogation to certain Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council to use means other than electronic data-processing techniques for the exchange and storage of information instead of component 2, phase 6, of the New Computerised Transit System (notified under document C(2025) 8776)

• CELEX: Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2591
• Articles: 5

Article 1

This Decision applies to the goods in the following consignments:

(a)

road and rail consignments;

(b)

postal consignments.

Article 2

1.   Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia may use means for the exchange and storage of information other than electronic data-processing techniques instead of component 2, Phase 6 of the Union Customs Code New Computerised Transit System (‘NCTS’) as referred to in Article 273 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 and the common component of release 3 of the UCC Import Control System 2 (‘ICS2’) referred to in Article 182 of that Regulation until 31 May 2026, or 31 December 2025, in accordance with Article 4 of this decision.

2.   For the purposes of paragraph 1, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia shall ensure that economic operators may lodge the safety and security data, in accordance with Article 127(5) of (EU) No 952/2013, for goods entering the customs territory of the Union through those Member States, using either the Import Control System 1 (‘ICS1’) or, where applicable and depending on the arrangements in place in the Member State, ICS1 in combination with the transit declaration in NCTS Phase 5, in accordance with Articles 127 and 130 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013.

3.   The customs offices of Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia shall communicate, in accordance with Article 186(7a) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447, the results of the control they carried out to other customs authorities of the Member States through the electronic system referred to in Article 36(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.

Article 3

Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia shall report monthly to the European Commission on progress made in developing the interconnection provided for in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2879.

Article 4

This decision shall apply from 1 September 2025 until 31 May 2026 for the consignments referred to in Article 1(a).

However, as regards the consignments referred to in Article 1(b), it shall apply from 1 September 2025 until 31 December 2025.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Poland, Romania and the Slovak Republic.