Development, testing, deployment and management of the electronic systems
1. The Commission shall develop, test, deploy and manage the common components, and the Member States may test those common components. The Member States shall develop, test, deploy and manage the national components.
2. Member States shall ensure that the national components are interoperable with the common components.
3. The Commission shall design and maintain the common specifications for the decentralised systems in close cooperation with the Member States.
4. The Member States shall develop, operate, and maintain interfaces to provide the functionality for the decentralised systems necessary for the exchange of information with economic operators and other persons through national components and interfaces, and with other Member States through common components.
Maintenance of and changes to the electronic systems
1. The Commission shall perform the maintenance of the common components and the Member States shall perform the maintenance of their national components.
2. The Commission and the Member States shall ensure the uninterrupted operation of the electronic systems.
3. The Commission may change the common components of the electronic systems to correct malfunctions, to add new functionalities, or to alter existing functionalities.
4. The Commission shall inform the Member States of changes and updates to the common components.
5. Member States shall inform the Commission of changes and updates to the national components that may affect the functioning of the common components.
6. The Commission and the Member States shall make the information on the changes and updates to the electronic systems set out in paragraphs 4 and 5 publicly available.
Temporary failure of the electronic systems
1. In the event of a temporary failure of the electronic systems referred to in Article 6(3), point (b), of the Code, economic operators and other persons shall submit the information required to fulfil the formalities concerned by the means determined by the Member States, including by means other than electronic data-processing techniques.
2. The customs authorities of the Member States shall make sure the information submitted in accordance with paragraph 1 is made available in the respective electronic systems within 7 days of the respective electronic systems becoming available again.
3. The Commission and the Member States shall inform each other about any unavailability of the electronic systems resulting from a temporary failure.
The Commission and the Member States shall also inform each other of the unavailability of economic operators’ systems as regards the ICS2.
4. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, in the event of a temporary failure of the ICS2, AES, CRMS, PoUS or CCI, the business continuity plan agreed between the Member States and the Commission shall apply.
5. With regard to the ICS2, each Member State shall decide on the activation of the business continuity plan where that Member State is affected by the temporary failure of the electronic system or where an economic operator is unable to lodge an entry summary declaration or particulars of such declaration pursuant to Article 127(4) and (6) of the Code.
6. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, in the event of a temporary failure of the NCTS system, the business continuity procedure referred to in Annex 72-04 to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 shall apply.
7. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, in the event of the temporary failure of the PoUS system, the business continuity plan agreed between the Member States and the Commission shall apply.
Training support on the use and functioning of the common components
The Commission shall support the Member States on the use and functioning of the common components of the electronic systems by providing the appropriate training material.
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