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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1272 SECTION 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

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Article 1

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1. The Commission shall establish an Electronic system for Agricultural Non-customs formalities (‘ELAN’) that shall facilitate the electronic exchange and storage of documents used for the fulfilment of non-customs formalities necessary for trade with third countries of products covered by the sectors listed in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. 2. ELAN shall enable the secure, reliable and efficient issuing, transmission, storage and retrieval of the following documents: (a) import and export licences produced in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1237 ( 12 ) and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1239; (b) documents produced by third countries required for the management of tariff rate quotas, as provided for in the specific tariff quota fiches in Annexes II to XII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/761, with the exception of the export certificate required for tariff quota with order number 09.4127, and in Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988, with the exception of the certificate of conformity required for tariff quota with order number 09.0076; (c) documents issued by third countries, as provided for in Article 31(5) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1988; (d) documents issued by third countries, as provided for in Article 9 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2834. 3. ELAN shall ensure the authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of the exchanged documents, as well as the verification of the origin of the communication. 4. The Commission shall interconnect ELAN with the European Union Customs Single Window Certificates Exchange System (‘EU CSW-CERTEX’) established by Regulation (EU) 2022/2399 by 18 September 2028. 5. This Regulation shall apply to all Member States and to those third countries that issue the documents listed in Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1269.

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Article 2

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1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (a) ‘relevant Union legislation’ means the Union regulations that govern each and any of the documents covered by ELAN and listed in Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1269; (b) ‘ELAN documents’ means all documents listed in Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1269; (c) ‘data model’ means the list of information that the competent authorities or bodies shall provide in ELAN in order to produce or transmit a document, in accordance with the relevant Union legislation applicable to the documents concerned, and with the instructions published in series C of the Official Journal of the European Union ( 13 ) referred to in Article 1(1), point (j) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1239; (d) ‘national electronic system’ means the IT system used by the authorities and bodies of Member States and third countries competent to manage and produce the documents listed in Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1269; (e) ‘ELAN (acceptance environment)’ means the electronic system identical to ELAN which serves the sole scope of allowing users to test the functionalities of that system, and to issue or transmit documents with no legal value; (f) ‘Master reference number’ means the reference number of a customs declaration as defined in Article 1(22) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 ( 14 ) . 2. For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 3 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1269 shall apply.

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