More favourable treatment regarding risk assessment and control
Article 24
1. An authorised economic operator (AEO) shall be subject to fewer physical and document-based controls than other economic operators. 2. Where an AEOS has lodged an entry summary declaration or, in the cases referred to in Article 130 of the Code, a customs declaration or a temporary storage declaration or where an AEOS has lodged a notification and given access to the particulars related to his entry summary declaration in his computer system as referred to in Article 127(8) of the Code, the customs office of first entry referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 127(3) of the Code shall, where the consignment has been selected for physical control, notify that AEOS of that fact. That notification shall take place before the arrival of the goods in the customs territory of the Union. That notification shall be made available also to the carrier if different from the AEOS referred to in the first subparagraph, provided that the carrier is an AEOS and is connected to the electronic systems relating to the declarations referred to in the first subparagraph. That notification shall not be provided where it may jeopardise the controls to be carried out or the results thereof. 3. Where an AEO lodges a temporary storage declaration or a customs declaration in accordance with Article 171 of the Code, the customs office competent to receive that temporary storage declaration or that customs declaration shall, where the consignment has been selected for customs control, notify the AEO of that fact. That notification shall take place before the presentation of the goods to customs. That notification shall not be provided where it may jeopardise the controls to be carried out or the results thereof. 4. Where consignments declared by an AEO have been selected for physical or document-based control, those controls shall be carried out as a matter of priority. On request from an AEO the controls may be carried out at a place other than the place where the goods have to be presented to customs. 5. The notifications referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 shall not concern the customs controls decided on the basis of the temporary storage declaration or the customs declaration after the presentation of the goods.