Time frame for transmission of required information
Article 34
1. Economic operators shall transmit the information referred to in Article 32(1) points (a), (b) and (d), Articles 32(3) and (4), and Article 33(1), within 3 hours from the occurrence of the event. The information referred to in Article 32 shall be transmitted in the order of the occurrence of the events. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, the events referred to in Article 33 shall be deemed to occur at the moment when they can be associated with the relevant unit packets for the first time. 3. Economic operators shall transmit the information concerning the dispatch of tobacco products from a facility and trans-loading referred to in Article 32(1) points (c) and (e), within 24 hours prior to the occurrence of the event. 4. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, economic operators may transmit the information referred to in Article 32(1) points (a), (b) and (d), Articles 32(3) and (4), and Article 33(1), within 24 hours from the occurrence of the event, if they fulfil any of the following conditions: (a) they, or where applicable, the group of undertakings to which they belong, handled less than 120 million unit level UIs at Union level during the previous calendar year; (b) they are small and medium enterprises within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC. 5. Paragraph 1 shall apply from 20 May 2028. Until that date all economic operators may transmit the information referred to in paragraph 1 within 24 hours from the occurrence of the event.