Procedure
Article 3
1. Where a Member State uses the interface, customs authorities shall connect the national customs systems with that interface, test the connection and ensure that these systems remain interoperable with that interface. 2. Where the notifications and requests referred to in Article 26(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 take place by means of ICSMS and of the interface pursuant to Article 26(4) of that Regulation, the following provisions shall apply: (a) customs authorities shall enter in their national customs systems the data to be transmitted, where such data are not already present, and shall authorise the transmission of these data via the interface to ICSMS; (b) market surveillance authorities shall enter in ICSMS the data to be transmitted and shall authorise the transmission of these data via the interface to the national customs systems of the relevant customs authorities; (c) once the transmission of the data referred to in points (a) and (b) of this paragraph has been authorised, the interface shall transmit these data to the other system; (d) all subsequent data transmissions relating to the notifications and requests shall take place via the interface. 3. Where the market surveillance authorities do not respond to the notification within the time limits set out in Article 27, point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, ICSMS shall transmit to national customs systems, via the interface, an automatic message indicating that the product may be released for free circulation where all the other requirements and formalities relating to such a release have been fulfilled.