Article 2
1. Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia may use means for the exchange and storage of information other than electronic data-processing techniques instead of component 2, Phase 6 of the Union Customs Code New Computerised Transit System (‘NCTS’) as referred to in Article 273 of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 and the common component of release 3 of the UCC Import Control System 2 (‘ICS2’) referred to in Article 182 of that Regulation until 31 May 2026, or 31 December 2025, in accordance with Article 4 of this decision. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia shall ensure that economic operators may lodge the safety and security data, in accordance with Article 127(5) of (EU) No 952/2013, for goods entering the customs territory of the Union through those Member States, using either the Import Control System 1 (‘ICS1’) or, where applicable and depending on the arrangements in place in the Member State, ICS1 in combination with the transit declaration in NCTS Phase 5, in accordance with Articles 127 and 130 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013. 3. The customs offices of Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia shall communicate, in accordance with Article 186(7a) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447, the results of the control they carried out to other customs authorities of the Member States through the electronic system referred to in Article 36(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2447.