Derogations
Article 53
In exceptional and duly justified circumstances, the Commission may, at the request of one or more Member States, adopt an implementing act, in the form of a decision, authorising that Member State or Member States to use functionally equivalent electronic services or systems other than those implemented in the EU Customs Data Hub or to use means other than electronic data-processing techniques for functionalities implemented in the EU Customs Data Hub. An implementing act referred to in the first paragraph: (a) shall not affect the functioning of the EU Customs Data Hub and the completeness of the stored data unless other than electronic data-processing techniques are used; (b) shall be justified by the specific situation of the requesting Member State or Member States; (c) shall be limited in time, reviewed periodically and revoked where no longer justified; (d) shall be adopted only if it does not affect the exchange of information between the requesting Member State or Member States and other Member States and the EU Customs Authority or the exchange and storage of information in other Member States for the purpose of the application of the customs legislation; (e) shall not result in the permanent exclusion of the requesting Member State or Member States from using the EU Customs Data Hub; (f) may be extended in duly justified cases at the request of the Member State or Member States concerned.