The Customs Transit Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Holder of the paper-based common transit procedure for goods carried by rail and the obligations

47.—(1) The holder of the paper-based common transit procedure for goods carried by rail must be one of the following—

(a) an authorised railway undertaking which is established in a common transit state and which accepts goods for carriage under cover of a CIM consignment note as a declaration for the use of the paper-based common transit procedure for goods carried by rail, and which fills in box 58b of the CIM consignment note by ticking the box ‘yes’ and by entering its UIC code(1); or

(b) when the transport operation starts outside the customs territory of each common transit state and the goods enter such a customs territory, any other authorised railway undertaking which is established in a common transit state and on whose behalf the box 58b is filled in by a railway undertaking of a country that is not a common transit state.

(2) The holder of that procedure is rendered responsible for the implicit statement that the successive or substitute railway undertakings involved in the use of the paper-based common transit procedure also meet the requirements of the paper-based common transit procedure for goods carried by rail.

(1)

A Union Internationale des Chemins de fer code to identify a company involved in railway business, https://uic.org. A hard copy may be inspected free of charge by arrangement with HM Revenue and Customs at 100 Parliament Street, London, SW1A 2BQ.