TITLE VGENERAL RULES ON CUSTOMS STATUS, PLACING GOODS UNDER A CUSTOMS PROCEDURE, VERIFICATION, RELEASE AND DISPOSAL OF GOODS

CHAPTER 1Customs status of goods

Section 2Proof of customs status of Union goods

Subsection 2Specific provisions concerning products of sea-fishing and goods obtained from such products

Article 213Proof of the customs status of Union goods for products of sea-fishing and goods obtained from such products(Article 153(2) of the Code)

Where products and goods referred to in Article 119(1)(d) and (e) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2446 are brought into the customs territory of the Union in accordance with Article 129 of that Delegated Regulation, the customs status of Union goods shall be proven by the production of a fishing logbook, a landing declaration, transhipment declaration and vessel monitoring system data, as appropriate, as required in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/200919.

However, the customs authority which is responsible for the Union port of unloading to which those products and goods are directly transported by the Union fishing vessel which caught the products and, where applicable, processed them, may consider the customs status of Union goods to be proven in either of the following cases:

  1. (a)

    there is no doubt about the status of those products and/or goods;

  2. (b)

    the fishing vessel has an overall length of less than 10 metres.