Amendment of the Customs Transit Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 3.
(1)
(2)
In Schedule 1 (the common transit procedure)—
(a)
“(aa)
in the opinion of an officer of Revenue and Customs, the applicant’s financial standing makes the applicant suitable to be an authorised consignee;”;
(b)
in paragraph 18(2) (formalities in Great Britain), in paragraph (c) after “sub-paragraphs” insert “(aa) and”
;
(c)
“(aa)
the applicant meets the eligibility criteria in regulation 93(1)(f) and (g) of the import duty regulations5 (“eligibility criteria for authorised economic operators”), but as if references in that regulation to suitability of that person to be an authorised economic operator were references to suitability of the applicant for the use of the paper-based common transit procedure for goods carried by air;”;
(d)
“(aa)
the applicant meets the eligibility criteria in regulation 93(1)(f) and (g) of the import duty regulations, but as if references in that regulation to suitability of that person to be an authorised economic operator were references to suitability of the applicant for the use of the paper-based common transit procedure for goods carried by rail;”;
(e)
in paragraph 57(2) for “paragraphs 41(1)(d) and (e), 45(1)(d) and (e)” substitute “paragraphs 41(1)(aa), (d) and (e), 45(1)(aa), (d) and (e)”
.