General Customs Procedures/Formalities in European Union

All goods, regardless of their nature, quantity, country of origin, destination and destination, under certain conditions, can be placed under one of the customs regimes. There are several customs regimes (one of the regimes combines eight customs procedures): • Release for free circulation; • Export; • Special procedures (Transit, Storage, Temporary importation and final use, Recycling). Release for free circulation In accordance with Article 129 of the EU Union Customs Code (UCC), non-communitarian goods intended for the community market or for private use or consumption within the European Union are to be released for free circulation. Non-communal goods - goods that are not communitarian, or have lost their customs status of communitarian goods (clause 19 of article 4 of the EU UCC). Communitarian goods are goods falling into one of the following categories: a) goods fully produced in the customs territory of the European Union and not containing goods imported from countries or territories outside the customs territory of the European Union. Goods fully produced in the customs territory of the European Union do not have the customs status of community goods if they are made from goods placed under an external transit procedure, a storage procedure, a temporary import procedure or an internal processing procedure in the cases specified in Article 101 (2) (c) ; b) goods imported into the customs territory of the European Union from countries and territories outside the territory and released for free circulation; c) goods manufactured or produced in the customs territory of the European Union exclusively from the goods specified in paragraph (b), or from the goods specified in paragraphs (a) and (d) (Clause 8 of Article 4 of the EU UCC). Release for free circulation entails: