customs inspection

Official documents under official seal shall not be subject to customs inspection.

If the goods must be inspected by other competent authorities and the Customs also schedules an examination, the Customs shall ensure that the inspections are co-ordinated and, if possible, carried out at the same time.

User Members shall ensure that all preshipment inspection activities, including the issuance of a Clean Report of Findings or a note of non-issuance, are performed in the customs territory from which the goods are exported or, if the inspection cannot be carried out in that customs territory given the complex nature of the products involved, or if both parties agree, in the customs territory in which the goods are manufactured.

(d) Samples and approved equipment carried by members of the inspection team shall be inviolable subject to provisions contained in this Treaty and exempt from all customs duties.

The Customs Authority of one Contracting Party shall, upon the request of the Customs Authority of the other Contracting Party, conduct any necessary investigation, including the questioning of experts and witnesses or persons suspected of having committed a customs offence, and undertake verifications, inspections, and fact-finding inquiries in connection with the matters referred to in the present Agreement.

The Customs Administration of one Contracting Party shall, upon the request of the Customs Administration of the other Contracting Party, conduct any necessary investigation, including the questioning of experts and witnesses or persons suspected of having committed a customs offence, and undertake verifications, inspections, and fact-finding inquiries in connection with the matters referred to in this Agreement.

The Customs Authority of one Contracting Party shall, upon request of the Customs Authority of the other Contracting Party, conduct any necessary investigation, including the questioning of experts and witnesses or persons suspected of having committed a contravention of customs legislation, and undertake verifications, inspections, and fact-finding inquiries in connection with the matters referred to in the present Agreement.

(1) Spatial and other conditions for the work of official bodies for internal affairs, customs bodies and inspection services and air traffic navigation services must be provided at public airports if this is required for airport operation.

"examination of goods" means the physical inspection of goods by the Customs to satisfy themselves that the nature, origin, condition, quantity and value of the goods are in accordance with the particulars furnished in the Goods declaration;

Preshipment inspection activities are all activities relating to the verification of the quality, the quantity, the price, including currency exchange rate and financial terms, and/or the customs classification of goods to be exported to the territory of the user Member.

The Customs Authority of one Contracting Party shall, upon the request of the Customs Authority of the other Contracting Party, conduct any necessary investigation, including the questioning of experts and witnesses or persons suspected of having committed a contravention, and undertake verifications, inspections, and fact-finding inquiries in connection with the matters referred to in this Agreement.

The Customs Authority of either Contracting Party shall, upon the request of the Customs Authority of the other Contracting Party, conduct any necessary investigation, including the questioning of experts and witnesses or persons suspected of having committed a contravention, and undertake verifications, inspections, and fact-finding inquiries related to the matters referred to in the present Agreement.

The Customs Authority of one Contracting Party shall, upon the request of the Customs Authority of the other Contracting Party, conduct any necessary investigation, including the questioning of experts and witnesses or persons suspected of having committed a contravention, and undertake verifications, inspections, and fact-finding inquiries in connection with the matters referred to in the present Agreement.

4 The obligations of user Members with respect to the services of preshipment inspection entities in connection with customs valuation shall be the obligations which they have accepted in GATT 1994 and the other Multilateral Trade Agreements included in Annex 1A of the WTO Agreement.

The Customs Authority of either Contracting Party shall, upon the request of the Customs Authority of the other Contracting Party, conduct any necessary investigation, including the questioning of experts and witnesses or persons suspected of having committed a contravention, and undertake verifications, inspections, and fact-finding inquiries in connection with the matters referred to in the present Agreement.

(3) The government shall prescribe conditions which must be met if the ministry responsible for defence, the ministry responsible for customs or the ministry responsible for internal affairs demands that an aircraft land for an inspection, and the procedures that shall be carried out in such cases.

Preshipment inspection entities shall share confidential business information with the governments contracting or mandating them only to the extent that such information is customarily required for letters of credit or other forms of payment or for customs, import licensing or exchange control purposes.

suspected persons, prisoners, persons being expelled, undesirables, etc., security controlled and security clearance areas except for official premises of the police and customs, and spatial and other conditions for exercising constant monitoring of the implementation of security inspections and protection.

(g) The members of the inspection team shall be permitted to bring into the territory of the inspected State Party, without payment of any customs duties or related charges, articles for personal use, with the exception of articles the import or export of which is prohibited by law or controlled by quarantine regulations;

(b) the preshipment inspection entity shall base its price comparison for the verification of the export price on the price(s) of identical or similar goods offered for export from the same country of exportation at or about the same time, under competitive and comparable conditions of sale, in conformity with customary commercial practices and net of any applicable standard discounts.

Aircraft operated on international air services by a designated airline of either Contracting Party, as well as its regular equipment, supplies of fuel and lubricants and aircraft stores (including food, beverages and tobacco) on board such aircraft shall be exempt from all customs duties, inspection fees and other duties or taxes on arriving in the territory of the other Contracting Party, provided such equipment and supplies remain on board the aircraft up to such time as they are re-exported.

(2) Customs Administration shall perform the inspection of premises which provide the performance of customs supervision in the economic zone within 30 days after the receipt of the complete request of the founder.

(3) Customs Administration shall, within 8 days after the inspection, issue minutes on its findings with regard to meeting the conditions for the performance of the customs supervision in which it shall define the deadline for an eventual elimination of deficiencies.

Where products under a customs-warehousing or free-zone procedure are to be exported, the results of the scrutiny of the payment declaration and any inspection of the products shall be used to determine the refund.

The prior notification of the arrival of animals from third countries requires, in the interests of smooth operations at the border inspection posts, the adoption of a formal document containing the information relevant to the customs declaration.

Animals which have obtained an import authorisation and whose destination is not the Member State which carried out the import inspection laid down in paragraph 1, must be directed to the country of destination under customs control without being unloaded.

The Member States shall ensure that the fresh meat is subjected, without delay, immediately upon arrival in Community territory, to an animal health inspection carried out by the competent authority whatever the customs procedure under which it was declared.

However, it is necessary to lay down specific rules regarding the practical management of the certificate in situations where consignments receive veterinary clearance at the border inspection post but remain under customs supervision for fiscal reasons for some time.

The official veterinarian or the person responsible for the load shall notify the customs authorities for the border inspection post of the veterinary clearance of the consignment as provided for in paragraph 1 by submitting the original of the CVED, or by electronic means.

The official veterinarian, the importer or the person responsible for the load shall then notify the customs authorities for the border inspection post of the veterinary decision taken on the consignment, by presenting the original of the CVED, or by sending it electronically.

Where consignments of products have received veterinary clearance at the border inspection post as provided for in Article 3(1), but remain under customs supervision and are released for free circulation at a later stage, the procedure set out in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 shall apply.

Whereas fresh meat must, whatever the customs procedure under which it is declared, undergo health inspection upon reaching Community territory in order to prevent re-routing of meat unaccompanied by the required certificates, coming from third countries from which importation is not authorised or which do not have a properly completed public health certificate;

This certificate is to be completed for all consignments presented to a border inspection post, whether they are for consignments presented as meeting EU requirements and are for free circulation, consignments that will be subject to channelling or those consignments not meeting EU conditions and destined for transhipment, transit, or their placing in free zones, free warehouses or customs warehouses or for ship suppliers (chandlers).

all spaces capable of holding goods are readily accessible for customs inspection.

the number of the said spaces shall be kept to a minimum and these spaces shall be readily accessible for customs inspection.

Customs declaration checked after clearance, customs arrangements or customs use concerned (post-clearance inspections)

Member States shall ensure that whenever a customs inspection reveals that a consignment or lot coming from a third country consists of or contains non-declared plants, plant products or other objects listed in Annex V, Part B, the inspecting customs office shall immediately inform the official body of its Member State, under the cooperation referred to in Article 13c(4).

Inspection of the customs seals, if such seals are provided for under national rules.

the spaces reserved for the load are readily accessible for inspection by the customs authorities.

where a lining is of less than full height and the spaces between the lining and the outer wall are not completely enclosed, and in all other cases where spaces occur in the construction of a load compartment, the number of such spaces shall be kept to a minimum and these spaces shall be readily accessible for customs inspection.

The competent customs officer shall produce a detailed inspection report on each physical check carried out.

(It should also be used for consignments that meet EU requirements but for financial reasons are not being customs cleared immediately at the border inspection post, but are being stored under customs control in a customs warehouse or will be customs cleared later and/or at a geographically separate destination.)

- unduly long customs clearance delays or excessively burdensome, excessive or costly customs procedures, including inspection requirements, which have an unnecessary restrictive effect on imports;

- unduly long customs clearance delays or excessively burdensome, excessive or costly customs procedures, including inspection requirements, which have an unnecessary restrictive effect on imports,

unduly long customs clearance delays or excessively burdensome, non-transparent or costly customs procedures, including inspection requirements, which have an unnecessary restrictive effect on imports,

- unduly long customs clearance delays or excessively burdensome, non-transparent or costly customs procedures, including inspection requirements, which have an unnecessary restrictive effect on imports,

The transhipment, fisheries inspection or customs check in the ports of Beira or Maputo shall not affect the Community origin of the catches concerned.

Each customs office of export shall make the necessary arrangements to ensure that compliance with the inspection rate of 5 % can be verified at any time.

- rules, procedures or practices for pre-shipment inspection that are discriminatory, non-transparent, excessively lengthy or the imposition of customs controls for the clearance of goods on shipments that have been the subject of pre-shipment inspection;