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Rules E

Based on document version 5.15.0-v0.10 and issue date 04/03/2022

These rules are the technical rules that will be used for the cutover period between 16 and 30 November 2023. During this period, the NCTS phase 4 service will continue running to deal with in-flight transit declarations submitted before 16 November while the phase 5 service will handle all new declarations.

During the cutover period:

  • technical rules with Transitional Period (TP) measures will be applied to the following message types:

    • ‘Arrival Notification’ E_ARR_NOT (IE007)
    • ‘Declaration Amendment’ E_DEC_AMD (IE013)
    • ‘Declaration Data’ E_DEC_DAT (IE015)
    • ‘Presentation Notification For The Pre-Lodged Declaration’ E_PRE_NOT (IE170)
  • technical rules without TP measures will be applied to all other message types defined in this specification

Note: ‘TPendDate’ in a rule refers to 30 November 2023.

E1102

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate> THEN
//HolderOfTheTransitProcedure/Address/postcode AND
/
/Consignment/Consignor/Address/postcode AND
//Consignment/Consignee/Address/postcode AND
/
/Consignment/LocationOfGoods/Address/postcode AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Consignee/Address/postcode AND
/
/Consignment/ConsigneeActual/Address/postcode AND
/*/GuaranteeReference/Guarantor/Address/postcode

format shall be set to an..9

E1103

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate> THEN
//Consignment/ActiveBorderTransportMeans/identificationNumber AND
/
/Consignment/DepartureTransportMeans/identificationNumber AND
/CD038C/Consignment/Incident/Transhipment/TransportMeans/ identificationNumber

format shall be set to an..27

E1104

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
//HolderOfTheTransitProcedure/name AND
/
/HolderOfTheTransitProcedure/Address/streetAndNumber AND
//GuaranteeReference/Guarantor/name AND
/
/GuaranteeReference/Guarantor/Address/streetAndNumber AND
//Consignment/Consignor/name AND
/
/Consignment/Consignor/Address/streetAndNumber AND
//Consignment/Consignee/name AND
/
/Consignment/Consignee/Address/streetAndNumber AND
//Consignment/LocationOfGoods/Address/streetAndNumber AND
/
/Consignment/ActiveBorderTransportmeans/conveyanceReferenceNumber AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Consignee/name AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Consignee/Address/streetAndNumber AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/PreviousDocument/referenceNumber AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/SupportingDocument/referenceNumber AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/TransportDocument/referenceNumber AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/AdditionalReference/referenceNumber
format shall be set to an..35

E1105

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Packaging/shippingMarks

format shall be set to an..42

E1107

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Commodity/descriptionOfGoods

format shall be set to an..280

E1109

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
//Consignment/grossMass AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Commodity/GoodsMeasure/grossMass AND
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/ Commodity/GoodsMeasure/netMass
format shall be set to n..11,3

E1111

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Packaging/numberOfPackages

format shall be set to n..5

E1114

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
/*/Consignment/PlaceOfLoading/location

format shall be set to an..17

E1117

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/PreviousDocument/complementOfInformation
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/SupportingDocument/complementOfInformation

format shall be set to an..26.

E1118

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
/*/Guarantee/GuaranteeReference/accessCode

format shall be set to an4

E1301

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
//Consignment/PreviousDocument AND
/
/Consignment/SupportingDocument AND
//Consignment/TransportDocument AND
/
/Consignment/AdditionalReference AND
//Consignment/AdditionalInformation AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/countryOfDispatch AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/referenceNumberUCR AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/Consignor AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/Consignee AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/DepartureTransportMeans AND
//Consignment/ HouseConsignment/PreviousDocument AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/SupportingDocument AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/TransportDocument AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/AdditionalReference AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/AdditionalInformation AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/TransportCharges AND
/*/GuaranteeReference/Guarantor/AgentInCountryOfCompetentAuthority

shall not be used

E1401

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/PreviousDocument
multiplicity shall be set to ‘9x’

E1406

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
//RiskAnalysisIdentification/RiskAnalysis/RiskAnalysisResult AND
/
/Consignment/ActiveBorderTransportMeans AND
//Consignment/HouseConsignment AND
/
/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/Commodity/DangerousGoods
multiplicity shall be set to ‘1x’

E1407

Functional Description

N/A

Technical Description

IF <Decisive Date> is LESS than or EQUAL to <TPendDate>
THEN
for each Goods Item, the cumulated number of all instances of
//Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/SupportingDocument AND //Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/TransportDocument AND /*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/AdditionalReference
shall be LESS OR EQUAL to 99x