Arrival notification for transit

When the transited goods arrive, they must be presented to Customs and an unloading permission must be requested. This is done by submitting an arrival notification. 

There are two ways to start submitting an arrival notification: 

  • Submit the arrival notification as a new declaration. On the start page, choose “+ New declaration”, then “Transit” and “Arrival and destination”. After this, you can start completing the arrival notification. 
  • Submit the arrival notification based on the transit declaration. Some of the details will be filled in automatically. Go to the “Summary and submission” page of the transit declaration and choose “Arrival notification”.

The MRN will be filled in automatically if you use a transit declaration as the basis for the arrival notification. If you are submitting the arrival notification as a new declaration, provide the MRN at the beginning.

Contact person

The contact person is the submitter of the notification. Customs may contact the contact the contact person for additional information.

If you have saved your details in advance in the settings, you can tick the box “Use the details of the authenticated person”, and the field for trader office code will be completed automatically. If you are not using the details of the authenticated person, enter your name, email address and phone number in the fields. 

If you have given your consent for electronic notice of decisions, the system automatically fills in the field “Email address for notifications”. Don’t unselect it. If you wish to change your consent for electronic notice, do it under “Settings”. If you don’t give your consent for electronic notice, you will receive e.g. the requests for additional information and the decisions by post. For detailed guidance, see Settings – Customs instructions.

Trader at destination

Here you can tick the box “Use the details of authenticated trader” and the service will fill in the details automatically.

Provide the identification number of the trader at destination if the service has not filled in the field automatically. Only an EORI number can be provided as the identification number of the trader at destination. When you enter the EORI number of the trader at destination, the service fills in the other details automatically.

Authorisations

If you are submitting the arrival notification as an authorised consignee, provide the authorisation number here. After this, the other authorisation details will be filled in automatically.

Locations

Indicate where the goods are when they are presented to Customs and can be inspected by Customs. The location may be a temporary storage facility or a customs warehouse, a place approved or designated by Customs, a customs office or, in force majeure situations, some other place.

First, choose the type of location code from the drop-down menu. The other location details will be displayed after you have chosen the type of location.

Provide the location details as follows:

  • If the goods are, at the time or presentation, in a temporary storage facility or in a customs warehouse:
    • Choose “B” as the type of location code.
    • The qualifier of locations will automatically be “X – identification of warehouse (EORI number with extensions)”.
    • In the field “Identification of warehouse”, provide the warehouse ID.
  • If the goods are, at the time of presentation, in another location approved by Customs, that is, in a location that has the authorisation as a location approved by Customs or the status as an export warehouse:
    • Choose “C” as the type of location code.
    • The qualifier of locations will automatically be “X – identification of warehouse (EORI number with extensions)”.
    • In the field “Identification of warehouse”, provide the warehouse ID.
  • If the goods are in a location designated by Customs, e.g. in an industrial port:
    • Choose “A” as the type of location code and “Z” as the qualifier.
    • Enter the street address in the address fields.
  •  If the goods are at a customs office:
    • Choose “A” as the type of location code and “V” as the qualifier.
    • In the “Customs office” field, enter the customs office code.

State of seals

Choose in what state the seals are or whether any seals have been declared at all.

Following procedure type and MRN

If the customs declaration after transit has been pre-lodged (D declaration), choose the following procedure, e.g. “IMP – Import”.

Also provide its MRN.

Submitting the arrival notification

When you have filled in the details, click on “Go to submission”. You will move to “Summary and submission” and can submit the arrival notification. If there are errors in the arrival notification, they must be corrected before you can submit the notification.

When Customs has accepted the submitted arrival notification, the headings “Arrival notification”, “Unloading permission” and “Unloading report” are displayed in the navigation on the left.