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Rules E

These rules are the technical rules that will be used for the transition period.

During the transition period:

  • the NCTS5 service will handle all new declarations
  • 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: For information about the go-live of the UK NCTS5 service and the ‘TPendDate’, see NCTS5 key dates.

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/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/countryOfDispatch AND
/*/Consignment/PreviousDocument AND
/*/Consignment/SupportingDocument AND
/*/Consignment/TransportDocument AND
/*/Consignment/AdditionalReference AND
/*/Consignment/AdditionalInformation AND
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/countryOfDispatch AND
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/countryOfDestination 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
/*/Consignment/HouseConsignment/ConsignmentItem/countryOfDispatch 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