Artikel 25 Toldkontrol i forbindelse med det digitale produktpas

1.   Detergents and end-user surfactants entering the Union market shall be subject to verifications and other measures laid down in this Article.

2.   Any person intending to place a detergent or end-user surfactant under the customs procedure ‘release for free circulation’ shall provide or make available to customs authorities the unique registration identifier.

3.   Customs authorities may release a detergent or end-user surfactant for free circulation only after having verified as a minimum that the unique registration identifier and the commodity code provided or made available to them corresponds to the data stored in the registry. The release for free circulation shall not be deemed to be proof of compliance with this Regulation or any other Union law.

4.   The verification referred to in paragraph 3 shall take place electronically and automatically via the interconnection between the registry and the EU Customs Single Window Certificates Exchange System and shall apply from 23 September 2029 or from the date that interconnection is operational, whichever is later.

5.   Customs authorities and the Commission may retrieve and use the data on the detergent or end-user surfactant included in the digital product passport and the registry for carrying out their duties pursuant to Union law, including risk management, customs controls and release for free circulation in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 952/2013.

6.   The verifications and other measures laid down in this Article shall be carried out on the basis of the list of commodity codes and product description set out in Annex VII.

7.   This Article is without prejudice to any other Union legal acts, in particular Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 and Chapter VII of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.