Article 51 2.

a notifier that is not established within the Union and has no access to a system referred to in Article 27, may submit the notification and any requested additional information and documentation to the competent authorities concerned by post, or if appropriate, by fax or email with digital signature; in case of email with digital signature, any stamp or signature required shall be replaced by the digital signature;

the notifier, or where the notifier is not established within the Union and has no access to a system referred to in Article 27, the competent authority of destination in the Union, shall ensure that all relevant information, at least the notification document including any annexes, the movement document including any annexes, the written consents, information about tacit consents and the conditions, are included in that system;

the competent authority of destination and any competent authority of transit in the Union shall inform the competent authority of dispatch and any competent authority of transit outside the Union of any request for information and documentation from their side and of their decision on the planned shipment, by post, or if appropriate, by fax or email with digital signature unless the competent authorities in the countries concerned have access to the central system referred to in Article 27(3);

the information to be provided to the competent authority of dispatch and any competent authority of transit outside the Union pursuant to Articles 7, 8, 16 and 17 shall be provided by post, or if appropriate, by fax or email with digital signature, unless those authorities are connected to a system referred to in Article 27;

a competent authority of transit outside the Union shall have 60 days from the date of transmission of its acknowledgement of receipt of a properly completed notification, to provide, if the country concerned has decided not to require prior written consent and has informed the other Parties to the Basel Convention thereof in accordance with Article 6(4) of that Convention, tacit consent or to give a written consent with or without conditions;

in the cases referred to in Article 50(1), point (d), involving situations of crisis, peacemaking or peacekeeping operations, or war, the consent of the competent authorities of dispatch shall not be required.