The UK’s Customs Freight Simplified Procedure has allowed authorised importers to submit simplified declarations when the goods enter Great Britain, with supplementary (full) declarations due within 175 days of import. This system will run until end-2021. For Irish traders acting as importers into Great Britain from the start of 2021 these supplementary declarations have been becoming due. The declarations may be completed by firms themselves or by their Customs agents/fast parcel operators.
More information available here.
Information available here
The UK government has produced a list of Customs agents and fast parcel operators.
Non-binding advice on commodity codes can be sought in the first instance. Contact details: tarclass@revenue.ie and classification.enquiries@hmrc.gov.uk
There are several methods for calculating the Customs value of goods. The transaction value of goods is the most common, but there are other methods:
A helpful summary is available here.
BIM’s Brexit Mentoring Programme provides grant funding of up to €4,000 per company for consultations with specialists – here.
Training is available from:
Fresh Fish to GB Ports
These documents must be submitted by the Master or a representative to the GB importer for onward transmission to the UK authorities.
The UK authorities may then issue Pre-authorisation to land at a GB designated port.
For more information on the UK requirements, see this link.
Pre-notification must be given 72 hours in advance of intended landing.
All documentation required is as for Fresh Fish.
In addition:
Port | Third Country Nationality | Vessel Size | Species | Presentation | Access Times |
Burtonport | NI vessels | <18M | Non-TAC | Fresh only | 14:00 to 20:00 weekdays |
Rathmullen | |||||
Greencastle | |||||
Howth | <26M | All Demersal | Fresh or Frozen* Fish | 10:00 to 22:00 Weekdays | |
Rosamhíl | |||||
Killybegs | All Third Country vessels | All | All | All | |
Castletownbere |
*These ports are not EU Approved Border Control Posts. Consequently, frozen fish may only be landed by fishing vessels registered either in NI or EFTA countries, including Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands.
Irish authorities may carry out inspections before, during or after discharge.
Further information on the ports and the products they can handle, here.
Not all handle fish and fishery products. Which ones do?
The Operator Responsible must:
For more details, see Irish Revenue and HMRC.
The UK is introducing rules in stages:
A consignment of fishery products may consist of fish from more than one landing and so will need more than one Catch Certificate, or, if all from the one Flag State, there can be one Catch Certificate with a schedule of the different landings.
This list is likely to be expanded to include new BCPs which will be constructed at or near existing Irish Sea ferry ports (Holyhead and Fishguard/Pembroke).
Fuller information on electronic transit declarations is available here.
More information here.
The FSAI has a short training exercise to identify composite products.
For fish, EU Commission guidance refers to “processed fishery products”, which are processed “seawater or freshwater animals whether wild or farmed, but excludes: processed live bivalve molluscs, live echinoderms, live tunicates and live marine gastropods” (e.g. cockles, mussels, clams, scallops, oysters, star fish, periwinkles, whelks and abalone).
They may need health certificates. It depends on the risks to animal and public health posed by the composite product and whether they are classed as higher or lower risk.
Higher risk products are:
Lower risk products are:
Composite products exempted from controls at the BCP
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Rules for composite fishery products may include paperwork and a check: CHED, health certificate, catch certificate and stopping at a Border Control Post.
Health certificates may be required. It depends on how much the fishery products represent. If 50% or more, they’ll require health and catch certificates.