• Entry
• Customs Manifest (customs entry)
• Import Control System
• Process steps in Customs Manifest (customs entry)
  • Summary declaration for temporary storage
  • Electronic pre-notification/notification transport
    • Clearing seagoing vessels inwards and outwards in small ports
  • Risk analysis and selection on the summary declaration for temporary storage
  • Select a customs destionation
  • Write-off against summary declaration
• Declarations for goods entered by sea
• Expired messages in Customs Manifest (Entry)

Electronic pre-notification/notification transport

For all means of transport you have to submit an electronic pre-notification/notification. This pre-notification of means of transport should be submitted 2 hours prior to arrival at the latest. This also applies to empty means of transport and means of transport which only have passengers on board.

As of 31 January 2010 when arriving from sea you have to electronically declare both the vessel and the goods at the first customs office of entry.

For this declaration you will need a Call Reference Number (CRN). The call reference number will replace the Customs clearing number. The port authorities of the larger and medium-sized ports will issue the call reference number. But in some of the smaller ports the port authorities are not able to issue this call reference number. A separate procedure applies to these ports.

In the following ports the port authorities do not issue a call reference number:

Private

• Travel baggage
• Internetpurchases
• Removal goods
• Excise duties and consumption taxes

Business

• Entry
• Import
• Storage
• Transport of goods
• Export
• Export (ECS Exit)
• Safety, health, economy and environment (VGEM)
• Excise duties and consumption taxes