Filing a declaration

If you want to deposit goods in a storage institute or remove goods stored in this institute, you will have to file a declaration. Through submission of this declaration, the goods are placed under the customs warehousing system or deposited in premises for temporary storage, a free warehouse or a free zone of control type 2, or the placement of goods under this system is terminated or the storage at the temporary storage premises, free warehouse or free zone of control type 2 is terminated. These declarations should be made to the customs office specified in the authorisation. It is only when a declaration has been filed that the goods may be transferred to or taken from the storage institute.

The declaration should be made by the person who wants to store or remove the goods and declares himself willing to fulfil the obligations applicable to these goods.

Simplified procedures

In a number of cases, a simplified declaration procedure may be followed, depending on the degree of reliability offered by the administrator's (warehouse keeper's) accounts. This will require a separate authorisation from Customs. The following simplified procedures are possible:

• Deposit in the customs warehouse based on the customs document (such as a transit document) with which the goods were presented to Customs.
  In these cases, you should simultaneously make a written application for placement under the system to Customs, stating that you are responsible for the goods.
• The local clearance procedure. This means that an authorisation will be granted after Customs has checked the warehouse keeper's accounts. In that case, the goods can be deposited in the customs warehouse directly, without the intervention of Customs. The warehouse keeper should enter the deposit of the goods in his accounts. A local clearance procedure is not possible with regard to a type B customs warehouse.

Filing a declaration with AGS

As from December 2011, you can use AGS to make storage declarations for goods to be placed in a type B or C warehouse. In the current Sagitta system, these are the IMA declarations with procedure code 7100.