TITLE IIICUSTOMS DEBT AND GUARANTEES

CHAPTER 1Incurrence of a customs debt

Section 1Customs debt on import

Article 77Release for free circulation and temporary admission

1.

A customs debt on import shall be incurred through the placing of non-Union goods liable to import duty under either of the following customs procedures:

(a)

release for free circulation, including under the end-use provisions;

(b)

temporary admission with partial relief from import duty.

2.

A customs debt shall be incurred at the time of acceptance of the customs declaration.

3.

The declarant shall be the debtor. In the event of indirect representation, the person on whose behalf the customs declaration is made shall also be a debtor.

Where a customs declaration in respect of one of the procedures referred to in paragraph 1 is drawn up on the basis of information which leads to all or part of the import duty not being collected, the person who provided the information required to draw up the declaration and who knew, or who ought reasonably to have known, that such information was false shall also be a debtor.