For the purpose of Article 15(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 389/2012, where a competent authority of the Member State of dispatch has received evidence of the completion of a movement of excise goods under duty suspension arrangement and the movement cannot be closed under Article 24 or Article 25 of Directive 2008/118/EC, it shall decide whether to close the movement of excise goods manually.

The competent authority of the Member State of dispatch shall notify the competent authorities of the Member State of destination or of the Member State of export of its decision.

The notification of a decision to manually close a movement shall be made by means of a ‘ Manual Closure Response ’ document, set out in Table 16 of Annex I to this Regulation.