Changes from adopted text to adopted text

Removed(14) ‘exporter’ means any person who has the power to determine and has determined that the goods are to be taken out of the customs territory of the Union;

Removed(15) ‘customs representative’ means any person appointed by another person to carry out the acts and formalities required under the customs legislation in that person’s dealings with customs authorities;

Removed(16) ‘data’ means any digital and non-digital representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of such acts, facts or information, including in the form of document, sound, visual or audio-visual recording;

Removed(17) ‘customs surveillance’ means collecting and analysing information, in relation to goods entering, exiting or passing through the customs territory of the Union in order to monitor these movements at Union level and ensure the uniform application of customs controls, the compliance with customs legislation and other legislation applied by the customs authorities and to contribute to risk analysis and management;

Removed(18) ‘risk’ means the likelihood and the impact of an event occurring, with regard to goods moved between the customs territory of the Union and countries outside that territory and to the presence within the customs territory of the Union of non-Union goods, which would:

Removed(a) compromise the financial or economic interests of the Union and its Member States;

Removed(b) pose a threat to the security and safety of the Union and its citizens and residents; or [Am. 61]

Removed(ba) pose a threat to public health within the Union; or [Am. 62]

Removed(c) prevent the correct application of Union or national measures;

Removed(19) ‘economic analysis’ means the evaluation or quantification of a policy or an economic phenomenon, to understand how economic factors affect the functioning of a policy, a geographical area, or any group of persons with a view to making better decisions for the future;

Removed(20) ‘risk management’ means the systematic identification of risk, including identifying profiles of risky economic operators, suspicious transactions, and the implementation of all measures necessary for limiting exposure to risk; [Am. 63]

Removed(21) ‘customs supervision’ means action taken in general by the customs authorities with a view to ensuring that customs legislation and, where appropriate, other legislation applied by the customs authorities is observed, or to otherwise contribute to the management of risks related to those goods and their supply chains;

Removed(22) ‘customs controls’ means specific acts performed by the customs authorities in order to ensure compliance with the customs legislation and other legislation applied by the customs authorities, or in order to otherwise contribute to the management of risks related to goods and their supply chains;

Removed(23) ‘random controls’ means customs controls based on principles of random sampling, with regard to a population of interest;

Removed(24) ‘holder of the goods’ means the person who has physical control of the goods;

Removed(25) ‘carrier’ means:

Removed(a) in the context of entry, the person who brings the goods, or who assumes responsibility for the carriage of the goods, into the customs territory of the Union. However,

Removed(i) in the case of combined transportation, ‘carrier’ means the person who operates the means of transport which, once brought into the customs territory of the Union, moves by itself as an active means of transport;

Removed(ii) in the case of maritime or air traffic under a vessel-sharing or contracting arrangement, ‘carrier’ means the person who concludes a contract and issues a bill of lading or air waybill for the actual carriage of the goods into the customs territory of the Union;

Removed(b) in the context of exit, the person who takes the goods, or who assumes responsibility for the carriage of the goods, out of the customs territory of the Union. However:

Removed(i) in the case of combined transportation, where the active means of transport leaving the customs territory of the Union is only transporting another means of transport which, after the arrival of the active means of transport at its destination, will move by itself as an active means of transport, ‘carrier’ means the person who will operate the means of transport which will move by itself once the means of transport leaving the customs territory of the Union has arrived at its destination;

Removed(ii) in the case of maritime or air traffic under a vessel-sharing or contracting arrangement, ‘carrier’ means the person who concludes a contract, and issues a bill of lading or air waybill, for the actual carriage of the goods out of the customs territory of the Union;

Removed(26) ‘risk analysis’ means the processing of data, information or documents, including personal data, with a view to the identification or quantification of possible risks, using where relevant analytical methods and artificial intelligence as defined Article 3, point (1), of Regulation (EU) /…/… of the European Parliament and of the Council;

Removed(27) ‘risk signal’ means the indication of a possible risk based on automated processing operations implementing risk analysis on data, information or documents;

Removed(28) ‘risk analysis result’ means, the determination, in the case of a signal, that a risk is or is not considered present, based on an automatic process or from further human assessment of the risk signal;

Removed(29) ‘control recommendation’ means the opinion of a customs authority or of the EU Customs Authority, as regards whether and if so when, where and by which customs authority a customs control is to be carried out, including the identification of possible additional actions other than customs controls;

Removed(30) ‘control decision’ means the individual act by which the customs authorities decide a control shall or shall not take place;

Removed(31) ‘control result’ means the preliminary and final outcome of a control, including the further action indicated, if any, and the competent authorities concerned with the outcome or action, if any;

Removed(32) ‘common priority control area’ means a selection of particular customs procedures, types of goods, traffic routes, modes of transport or economic operators with a view to subjecting them to increased levels of risk analysis and mitigation measures and customs controls during a certain period, without prejudice to other controls usually carried out by the customs authorities;

Removed(33) ‘common risk criteria and standards’ means parameters for risk analysis for a risk area and accompanying standards regarding the practical application of the criteria;

Removed(34) ‘supervision strategy’ means an approach to handling a specific risk, which aims to balance operational customs supervision efforts and mitigation measures across the supply chain in a proportionate and effective manner;

Removed(35) ‘consignment’ means goods, conveyed by one consignor to one consignee, by the same means of transport including multimodal, and coming from the same territory or third country, being of the same type, class or description or being packed together, under the same transport contract;

Removed(36) ‘customs status’ means the status of goods as Union or non-Union goods;

Removed(37) ‘Union goods’ means goods which fall into any of the following categories:

Removed(a) goods wholly obtained in the customs territory of the Union and not incorporating goods imported from third countries;

Removed(b) goods brought into the customs territory of the Union from third countries and released for free circulation;

Removed(c) goods obtained or produced in the customs territory of the Union, either solely from goods referred to in point (b) or from goods referred to in points (a) and (b);

Removed(38) ‘non-Union goods’ means goods other than those referred to in point (46) or which have lost their customs status as Union goods;

Removed(39) ‘release of goods’ means the act whereby the customs authorities, or other persons on their behalf, make goods available for the purposes specified for the customs procedure under which they are intended to be placed;

Removed(40) ‘entry summary declaration’ means the act whereby a person informs the customs authorities, in the prescribed form and manner and within a specific time-limit, that goods are to be brought into the customs territory of the Union;

Removed(41) ‘exit summary declaration’ means the act whereby a person informs the customs authorities, in the prescribed form and manner and within a specific time-limit, that goods are to be taken out of the customs territory of the Union;

Removed(42) ‘temporary storage declaration’ means the act whereby a person indicates, in the prescribed form and manner, that goods are in temporary storage;

Removed(43) ‘customs declaration’ means the act whereby a person indicates, in the prescribed form and manner, a wish to place goods under a given customs procedure, with an indication, where appropriate, of any specific arrangements to be applied;

Removed(44) ‘declarant’ means the person lodging a customs declaration, a temporary storage declaration, an entry summary declaration, an exit summary declaration, a re-export declaration or a re-export notification in that person’s own name or the person in whose name such a declaration or notification is lodged;

Removed(45) ‘re-export declaration’ means the act whereby a person indicates, in the prescribed form and manner, a wish to take non-Union goods, with the exception of those under the free zone procedure or in temporary storage, out of the customs territory of the Union;

Removed(46) ‘re-export notification’ means the act whereby a person indicates, in the prescribed form and manner, a wish to take non-Union goods which are under the free zone procedure or in temporary storage out of the customs territory of the Union;

Removed(47) ‘distance sales of goods imported from third countries’ means distance sales of goods imported from third countries or third territories as defined in Article 14(4), point (2), of Directive 2006/112/EC;

Removed(48) ‘manufacturer’ means:

Removed(a) the manufacturer of the product pursuant to the other legislation applicable to that product; or

Removed(b) the producer with respect to agricultural products as defined in Article 38(1) TFEU or to raw materials; or

Removed(c) if there is no manufacturer or producer as referred to in points (a) and (b), the natural or legal person or association of persons who manufactured the product or had the product manufactured, and markets that product under that person’s name or trademark;

Removed(49) ‘product supplier’ means any natural or legal person or association of person in the supply chain who manufactures a product in whole or in part, whether as manufacturer or in any other circumstance;

Removed(50) ‘temporary storage’ means the situation of non-Union goods temporarily stored under customs supervision in the period between the moment in which the carrier notifies their arrival to the customs territory and their placement under a customs procedure;

Removed(51) ‘processed products’ means goods placed under a processing procedure which have undergone processing operations;

Removed(52) ‘processing operations’ means any of the following:

Removed(a) the working of goods, including erecting, assembling or fitting those goods to other goods;

Removed(b) the processing of goods;

Removed(c) the destruction of goods;

Removed(d) the repair of goods, including restoring and putting those goods in order;

Removed(e) the use of goods which are not to be found in the processed products, but which allow or facilitate the production of those products, even if they are entirely or partially used up in the process (production accessories);