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Chapter I: Declaration in detail

Article 84 of the French Customs Code

1. All imported or exported goods must be covered by an accounting declaration assigning them a customs procedure. 2. Exemption from duties and taxes, either on entry or on exit, does not dispense from the obligation laid down in this Article.

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Article 85 of the French Customs Code

1. The declaration must be lodged at a customs office open for the intended customs operation. 2. The declaration must be lodged at the latest before the expiry of a period set by the Director General of Customs and Excise, starting from the arrival of the goods at the office or in the places designated by the customs service. This deposit must take place during the hours set by the…

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Article 86 of the French Customs Code

The conditions under which a customs representative may provide his services pursuant to Article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 establishing the Union Customs Code are laid down by the order provided for inArticle 17a of this Code.

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Article 87 of the French Customs Code

In addition to the compulsory information provided for in II ofarticle 289 of the General Tax Code, the customs representative shall mention on the invoices issued for his principals the date of payment to the customs accountant of the duties and taxes paid on importation pursuant toarticle 114 of this Code.

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Article 95 of the French Customs Code

1. Declarations must be made in writing except where, in application of Community regulations in force, an oral declaration is substituted. 1 bis. In the cases for which the list and conditions of application are laid down by orders of the Minister responsible for customs, declarations may be made electronically. These decrees shall in particular lay down the conditions for identifying declarants and the procedures for keeping documents which must…

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Article 98 of the French Customs Code

1. Persons authorised to lodge accounting declarations, where they are not in possession of the information necessary to draw them up, may be authorised to examine the goods before declaration and to take samples. They must then submit a provisional declaration to the customs authorities, which may in no case release them from the obligation to make an accounting declaration. 2. Any manipulation likely to alter the presentation of goods…

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Article 99 of the French Customs Code

1. Customs officials shall immediately register accounting entries which they have accepted as admissible. 2. Declarations which are irregular in form or which are not accompanied by the documents required to be produced shall be deemed inadmissible. 3. Where, in a declaration, there is a contradiction between a statement, in letters or figures, worded in accordance with customs terminology and a statement which does not conform to this terminology, the…

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Article 99 bis of the French Customs Code

For the application of this Code, and in particular of duties and taxes, prohibitions and other measures, declarations lodged in advance only take effect, with all the consequences attached to registration, from the date on which proof is provided, under the conditions and within the time limits laid down in Article 85 above, of the arrival of the goods and provided that the said declarations satisfy the conditions required on…

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