Regulation 2 General interpretative provisionsC1I1I2C2

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018;

• “acceptance”, “accept” and “notification of acceptance”, in respect of an export declaration, are to be construed in accordance with Chapter 10 of Part 4;

• F1“accompanied baggage on departure” means baggage which—

  1. (a)

     accompanies an individual when departing from the United Kingdom, or

  1. (b)

     would have accompanied the individual had the baggage not been delayed in transit from the United Kingdom;

• F2“authorised foreign designated operator” has the meaning given by regulation 23AA(2);

• “available for examination”, in respect of goods made available for examination or making goods available for examination, is to be construed in accordance with regulation 40;

• “CIDEER 2018” means the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 M1;

• “common export procedure”, in relation to goods declared for it, has the meaning given in regulation 6;

• “CSPOP 2018” means the Customs (Special Procedures and Outward Processing) EU Exit Regulations 2018 M2;

• “discharge”, in relation to discharging goods from a common export procedure, is to be construed in accordance with regulation 50 (and references to goods “discharged” from that procedure are to be construed accordingly);

• “exit summary declaration” has the same meaning as it has in Article 5(10) of the UCC;

• “export declaration” means a declaration for F3a common export procedure made or treated as made in accordance with Part 4;

• F4“foreign designated operator” means a designated operator within the meaning given in the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union done at Vienna on 10 July 1964, as amended by the Additional Protocols, which is acting—

  1. (a)

     outside the territory of the member country that designated them as such, and

  2. (b)

     in accordance with the UP Convention.

• “non-commercial goods” means goods—

  1. (a)

     which are provided by one individual to another,

  2. (b)

     where no payment is made, directly or indirectly, for the goods by the recipient,

  3. (c)

     which are for the personal use of the recipient, and

  4. (d)

     which do not form part of a series of consignments of goods made between the individuals;

• “notification of export” is to be construed in accordance with section 34 of the Act and Part 5;

• F5“onward export notification” means a notification given in accordance with Part 8A;

• F6“personal gifts on export” means goods contained within accompanied baggage on departure of a qualifying departing traveller which—

  1. (a)

     are intended for an individual's personal use,

  2. (b)

     are not exported for commercial purposes, and

  3. (c)

     do not form part of a series of consignments of goods exported by the qualifying departing traveller;

• “qualifying departing traveller” means an individual who—

  1. (a)

     is resident in the United Kingdom and is departing for a temporary stay outside the United Kingdom, or

  2. (b)

     is not resident in the United Kingdom and is departing after a temporary stay in the United Kingdom;

• F7...

• “release”, in relation to releasing goods F8to a common export procedure, is to be construed in accordance with regulation 49 (and references to goods “released” to that procedure are to be construed accordingly);

• “the UCC” means Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code; F9...

• F10“the UK sector of the continental shelf” means the areas designated by Order in Council under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964;

• F11“universal service provider” means either—

  1. (a)

     a “designated operator” within the meaning given in the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union done at Vienna on 10 July 1964, as amended by the Additional Protocols, but limited to the circumstances where those designated operators are acting—

     1. (i)

        within the member country that designated them as such; and

     2. (ii)

        in accordance with the UP Convention; or

  2. (b)

     an operator so designated by HMRC in a public notice made under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 5 to the Customs Transit Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2018;

• “UP Convention” means the Universal Postal Convention, as most recently done at F12Riyadh on 5 October 2023, and any Regulations made under it; and

• “verification” and “verify”, in respect of an export declaration, are to be construed in accordance with Chapter 12 of Part 4.