# Commission Regulation (EC) No 312/2009 of 16 April 2009 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 establishing the Community Customs Code, Annex III

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Annex 38, Title II, is amended as follows:
1.. the text of box 2: Consignor/Exporter is replaced by the following:
‘Where an identification number is required, the EORI number shall be used. It is structured as follows:
Field
Content
Field type
Format
Examples
1
Identifier of the Member State assigning the number (ISO alpha 2 country code)
Alphabetic 2
a2
PL
2
Unique identifier in a Member State
Alphanumeric 15
an..15
1234567890ABCDE
Example: ‘PL1234567890ABCDE’ for a Polish exporter (country code: PL) whose unique national EORI number is ‘1234567890ABCDE’.
Country code: the Community’s alphabetical codes for countries and territories are based on the current ISO alpha 2 codes (a2) in so far as they are compatible with the requirements of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 of 22 May 1995 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods by the Community and its Member States with non-member countries. The Commission regularly publishes regulations updating the list of country codes.’;
2.. the text of box 8: Consignee is replaced by the following:
‘Where an identification number is required, the EORI number, structured as specified in the description for box 2, shall be used.’;
3.. in box 14: Declarant/Representative, point (b) is amended as follows:
(a) the first sentence is replaced by the following:
‘Where an identification number is required, the EORI number, structured as specified in the description for box 2, shall be used.’;
(b) the second sentence is deleted;
4.. the following box 50 is inserted after box 49:
‘ Box 50: Principal
Where an identification number is required, the EORI number, structured as specified in the description for box 2, shall be used.’

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/312/annex/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-312/annex-III
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