Article 4 Cancellation of the electronic administrative document

The consignor wanting to cancel the electronic administrative document as referred to in Article 21(7) of Directive 2008/118/EC shall complete the fields of the draft cancellation message and submit it to the competent authorities of the Member State of dispatch. The draft cancellation message shall comply with the requirements set out in Table 2 of Annex I to this Regulation.

The competent authorities of the Member State of dispatch shall carry out an electronic verification of the data in the draft cancellation message.

Where those data are valid, those authorities shall add the date and time of validation to the cancellation message, communicate that information to the consignor and forward the cancellation message to the competent authorities of the Member State of destination. Where those data are not valid, the consignor shall be informed thereof without delay.

Upon receipt of the cancellation message, the competent authorities of the Member State of destination shall forward the cancellation message to the consignee where the consignee is an authorised warehousekeeper or a registered consignee.