Article 5 Submission of applications

United Kingdom

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Applications shall be submitted to the competent customs department. The applications shall be completed using the form referred to in Article 6 and shall contain the information required therein.

Where an application is submitted after notification by the customs authorities of the suspension of the release or detention of the goods in accordance with Article 18(3), that application shall comply with the following:

(a)

it is submitted to the competent customs department within four working days of the notification of the suspension of the release or detention of the goods;

F2(b)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)

it contains the information referred to in Article 6(3). The applicant may, however, omit the information referred to in point (g), (h) or (i) of that paragraph.

F34.

Only one application may be submitted for the same intellectual property right.

F45.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Where computerised systems are available for the purpose of receiving and processing applications, applications as well as attachments shall be submitted using electronic data-processing techniques.F5...

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Art. 5(1) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 7(a) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Art. 5(3)(b) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 7(b) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Art. 5(4) substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 7(c) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4: Art. 5(5) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 7(d) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5: Words in Art. 5(6) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 7(e) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)