{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-952/article-245",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-952/article-245.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/952",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-952",
  "path": "article/245",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "245",
  "heading": "Presentation of goods and their placing under the procedure",
  "text": "1. Goods brought into a free zone shall be presented to customs and undergo the prescribed customs formalities in any of the following cases:\n(a) where they are brought into the free zone directly from outside the customs territory of the Union;\n(b) where they have been placed under a customs procedure which is ended or discharged when they are placed under the free zone procedure;\n(c) where they are placed under the free zone procedure in order to benefit from a decision granting repayment or remission of import duty;\n(d) where legislation other than the customs legislation provides for such formalities.\n2. Goods brought into a free zone in circumstances other than those covered by paragraph 1 shall not be presented to customs.\n3. Without prejudice to Article 246, goods brought into a free zone are deemed to be placed under the free zone procedure:\n(a) at the moment of their entry into a free zone, unless they have already been placed under another customs procedure; or\n(b) at the moment when a transit procedure is ended, unless they are immediately placed under a subsequent customs procedure.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/952/article/245",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:22.103143+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}