Article 120 Authorisation to establish regular shipping services(Article 155(2) of the Code)
United Kingdom
An authorisation may be granted by the customs authority competent to take the decision to a shipping company for the purposes of regular shipping services entitling it to move Union goods from one point to another within the customs territory of the Union and temporarily out of that territory without alteration of the customs status of Union goods.
An authorisation shall be granted only where:
the shipping company is established in the customs territory of the Union;
it fulfils the criterion laid down in Article 39(a) of the Code;
it undertakes to communicate to the customs authority competent to take the decision the information referred to in Article 121(1) after the authorisation is issued; and
it undertakes not to make any calls on the routes of the regular shipping service at any port in a territory outside the customs territory of the Union or at any free zone in a Union port, and not to make any transhipments of goods at sea.
Shipping companies having been granted an authorisation in accordance with this Article shall provide the regular shipping service stated therein.
The regular shipping service shall be provided using vessels registered for that purpose in accordance with Article 121.