{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2124/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2124/article-31.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/2124",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2124 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for official controls of consignments of animals and goods in transit, transhipment and onward transportation through the Union, and amending Commission Regulations (EC) No 798/2008, (EC) No 1251/2008, (EC) No 119/2009, (EU) No 206/2010, (EU) No 605/2010, (EU) No 142/2011, (EU) No 28/2012, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/759 and Commission Decision 2007/777/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2124",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Monitoring of delivery of goods to a vessel leaving the territory of Great Britain to travel to a third country",
  "text": "1. The competent authorities of the border control post of introduction into Great Britain or of the warehouse shall notify the dispatch of consignments of goods referred to in Article 19 and Article 23(1) and their place of destination to the competent authority of the port of destination, through the appropriate computerised information management system.\n2. The operator may unload consignments of the goods referred to in Article 19 and Article 23(1) at the port of destination before the delivery of the consignments to the vessel leaving the territory of Great Britain to travel to a third country provided that the operation is authorised and supervised by the customs authority, and the conditions of delivery indicated in the notification referred to in paragraph 1 are met.\n3. Upon completion of delivery on board the vessel of the consignments of goods referred to in paragraph 1, the competent authority of the port of destination or the representative of the master of the vessel shall confirm the delivery to the competent authorities of the border control post of introduction into Great Britain or of the warehouse, either by:\n(a) countersigning the official certificate referred to in point (c) of Article 29; or\n(b) use of electronic means, including through appropriate computerised information management system ....\n4. The representative referred to in paragraph 3 or the operator responsible for the delivery of the consignment to the vessel leaving the territory of Great Britain to travel to a third country shall return, within a period of 15 days from the date of delivery of the consignment, the countersigned official certificate referred to in paragraph 3(a), to the competent authorities of the border control post of introduction into Great Britain or of the warehouse.\n5. The competent authority of the port of destination, the competent authorities of border control post of introduction into Great Britain or the competent authority of the warehouse shall verify that the confirmation of delivery referred to in paragraph 3 is recorded in the appropriate computerised information management system or that the countersigned documents referred to in point (a) of paragraph 3 are returned to the competent authorities of the border control post of introduction into Great Britain or to the competent authority of the warehouse.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(29)(b) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulation substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), reg. 26(2) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(29)(a) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(29)(b) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31(3)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(29)(c) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(29)(d) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 26(29)(b) (with regs. 33-36)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2124/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:56.209249+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."
}