22.11.2018   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 296/1


Amendments to the Customs Convention on the International Transport of goods under cover of TIR carnets (TIR Convention 1975)

According to UN Depositary Notification C.N.557.2018.TREATIES — XI.A.16 the following amendments to the TIR Convention enter into force on 3 February 2019 for all Contracting Parties

 

Article 1, paragraph (q)

After ‘customs authorities’ add ‘or other competent authorities’.

 

Article 3, paragraph (b)

For ‘approved’ read ‘authorized’.

 

Article 6, paragraph 2

For ‘approved’ read ‘authorized’.

 

Article 11, paragraph 3

For ‘three months’ read ‘one month’.

 

Article 38, paragraph 1

For the existing text read:

‘1.   Each of the Contracting Parties shall have the right to exclude temporarily or permanently from the operation of this Convention any person guilty of a serious or repeated offence against the customs laws or regulations applicable to the international transport of goods. The conditions in which the offence against the customs laws or regulations is considered to be serious shall be decided by the Contracting Party.’