Amendment and invalidation of a declaration

You can amend a transit declaration when you are initiating a transit at a customs office. You can amend a declaration by an authorised consignor up until you have received a release for transit notification from Customs. After this, the declaration cannot be amended; instead, you have to request that the transit declaration be invalidated and lodge a new declaration.

You can only invalidate transit declarations submitted in Finland. You can request invalidation e.g. when

  • the goods have been placed under another customs procedure
  • Union goods have been incorrectly placed under the T1 transit procedure
  • the consignment has already been placed under the transit procedure (so-called double transit).

Amending a transit declaration

In the Customs Clearance Service, you can amend a transit declaration by clicking on “Amend” in the declaration. A declaration submitted through message exchange can be amended using the amendment request message FI013.

The following details cannot be amended using an amendment request:

  • Parties
    • holder of the transit procedure
    • representative
  • LRN (in message exchange)
  • Security code/security indicator
  • Declaration type (in the Customs Clearance Service)
    • A T declaration cannot be changed into a TIR declaration or vice versa
  • Additional declaration type
    • An A declaration cannot be changed into a D declaration or vice versa
  • Authorisation details (in the Customs Clearance Service)

An arrival notification or an unloading report cannot be amended. If incorrect details have been provided in an arrival notification or in an unloading report, send email to spake.passitus(at)tulli.fi. 

Invalidation of a transit declaration

In the Customs Clearance Service, you can request invalidation of a transit declaration by clicking on “Contact Customs” or “Invalidation request”. You can request invalidation of a declaration submitted through message exchange using the message FI014.

The invalidation request can be submitted 

  • after registration or acceptance of the declaration before release for the procedure
  • when the goods covered by the declaration have been released for the procedure, but the transit movement has not yet crossed the Finnish border or arrived at the customs office of destination in Finland.
    • If one of the above has already taken place, the transit procedure is discharged at the destination or with messages sent by the authorised consignee.

Invalidation can be requested for the whole declaration or for a goods item. If the transit declaration has not yet been accepted but it has been registered, invalidation always concerns the whole declaration. 

The invalidation request form (Customs form 285s, available in Finnish) is only used when it is not possible to discharge the procedure in the normal manner at the customs office or at an authorised consignee’s premises.

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