Regulation 2020/261 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 389/2012 on administrative cooperation in the field of excise duties as regards the content of electronic registers - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 58/1

Article 19 of Council Regulation (EU) No 389/2012 (3) lays down an obligation for Member States to maintain electronic registers of authorisations of economic operators and warehouses that are engaged in moving excise goods under duty suspension arrangements.

Council Directive (EU) 2020/262 (4) extends the use of the computerised system under Decision (EU) 2020/263 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5), which is currently used to supervise movements of excise goods under duty suspension, to the supervision of excise goods released for consumption in the territory of one Member State and then moved to the territory of another Member State in order to be delivered for commercial purposes.

In order to allow for the proper functioning of the computerised system by ensuring storage of complete, up-to-date and accurate data, it is necessary to amend the scope of Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 389/2012 to include two new categories of economic operators: certified consignors who are registered as consignors for excise goods that have already been released for consumption, and certified consignees who are registered as consignees for excise goods that have already been released for consumption.

In accordance with Article 22 of Directive (EU) 2020/262, in the case of movement of energy products under a duty suspension arrangement by sea or inland waterways, the competent authorities of the Member State of dispatch may authorise the consignor to omit the details of the consignee at the time of dispatch in the draft electronic administrative document referred to in Article 20(2) of that Directive. In accordance with Regulation (EU) No 389/2012 only an authorised warehousekeeper is to include that information in the electronic register. It is essential that also the registered consignor is able to introduce into the electronic register the information concerning his right to omit the details of the consignee at the time of dispatch.

Since the objective of this Regulation, namely the extension of the electronic register to include economic operators moving excise goods released for consumption, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of ensuring the harmonised functioning of the computerised system and facilitating the fight against fraud, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.

This Regulation respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles which are recognised by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular the right to the protection of personal data. In the view of the limits set by the present Regulation, the processing of such data carried out within the framework of this Regulation does not go beyond...