The declaration of goods should be made through the representative in relations with the Customs Service, who is the customs broker or declarant.
A declarant is any person who has the right to dispose of goods and/or means of transport and prepares the customs declaration in its own name or the person in whose name a customs declaration is made, without using the services of a customs broker, and who is authorized to use the customs information system to declare goods.
Any economic agent can be a declarant and can file the customs declaration in its own name without resorting to agents or customs brokers.
I. Requirements for authorization and acquisition of the status of the declarant in its own name
1. be registered in the Asycuda World Information System for customs purposes.
The declarant should be registered in the Republic of Moldova and only in the case of submission of the transit customs declaration, the declarant can be a person from another country.
2. be authorized to access the module of the Asycuda World Information System, which is required to process the customs declaration
The authorization regarding the capacity of user of the customs information system is issued to economic agents that meet the following requirements:
- have adequate IT infrastructure;
- use standards of connection to the customs information system approved by the Customs Service;
- do not have debts to the Customs Service;
- have at least one employed customs clearance expert.
In order to receive an authorization from the Head Office of the Customs Service, the economic agent should submit an application and a statement of commitment (.docx, .pdf) with the following attachments:
- technical diagram (flowchart) for connection to the customs information system;
- copy of the registration certificate, containing the single registration number (IDNO).
The Customs Service shall check the application for authorization, the attached documents and the technical diagram for connection to the customs information system.
If the economic agent meets all the requirements cumulatively, the authorization is issued by an Order of the Customs Service, based on which the economic agent receives the access keys to the information module to process the customs declaration in detail.
The authorization may be canceled by the Customs Service when it is found that one of the requirements that served as a basis for granting the authorization is no longer met or when the authorized person does not comply with the operating and security rules imposed by the customs information system.
A new authorization may be issued after one calendar year from the date of cancellation of the previous authorization.
3. hold an electronic signature issued by the Information Technology and Cyber Security Service (https://www.semnatura.md/)
II. Rights and duties of the declarant in its own name
The economic agent, as a declarant in its own name, assumes responsibility for the payment of taxes and duties, submission of the customs declaration and required documents, presentation of goods and assistance to the Customs Service in the customs control process.
The declarant is obliged:
- to declare goods and means of transport in line with the procedure established by the Customs Code and other regulations;
- to present, at the request of the customs authority, the declared goods and means of transport;
- to submit to the customs authority additional documents and information required for customs clearance;
- to pay import or export duties;
- to assist the customs authority in carrying out customs clearance operations, including by carrying out loading and unloading operations and other operations.
The declarant has the right, before submission of the customs declaration, to carry out, under customs supervision, the examination, measurement, weighing of the goods and means of transport, as well as to collect, with the permission of the customs authority, samples and test-pieces.
Legislation:
Customs Code of the Republic of Moldova no. 1149/20/07/2000
