SPE02120 - Roles and responsibilities: Border Force
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Border Force (BF) are responsible for:
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- carrying out examinations at ports, airports and inland clearance facilities where selected and notified by the supervising office, to verify goods presented agree with customs declarations made
- checking and endorsing forms where required to be presented on importation/exportation
- giving advance notification to the importer/exporter, or agent, if their consignment has been selected for examination and/or sampling
- liaising with agents and port authorities on all aspects of the planning and conduct of examinations and post-examination activity
- taking samples and completing sample test notes where required by the supervising office.
Note: Northern Ireland (NI) customs authorisations will continue to fall within the provisions of the Union Customs Code (UCC), as retained by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and CEMA 1979.