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Check if you can operate a facility and meet the conditions to store imported goods temporarily and find out how to apply.
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
Check how you can operate an authorised consignee temporary storage facility so you can store goods for up to 6 days, including how to get authorised.
Putting your goods into temporary storage means you can delay the full customs declaration and payment of import VAT and duty for up to 90 days.
Find out how to link your temporary storage facility to Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) or the Customs Declaration Service using a Community Systems Provider.
It’s a key building on the Sellafield site that stores waste from one of our highest hazard legacy waste ponds.
Find out about movements to temporary storage facilities from border locations in Great Britain operating the pre-lodgement model.
How to reduce the risk of disease from your animal feed storage units.
Find out more about getting authorised consignor or consignee status to start or end transit movements at your own premises.
Find the codes which may be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where goods may be examined for a remote internal temporary storage facility (ITSF(R)) (Appendix 16E).
Find a list of codes which can be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for internal temporary storage facilities (Appendix 16D).
Find the codes which can be used in Data Element 5/23 to identify the location where the goods may be examined for an external temporary storage facility (ETSF) (Appendix 16F).
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
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