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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear NHColl Community,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I received an request from a colleague in the US regarding applicability of EU amendments for imports to the UK that may be worth sharing with the comunity.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><u>In short:</u></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><b>A</b><b>ll Natural History Collections outside</b><b> the EU and UK</b> which do not have and are
<b>not eligible for an EORI number</b></div>
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<li><b>need to designate a <u>Customs Broker</u></b> and should </li><li><b>include a <u>customs declaration</u></b> (instead of a commercial invoice that implies you are shipping manufactured goods that may enter the trade market). Carefully check to tick the respective box when your prepare your shipment for your postal carrier.
</li><li>should <b><u>always</u></b><b><u> request and include</u></b> the EORI-number of the receiving museum (in the UK).<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/import-customs-declaration">Here</a> is a step-by-step guide for imports to the UK - please note that the examples may only cover traded goods or personal belonging, and may not have the best fit for
museum objects sent as international loans abroad (see original NHColl post below for further details).<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/eori">Here</a> the UK government provides guidance who needs an EORI</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><u>In more detail:</u></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Not knowing the latest outcomes and results of the agreement of the British Government and the EU from earlier this week, it is worth noting that most of the UK laws still are closely aligned with EU law. In cases I know personally,
the UK Government only replaced "European Union" with "United Kingdom" when they had to transform thousands of EU laws into "new post-Brexit UK law". In the light of the massive economic damage and crisis the Brexit has caused, I would assume that the UK as
a vital interest to stay as close to EU legislation as possible. Specifically customs wise, because their currently bottleneck is Dover, were former air fields were converted in gigantic parking lots for the lorries queueing to pass Dove, but also because
the special status of Northern Ireland and the fact that the routing from UK mainland via Belfast and Dublin to the EU (without charging of taxes) is vital for the British Economy.</div>
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Vice versa, this means that for any shipments to the UK that potentially are routed via Ireland and Northern Ireland, it would be better to include an EORI.
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<p>Moreover, even within the EU, we found that because of Spanish animal health regulations the EORI number is also required for EU shipments from Germany to Spain; the situation is similar for shipments from Germany to Norway (= non-EU country but within the
Single Market), where stating of the EORI numbers of both, shipper and consignee, is mandatory in the web-interface of FedEx or DHL Express.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thus, instead of handling and managing multiple sets of shipping documents you want to add to parcels and shipments - which is very time consuming and needs a lot of attention for slightly divergent fine print - we decided to have
one shipping doc that fits all purposes. I.e.,at the LIB, we use our international template also for EU shipments, if we can expect that these are transported via air, for example shipments from Germany to Spain.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Having the EORI number in place doesn't hurt, but helps authorities involved to positively identify your institution unambiguously. Your institutional CITES registration number is also such an positive identifier, which also appears
on all our shipping docs we issue.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">With best wishes</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dirk<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 02.03.2023 um 01:17 schrieb Carol Spencer:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Dirk
<div>I am waiting to hear from the British Museum, but do you know if this EORI number applies to institutions inside Britain that aren't Ireland (which I know the latter isn't technically Great Britain).</div>
<div>Thanks so much for always posting about these things!</div>
<div>Carol</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:13 AM Dirk Neumann <<a href="mailto:d.neumann@leibniz-lib.de" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">d.neumann@leibniz-lib.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear NHColl community,</p>
<p>one of its members made the SPNHC Legs & Regs Committee aware of the following change of the Import Control System 2 (ICS2) Requirements of the European Union:</p>
<p>Required key information <font color="#0000ff"><b>for all shipments</b></font>
<font color="#0000ff"><b>to the EU </b></font>allow import <font color="#0000ff">
<b>effective from <u>1 March 2023</u></b></font><br>
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<li>the <font color="#0000ff"><b>EORI number</b> <b>of the RECIPIENT <font color="#000000">
- </font></b><font color="#000000">this is the</font><b><font color="#000000"> customs identifications number of the Recipient
</font></b><font color="#000000">in the EU / Schengen Area (termed </font><b><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></b></font></li><li>the <b>correct customs tariff Code</b> (HS) of the Harmonized System - minimum are the first six digits classifying goods; our codes are:
<ul>
<li>9705 10 00 - man-made <b>archaeological, ethnographic or historical museum artefacts</b>
</li><li>9705 21 00 - human specimens and parts thereof, i.e. specimens in / samples from
<b>anthropological collections</b> </li><li>9705 22 00<b> - </b><b>zoological or botanical s</b>pecimens and/or parts of <b>
extinct or endangered species, </b>e.g. <b>specimens / samples falling under CITES
</b>or under national conservation laws </li><li><b><font color="#0000ff">9705 29 00</font> - all other zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical or palaeontological specimens that are not categorised as 'extinct' or 'endangered'</b>
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</li><li>full and accurate goods description, i.e. <br>
<ul>
<li>What is it? - <b><font color="#0000ff">preserved museum objects</font></b><br>
</li><li>What is it made of ? - <b>dried preserved insects / formalin fixed fish / ethanol preserved tissue samples of frogs / macerated dry preserved sheep bones / marine worms embedded on microslides</b>, etc.<br>
</li><li>What is it intended for?<font color="#0000ff"><b> loaned/transferred/exchanged</b></font> for Biodiversity/Taxonomic/Molecular/Phylogenetic/Anthropological/Archaeozoological/Palaeontological<b><font color="#0000ff">Research</font></b>
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<p>This requires that all</p>
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<li> <font color="#ff0000"><b>European researchers</b> submit their institutional EORI</font> number to the respective institutions
<b><font color="#ff0000">with their loan request</font></b> </li><li><font color="#ff0000"><b>All collection staff outside the EU</b> (and Norway, Switzerland and Northern Ireland)
<b>request the EORI</b></font><b><font color="#ff0000"> <u>before</u> sending specimens<br>
</font></b></li></ul>
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<p><b>Avoid</b> issuing/adding/sending <b>Commercial Invoices</b> - this implies you are sending commercial goods that are traded as samples (which will be taxed)</p>
<p>Avoid issuing/adding/sending Manufactorer's Declarations - this implies you are a commercial manufacturer and your shipment contains manufactured (commercial) goods (that are or can be traded)
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<p>In Principle nothing new - All those following NHCOll closely or that have participated at the SPNHC/CETAF/DNFS Shipping Workshops should be familiar.<br>
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<p>With best wishes</p>
<p>Dirk<br>
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<p>Further information can be found here:</p>
<p>The EU: <a href="https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/customs-4/customs-security/import-control-system-2-ics2-0_en" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
link</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.fedex.com/en-us/regulatory-news/ics2.html" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.fedex.com/en-us/regulatory-news/ics2.html</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.ups.com/de/en/supplychain/insights/news-and-market-updates/import-control-system-2.page" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.ups.com/de/en/supplychain/insights/news-and-market-updates/import-control-system-2.page</a>?</p>
<p>(no the most useful compilation - note that Northern Ireland is covered but not mentioned on the DHL Express website)<br>
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<p><a href="https://mydhl.express.dhl/us/en/help-and-support/customs-clearance-advice/customs-regulatory-updates/europe.html" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://mydhl.express.dhl/us/en/help-and-support/customs-clearance-advice/customs-regulatory-updates/europe.html</a><br>
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