Filling out the SAD box 37 'Procedure'

Customs declaration is defined as an act whereby a person indicates a wish to place goods under a given customs procedure. The data you need to provide to customs depends on the customs procedure you choose. Therefore, it is appropriate to start analysing the completion of the declaration from the customs procedure. This is the data element ‘1/1 Procedure’ of the electronic declaration or box 37 'Procedure' of the paper-based declaration, that is, the Single Administrative Document (SAD). In the future, the data element ‘1/1 Procedure’ will be replaced by two ten-digit data element codes: ‘1109001000 Requested procedure’ and ‘1109002000 Previous procedure’.