HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Frequency of reporting of CSMs
Carriers shall transmit complete CSMs generated, collected or maintained in the carrier's electronic records to the CSM directory no later than 24 hours after the CSM is entered into the carrier's electronic records.
Transmission of historic CSMs pursuant to Article 18a(5) of Regulation (EC) No 515/97 shall be done within 24 hours after the generation or collection of the first CSM in the carrier's electronic records establishing that the container is destined to be brought into the customs territory of the Union.
Article 2
Format of the data in the CSMs
Carriers shall report CSMs in accordance with the ANSI ASC X12 or UN/Edifact standards.
Article 3
Method of transmission of CSMs
1. Carriers shall transmit CSMs using secure shell file transfer protocol (SFTP).
Carriers shall be allowed to transmit CSMs using other methods provided that these guarantee the level of security comparable to the SFTP.
2. CSMs may be transmitted either by:
(a) selective reporting of individual CSMs as specified in Article 18a(6) of Regulation (EC) No 515/97; or
(b) transfer of all CSMs generated, collected or maintained in the carrier's electronic records without selecting individual CSMs.
Where a carrier transmits CSMs in accordance with point (b), the carrier accepts that the Commission and the Member States have access to and use those data in accordance with the conditions set out in Regulation (EC) No 515/97.
Article 4
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply as of 1 September 2016.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 10 March 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
