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Non-EU EORI applicants are asked to identify first customs use
VID’s form requests the planned customs location and date. Its warning on unused numbers should be read with the Union Customs Code’s annulment conditions.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 28 August 2026
VID's EORI request form now asks persons registered outside the EU to justify assignment of the number by identifying when and where their goods will arrive.VID The added section applies to both legal and natural persons registered outside the Union.
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The applicant gives the customs control point number for the place where customs formalities will first be carried out, together with the day, month and year of those formalities. These details connect the registration request to the intended first customs activity, alongside the existing identity and contact information in the form.
The form also warns that an assigned EORI number will be annulled if it is not used at the stated arrival time and placeVID, citing Article 27 of the Union Customs Code. That article sets out the legal conditions for annulling a favourable customs decision: the decision was based on incorrect or incomplete information, the holder knew or should reasonably have known that, and a different decision would have been taken on correct and complete information.
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Those statutory conditions are relevant when reading the form's warning. The form's instruction to provide a planned date and location should not be treated as replacing the conditions stated in the Code for annulment of a favourable decision.Europa
A further notice on the form gives five working days after receipt of the EORI request for assignment or refusal. Cabinet Regulation No. 18 qualifies that timetable for the specified technical-functionality case: where EORI assignment is technically impossible, the five-working-day period runs after the system's functionality is restoredLikumi.
The national rules also distinguish the identifiers required from non-EU applicants. A legal person supplies its national business-register identification number; a natural person supplies the identification number of its identity document. The request identifies how the applicant wants the decision communicated, and the rules allow paper, electronic-document or EDS submission.
The legal basis is Cabinet Regulation No. 18 on registration and identification in customs matters, particularly paragraphs 5 and 9–11, and Union Customs Code Article 27.
Provide the intended first customs location and date, and assess any annulment warning against the Code’s conditions.