

There is no general and fundamental obligation to apply for an EORI number for economic operators who are not based in the customs territory of the Union. The application via any of the forms 0870 requires a legally binding signature and needs to be sent together with the necessary documents by e-mail (as PDF-file), by letter or by fax to the GZD - DO Dresden - Stammdatenmanagement. For private individuals and for legally dependent branch offices please use the special forms 0870c_en (private_individuals) and 0870b_en (Branch number) respectively. Form 0870Īlternatively you can use form 0870a_en (EORI number). Furthermore you can always check the status of your application using the process summary of the Customs Portal. After verification of your data by customs you receive an automatic confirmation message in your in-box integrated in the Customs Portal as well as a message to the e-mail address connected to your account – this saves time and effort. You gain access to the EORI - administration utilizing your user account where you can apply for a new EORI or you can change the EORI relevant participant’s data of an existing EORI at any time. A change of those data is possible only by updating your ELSTER-certificate.

Those data contained in the ELSTER-certificate are also part of your EORI general master data.

From that day on you can create the necessary user account for the Customs Portal.įor a secure electronic identification you only need an ELSTER-certificate issued for your company or for you as private individual (Please make sure that the company’s or person’s data contained in the certificate are up-to-date. Customs Portal (Portal for citizens and business customers)īeginning on 1 October 2019 you can request an EORI or change the recorded data via the Customs Portal without change in format.

The online operator request ( Internetbeteiligtenantrag - IBA) that was provided so far is not available after 16 September 2019.
