Ref : HAFFA News 24 (2011-2012)
Date : 14 September 2011
CARRIER LIAISON GROUP (CLG)
·
EU
Advanced Manifest Regulation – Entry Summary Declaration (ENS)
CLG shared the following latest information regarding the EU ENS
regulation for Members’ reference that is self-explanatory.
(1)
IATA has issued an advisory to
the industry regarding postal code requirement for the EU ENS. The European
Commission indicated (unofficially) that a dash (-) can be used in countries
where shippers/freight forwarders have not been issued postal codes. IATA has
been in contact with the Universal Postal Union (UPU) who has provided the
following documents,
Ø
List of all
countries that use postal codes [Download]
Ø
List of
countries that do not have postal codes [Download]
The UPU website also provides
a free postcode look-up to access the web service provided by the posts of many
countries to verify postal codes.
http://www.upu.int/en/resources/postcodes/looking-up-a-postcode/list-of-sites-by-country.html
(2)
IATA provided a document of ENS frequently asked questions [Download].
(3)
ENS is mandatory for all goods going into the EU including
transit.
(4)
The website for the HS Codes information is as follows: