Article 143 › 1

Member States shall exempt the following transactions: (a) the final importation of goods of which the supply by a taxable person would in all circumstances be exempt within their respective territory; (b) the final importation of goods governed by Council Directives 69/169/EEC ( 4 ), 83/181/EEC ( 5 ) and 2006/79/EC ( 6 ); (c) the final importation of goods, in free circulation from a third territory forming part of the Community customs territory, which would be entitled to exemption under point (b) if they had been imported within the meaning of the first paragraph of Article 30; (ca) the importation of goods where the VAT is to be declared under the special scheme in Chapter 6, Section 4, of Title XII and where, at the latest upon lodging of the import declaration, the individual VAT identification number for the application of the special scheme of the supplier or of the intermediary acting on his behalf allocated under Article 369q has been provided to the competent customs office in the Member State of importation; (d) the importation of goods dispatched or transported from a third territory or a third country into a Member State other than that in which the dispatch or transport of the goods ends, where the supply of such goods by the importer designated or recognised under Article 201 as liable for payment of VAT is exempt under Article 138; (e) the reimportation, by the person who exported them, of goods in the state in which they were exported, where those goods are exempt from customs duties; (f) the importation, under diplomatic and consular arrangements, of goods which are exempt from customs duties; (fa) the importation of goods by the European Community, the European Atomic Energy Community, the European Central Bank or the European Investment Bank, or by the bodies set up by the Communities to which the Protocol of 8 April 1965 on the privileges and immunities of the European Communities applies, within the limits and under the conditions of that Protocol and the agreements for its implementation or the headquarters agreements, in so far as it does not lead to distortion of competition; (fb) the importation of goods by the Commission or by an agency or a body established under Union law where the Commission or such an agency or body imports those goods in the execution of tasks conferred on it by Union law in order to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, except where the goods imported are used, either immediately or at a later date, for the purposes of onward supplies for consideration by the Commission or such an agency or body; (g) the importation of goods by international bodies, other than those referred to in point (fa), recognised as such by the public authorities of the host Member State, or by members of such bodies, within the limits and under the conditions laid down by the international conventions establishing the bodies or by headquarters agreements; (ga) the importation of goods into Member States by the armed forces of other Member States for the use of those forces, or of the civilian staff accompanying them, or for supplying their messes or canteens when such forces take part in a defence effort carried out for the implementation of a Union activity under the common security and defence policy; (h) the importation of goods, into Member States party to the North Atlantic Treaty, by the armed forces of other States party to that Treaty for the use of those forces or the civilian staff accompanying them or for supplying their messes or canteens where such forces take part in the common defence effort; (i) the importation of goods by the armed forces of the United Kingdom stationed in the island of Cyprus pursuant to the Treaty of Establishment concerning the Republic of Cyprus, dated 16 August 1960, which are for the use of those forces or the civilian staff accompanying them or for supplying their messes or canteens; (j) the importation into ports, by sea fishing undertakings, of their catches, unprocessed or after undergoing preservation for marketing but before being supplied; (k) the importation of gold by central banks; (l) the importation of gas through a natural gas system or any network connected to such a system or fed in from a vessel transporting gas into a natural gas system or any upstream pipeline network, of electricity or of heat or cooling energy through heating or cooling networks;

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-05