Article 28

Customs controls or formalities shall be carried out in respect of the cabin and hold baggage of persons either taking an intra-Community flight, or making an intra-Community sea crossing, only where the customs legislation provides for such controls or formalities. Paragraph 1 shall apply without prejudice to either of the following: security and safety checks; checks linked to prohibitions or restrictions. The Commission shall, in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 184(2), adopt measures for the implementation of this Article, laying down the cases in which and the conditions under which customs controls and formalities may be applied to the following: the cabin and hold baggage of the following: persons taking a flight in an aircraft which comes from a non-Community airport and which, after a stopover at a Community airport, continues to another Community airport; persons taking a flight in an aircraft which stops over at a Community airport before continuing to a non-Community airport; persons using a maritime service provided by the same vessel and comprising successive legs departing from, calling at or terminating in a non-Community port; persons on board pleasure craft and tourist or business aircraft; cabin and hold baggage: arriving at a Community airport on board an aircraft coming from a non-Community airport and transferred at that Community airport to another aircraft proceeding on an intra-Community flight; loaded at a Community airport onto an aircraft proceeding on an intra-Community flight for transfer at another Community airport to an aircraft whose destination is a non-Community airport.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.