Recital 18

(18) In order to avoid putting an unnecessary burden on Member State’s competent authorities and judicial systems in enforcing this Regulation, a shipment should not be considered illegal where only minor clerical errors occur in the notification or movement document, or in the document resulting from the completion of the form set out in Annex VII (‘Annex VII document’), such as typographical errors in the information provided when filling out the notification or movement documents or Annex VII documents or omission of part of the contact details for one of the persons involved in the shipment. However, such exceptions to the definition of what constitutes an illegal shipment should be strictly limited to mistakes of a minor clerical nature which occur exceptionally, do not significantly alter the substance of those documents and do not affect the achievement of the objectives of this Regulation.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-03 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.