Pre-notification of Article 73 Goods  
 
Goods  detailed in Article 73 of the retained Plant Health Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of 
the European Parliament of the Council on protective measures against pests of plants)  are required 
to be inspected at a minimum 1% frequency. The UK customs IT system ( Customs Handling of Import 
and Export Freight (CHIEF )/ Customs Declaration Service (CDS)) will select 1% of consignments due 
to enter Great Britain and these will be subject to phytosanit ary import checks. T he relevant 
consignees will be  automatically informed by CHIEF/CDS that they should make a pre -notification on 
PEACH  (Procedure for Electronic Application for Certificates )/IPAFFS  (Import of Products, Animals, 
Food and Feed System)  (the UK SPS imports IT system).  
 
The GB competent authorities intend to make this pre-notification via PEACH/IPAFFS a  mandatory 
requirement  within the retained Regulation (EU) 201 7/625 Official Controls  Regulation (OCR) , such 
that consignees must pre-notify on PEACH/ IPAFFS when requested to  do so  by CHIEF/CDS. This will 
be done using the power in Article 45(4) of the retained OCR .  