The decision of the Board of the EEC dated 07/28/2026 No. 97 established a new List of documents stipulated by the acts of the Universal Postal Union and accompanying international mail items that can be used as a declaration for goods. The decision comes into force on August 30, 2026.
The document defines which forms of UPU and with which mandatory information can act in three roles: transit declaration, goods declaration and passenger customs declaration. The forms used in this capacity include the CN 22 customs declaration, the CN 23 declaration, the CP 71 accompanying address, the CP 72 package form and the E1 form for shipments with the EMS logo.
At the same time, the Decision of the Customs Union Commission of 06/18/2010 No. 310 — instruction on the procedure for using postal documents as a customs declaration, which has been in force for sixteen years, becomes invalid.
The meaning of the mechanism is simple: the parcel travels across the border not with a full-fledged declaration of goods, but with a postal form, which the customs accepts as a declaration. For cross-border trade and express delivery, this is a key point. It depends on the requirements for the form whether the shipment is checked automatically or manually processed.
The update of the list coincides with other changes in the declaration: the EEC Board previously rewrote the rules for filling in the column "Information about goods" in the passenger declaration for express cargo in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
What a business should do. Postal operators and express delivery services should check the set of mandatory information in each form against the new list and update the templates by August 30. Companies that send goods by mail for export should check whether their shipments fall under the conditions of using UPU forms as a declaration for goods: this scheme has cost restrictions, export duties and prohibitions.
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