Customs & Border Services Agency evidence and source custody

CUScommissionUnion-wide competence

Purpose and competence

Customs & Border Services Agency evidence and source custody is maintained for Customs & Border Services Agency. Its scope follows the office’s mandate: Clears cargo, passengers and controlled goods at ports and jurisdictional gateways.

A laboratory's sealed sample arrives through an unexpected port. The gateway preserves the original custody chain, confirms the receiving quarantine scope and asks Planetary Protection Authority for the relevant containment finding. A route change may require a revised handoff, but is not a reason to open the sample or release it as ordinary freight

Record specification

Record identifier: CUS/R2
Responsible custodian: Customs & Border Services Agency
Source evidence: Cargo manifest, custody chain, declared hazards and gateway
Decision output: Annual service plan; public decisions; performance and expenditure report.
Publication status: Draft record specification / no signed decision
Review route: Union Ombudsman / Union Court of Justice

Custodian and access

Customs & Border Services Agency receiving secretariat → · Public records access procedure

Source catalogue for Customs & Border Services Agency

Source 1: Cargo manifest, custody chain, declared hazards and gateway
Receiving purpose: Clearance receipt

Access to this record

Customs & Border Services Agency receiving secretariat / contact · Public records procedure · Common custody and accessible-format rules