Article 1 
By way of derogation from Article 6(1) of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, the customs authorities of Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Finland may allow their postal operators to lodge entry summary declarations for goods in postal consignments by using means for the exchange and storage of information other than electronic data-processing techniques, provided that all of the following conditions are met: (a) no electronic advance data were communicated for those goods by a postal operator who is established outside the customs territory of the Union and provides international services governed by the Universal Postal Union Convention; (b) the volume of the postal consignments concerned exceeded 15 % of the total number of postal consignments received during the month preceding the date of application of this Decision; (c) when the Member State concerned allows the use of means other than electronic data-processing techniques as provided for above, the national postal operator does not yet have the technical capacity to re-use and communicate to the Import Control System (‘ICS2’) the data collected for the purpose of the customs declaration for release for free circulation.
Article 2 
Customs authorities of Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Finland shall notify the Commission within 1 month from the date of notification of this Decision of the progress made from the date of application of this Decision by their national postal operators to provide entry summary declaration data for goods in postal consignments to the customs authorities by using ICS2.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Lithuania, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Finland. It shall apply from 1 October 2021 until 30 June 2022.