Intra-Community Trade Declaration System / Help with online declaration

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User identifications for online declaration which are no longer required can be cancelled via fax: +49 611 75 3922.

Material codes which are no longer needed can be cancelled via fax: +49 611 75 3922.

See Intra-Community trade statistics General Guide Chapter 9 "Examples and special cases - f)".

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Changes made to name, address and similar data in the IDEV "Manage user data" menu will be accepted by the Federal Statistical Office upon completion of a manual checking procedure Hence the changes may be displayed only after some time (for more information see Chapter 7.1 and Chapter 7.4 of the general help pages).

Declarants need to change the registered VAT number and the address data in your program itself.

For questions please contact us by telephone +49 611 75 4524 or e-mail to idev-intrahandel(at)destatis.de

Any change in the VAT number shown in your advance turnover tax return should be indicated when you submit a declaration for the purposes of intra-Community trade statistics. Online declarants can notify the Federal Statistical Office of such change by adjusting their relevant address data. As an alternative, a business can register (at https://www-idev.destatis.de) as a new declarant of intra-Community trade data using the new VAT number.

File declarants must themselves adjust their VAT number and relevant address data in their program and, if necessary, order new material codes for file declaration.

For questions please contact us by telephone +49 611 75 4524 or e-mail to idev-intrahandel(at)destatis.de

Under Changes to the Commodity Classification (only in the German language) is a overview of changed commodity codes.  

Document Codes for declarations in intra-Community trade statistics

See Current version of the Country Nomenclature (only in the German language) for the External Trade Statistics.

The Combined Nomenclature (CN) is a harmonised eight-digit commodity nomenclature for foreign trade in the framework of the common trade policy and, in particular, the Common Customs Tariff, and for the statistics of Eurostat and the national statistical offices.

It was introduced by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff.

Enter the eight-digit code of the version of the Commodity Classification for Foreign Trade Statistics in force at the time, seeInformation about the Commodity Classification (only in the German language).

To look for the correct commodity code by using the Online search of commodity codes

Currently, a supplier is not legally obliged to provide his or her EU customer with information about the commodity code (for example on the invoice or the delivery note) in the context of intra-Community trade statistics.

Any party responsible for providing information must identify the appropriate commodity code on his or her own responsibility.

See Contacts

All information on Corrections, see Chapter 5 "Correction of intra-Community trade statistics".

See Current version of the Country Nomenclature (only in the German language) for the External Trade Statistics.

Enter the country where the goods were entirely obtained or produced. If two or more countries were engaged in producing the goods, the country of origin is the last country where the goods were substantially processed in economically justified terms, provided processing took place in a business equipped for that purpose and resulted in a new product or represented a major stage of production.

If the country of origin is not precisely known, the probable country of origin should be indicated. If the origin is not known at all, the Member State of consignment must instead be declared (again). Goods of German origin (eg, re-imports) may be indicated "DE".

The indication of the country of origin is mandatory from the reference month of January 2022.

See Current version of the Country Nomenclature (only in the German language) for the External Trade Statistics.

Subsequent discounts, etc., which are not linked to any movement of goods are not to be considered. However, credits granted in relation to goods returned will have to be considered.

See Intra-Community trade statistics General Guide Chapter 3.3 "Corrections" and Chapter 9.2 "Goods returned and credits".

A CSV file is a text file to store or exchange data of a simple structure. The abbreviation CSV stands for Character Separated Values or Comma Separated Values, meaning that the individual values are separated by a specific character like, for instance, a semicolon. Declaration data which are stored in the form of CSV files can be imported into the Form declaration for intra-Community trade statistics.

The Current instructions on how to complete the Intrastat forms has been replaced in 2013 by the Intra-Community trade statistics General Guide and can be downloaded here