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1. If a customs authority detects a shipment of listed goods that does not comply with the obligations set out in this Regulation, it shall take appropriate measures to ensure that those goods remain under customs supervision, and shall, within 24 hours, inform the competent authority thereof.

2. The competent authority shall decide within a period not exceeding 10 working days on the handling of those listed goods and inform the customs authority of its decision to allow the release of those goods or to take further action. For duly substantiated reasons, that period can be extended to 30 working days.

3. The customs authority shall ensure that the decision of the competent authority regarding listed goods under customs supervision is executed in accordance with the customs legislation.

4. Where the shipment of non-compliant listed goods was dispatched to or from another Member State, the competent authority of the Member State where the shipment of those goods was detected shall inform without delay, through the electronic licensing system, the competent authority of the Member State of dispatch or destination of the measures taken regarding those goods and the reasons therefor.

5. In the event of a reasonable suspicion of illicit trafficking of listed goods, the goods shall be seized or retained, and information related to the goods seized or retained during customs controls shall be shared by the customs authority without delay:

(a) with the competent authority of the Member State of the customs authority; and (b) with the competent authorities of the Member States referred to in Article 40(2) through the Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA) of Europol.

6. Seizure or retention data shall include, as soon as available, the following information:

(a) the particulars of the firearm or firearms, including the name of the manufacturer or brand, the country or place of manufacture, the serial number and the year of manufacture, if not already part of the serial number, and the model where feasible, as well as the quantities;

(b) the category or categories of the firearm or firearms, in line with Annex I;

(c) where available, information about manufacture, including the reactivation of deactivated firearms, the conversion of alarm and signal weapons, hand-made or home-made firearms, firearms manufactured by additive manufacturing, and any other information of interest;

(d) the country of origin;

(e) the country of dispatch;

(f) the country of destination;

(g) the means of transport, including as the case may be ‘container’, ‘lorry or van’, ‘personal vehicle’, ‘bus or coach’, ‘train’, ‘commercial aviation’, ‘general aviation’ or ‘postal freight and parcels’, together with, where applicable, the registration number of the means of transport used, and the nationality of the transportation company or person; and, (h) the place and type of the seizure or retention, including as the case may be ‘inland’, ‘border crossing point’, ‘land border’, ‘airport’ or ‘maritime port’.

7. Article 6(1) of this Regulation shall not prevent the customs authority from applying Article 198(2) of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013. Where the customs authority carries out the destruction of the listed goods as decided by the competent authority, the costs for destruction shall be born in accordance with Article 198(3) of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013.

8. The Commission shall, by means of an implementing act, determine the system to be used to gather yearly statistical information on the seizure and retention of listed goods. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 43(3).