EU 2320

The legal requirements demand the permission of so called “Regulated Agents” (RA; these are freight forwarders, but may also be airlines, handling agents and transport enterprises) as well as the registration of Known Consignors.

Our enterprise is already certified as RA from the LBA and has taken over the associated obligations. Among other things this includes the appointment of security advisors, the implementation of an airfreight security plan and the protection of cargo from unauthorized interference, as far as it is in our custody. That means that the entire process must take place under security-relevant premises. Apart from the monitoring of the process chain we have to cope with an increased expenditure by random controls, employee training courses etc. for the RA.

LBA’s requirements force us as an RA also to register respectively accept our customers as so called Known Shippers. Therefore it is unfortunately insufficient to refer to our long persisting and good business relations with you. The new air security requirements rather obligate us to require from our customers the attached „Security Declaration of the Known Consignor - version may 2009 Rev. 01” as imposed by the LBA.

If this declaration is presented, we as RA may assume that the circumstances declared therein are given and therefore are able to treat your shipments as "known cargo". This requires - apart from random controls - as a rule no additional technical inspections, so that additional time delays may regularly not occur.

Consignments from unknown shippers (means without a signed security declaration) however must be submitted compulsory security checks in accordance with the definitions of the LBA (x-ray examination, decompression chamber, security storage etc.). Please consider that in this case additional time delays with the loading of the consignment may be inevitable and also costs will result, which we must charge accordingly.