Article 23 — Customs controls relating to the digital product passport

1. Toys entering the Union market shall be subject to verifications and other measures laid down in this Article. This Article is without prejudice to any other Union law, in particular Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 and Chapter VII of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. 2. Any person intending to place a toy under the customs procedure release for free circulation shall provide or make available to customs authorities the unique registration identifier as referred to in Article 22(2). 3. Customs authorities may release a toy for free circulation only after having verified, as a minimum, that the unique registration identifier and the commodity code provided or made available to them correspond to the data stored in the registry. The release for free circulation shall not be deemed to be proof of compliance with this Regulation or other Union law. 4. The verification referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article shall take place electronically and automatically via the interconnection between the registry and EU CSW-CERTEX referred to in Article 15(3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781. That verification shall take place as from the moment that interconnection is operational or from the date of application of this Regulation, whichever is later. 5. The Commission and the customs authorities may retrieve and use the data on toys included in the digital product passport and in the registry for carrying out their duties pursuant to Union law, including risk management, customs controls and release for free circulation in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 952/2013. 6. The verifications and other measures laid down in this Article shall be carried out on the basis of the list of commodity codes and product descriptions set out in Annex VII.