Furthermore, significant volumes of natural gas could also enter the Union under a transit procedure. Since the strict monitoring rules for gas imports such as the prior authorisation do not apply to gas crossing the Union under a transit procedure or being stored under customs warehousing rules, it is appropriate to provide for specific safeguards in the form of a transit monitoring regime, which enables customs authorities to monitor gas flows under a transit procedure in order to ensure that natural gas which crosses the Union under a transit procedure is not ultimately entering into free circulation in the Union. Where operators store gas in temporary storage or under a transit or customs warehousing procedure under the Union Customs Code, Member States should have appropriate monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in place to ensure that the use of Union storage by third countries does not pose any risk to national or regional security of supply and the fulfilment of storage obligations, and provide relevant information to the Commission.
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