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eFTI compliance

In July 2027, paper stops being enough.

Regulation EU 2020/1056 requires competent authorities to accept electronic freight transport information. If your consignment notes are still paper-only, the readiness work starts now.

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Until 1 July 2027.

Who it affects

Anyone who presents transport information to an EU authority — the carrier at the border, the forwarder filing on your behalf, and the exporter whose data sits behind both. The regulation obliges authorities to accept electronic data; in practice that makes electronic the default and paper the exception.

It does not oblige you to go electronic. It removes your counterparty's excuse for refusing it.

How to get ready

  1. 01Find out which documents your lane currently moves on paper — most TR→EU road shipments run on a paper CMR.
  2. 02Ask your carrier and your forwarder whether they can receive an eFTI dataset today, and in what format.
  3. 03Start generating the electronic version in parallel with the paper one, so the data is already structured.
  4. 04Keep the paper copy until your counterparties confirm electronic acceptance. The regulation binds authorities, not your carrier.

The four document types

  • CMR

    Road carriage

    The road consignment note. The most common document on the TR→EU corridor, and still mostly paper.

  • Bill of Lading

    Sea carriage

    Title document for sea freight. Electronic B/L adoption is furthest along of the four.

  • Air Waybill

    Air carriage

    Already largely electronic through IATA e-AWB; eFTI aligns it with the EU dataset.

  • CIM

    Rail carriage

    Rail consignment note, used on block trains via Köseköy and Duisburg.

ALLICUX generates all four as eFTI datasets. The output is a draft — it does not replace authority approval or a carrier signature, and the document number is assigned by the authority, not by us.