Border Inspection Services
State Administration Services for customs and health inspections of cargo goods.
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport has authorised facilities for customs and health checks of cargo goods, where official checks of documents and identities are carried out, in addition to physical inspections and, in general, all the necessary customs formalities for cargo goods bound for or coming from third countries.
BIS are the State Administration services assigned to controlling and inspecting goods in order to ensure they meet with health, hygiene, quality and safety standards for foreign trade.
Border Inspection Services
- Contact from Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 2:00pm:
- Foreign health:
- Telephone: (+34) 93 520 92 30 / 35.
- Email: sanidad_exterior.barcelona@correo.gob.es
- Animal health:
- Telephone: (+34) 93 520 92 20 / 36.
- Email: sanimal.barcelona@correo.gob.es
- Vegetal health:
- Telephone: (+34) 93 520 92 20 / 21.
- Email: svegetal.barcelona@correo.gob.es
- Contact from Monday to Friday from 2:00pm to 10:00pm and weekends and holidays from 9:00am to 10:00pm:
- Telephone: (+34) 93 520 90 00.
Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT)
Contact details at the airport:
- Public opening times:
- Travellers T1: 24 hours.
- Travellers T2: 08:30-18:30.
- Air freight commercial (Cargopark building): 08:00-19:00
- Air freight individual (T2A): 08:30-18:00
- Telephone:
- Travellers T1: 932 596 433. Fax: 932 971 753
- Travellers T2: 932 984 685. Fax: 934 786 688
- Air freight: 933 740 852. Fax: 933 740 887
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Tax Agency website: Customs and Special Duties.
- Opening times Spanish customs: Public opening times.
Goods customs border checkpoint
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport is authorised to act as a:
BIP - Border Inspection Post by the European Commission to inspect live animals, products for animal consumption and products of animal origin both for human consumption and not for human consumption. BICs (Border Inspection Centres) are the facilities where these inspections take place.
There are 3 authorised BICs at Barcelona-El Prat Airport, in accordance with the Commission's Decision of 28 September 2009, managed by 3 operators: Iberia, Swissport and World Wide Flight Services (WFS).
PBIP - Phytosanitary Border Inspection Post authorised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food for checks and inspections to stop the entry or spread of elements harmful to vegetable and animal products.
Ports and airports where the phytosanitary products are checked
ACA - Authorised Customs Area authorised by the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare for the control of products of non-animal origin destined for human use and consumption from third countries.
DEP - Designated Entry Point authorised by the Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare for the control of certain products such as animal feed and foodstuffs of non-animal origin requiring more thorough inspection, as established in regulation 669/2009/EC.
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