Captain Haddock wrote:'finding an Officer to process it'.
I rest my case. THIS is not 2020 between two industrialised nations.
Mm. Ah well, I said 'yer actual paperwork' because, guess what, under CT, TIR and the pan-EU export procedure, the driver presents pieces of paper for the nice customs officer to process. It's an EU external border/CT Contracting Parties sort of thing.