EMARS II

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EMARS II
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Customs

• One of a number of horizontal issues running
  throughout project
• How to address customs related issues within
  EMARS II?

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Background

• Over 70 of products notified under RAPEX come
  from outside the EEA

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EU Regulation and initiatives

• New Legislative Framework strengthens customs
  co-operation and replaces Regulation 339/93
• Baltic Sea Co-operation
• Preventing Imports of Dangerous Products
  Saalfelden Conference

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Saalfelden Conference

• A Customs-Market Surveillance Co-operative
  Network
• Improving Risk Management and sharing experience
• Establishing working group of customs and market
  surveillance experts to implement recommendations
  from conference

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A Customs-Market Surveillance Network

• Create a contact list of Customs and Market
  Surveillance experts.
• Produce guidelines to foster closer co-operation
  and best practices between Customs and Market
  Surveillance authorities.
• Ensure Community level response mechanisms are
  able to provide the relevant rapid information to
  the appropriate authorities.

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Improving risk management and sharing experience

• Customs to provide details of the data elements
  they need to target high risk consignments.
• Initiate a pilot project, e.g.

• establish a list of the top 5 goods or sectors
  for increased joint action or controls
• provide targeting information for these goods or
  sectors
• joint implementation of the targeting information
  in the Member States
• feedback to report on the usefulness of the
  activity.

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Improving risk management and sharing experience

• Create a Community risk profile (Common Priority
  Control Area) for further application in all
  Member States ?
• Indicative check-lists
• Encourage joint training at the national and
  local level.
• In cases of serious risk where dangerous products
  are re-exported, customs should be notified and a
  suitable RIF issued.

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Case Study Lighters Joint Action

• 70 of all lighters are imported to EU
• Customs very active

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Case Study Lighters Joint Action

• Joint meeting customs-market surveillance
• Agenda (extract)

• Introduction to the first interim report
• Update of the inventory of novelty lighters
• From Member State to Member State
• All participants are invited to bring practical
  problems from their work, ideas on how to solve
  them as well as best practices in market
  surveillance, border control, cooperation between
  customs and market surveillance, cross-border
  cooperation, exchange of information, etc.

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How to address customs issues in EMARS II

• Collect data on national market surveillance
  activities carried out in co-operation with
  customs
• Observe best practice from the Baltic Sea Project
• Examine use of new technology for screening
  purposes e.g. XRF
• Include Customs in Knowledge Base
• Address co-operation with Customs in specific
  joint actions