MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE SECIPRO meeting, Bucharest 25 SEPTEMBER 2006

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MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE SECIPRO meeting,
Bucharest 25 SEPTEMBER 2006
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European Customs in a Changing World Conference
27 of June 2006 Brussels
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MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE

• ? WHY MODERNISE ?
• /REAZONS /
• ? WHAT PURPUSES TO MODERNISE? /REZULTS /
• ? HOW MODERNISE?
• /PROPOSALS /

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MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE WHY?

• The present Community Customs Code, Council
  Regulation (EEC) No. 2913/92 is out of date
• The Code has been repeatedly and substantially
  amended since its introduction
• No general revision has been made of the present
  Code since it was adopted 1992

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MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE WHY?

• Communication from the Commission on a simple and
  paperless environment for customs and trade
• Community's trade facilitation agenda in the
  context of the Doha Development Agenda
• Amendment to the International Convention on the
  simplification and harmonization of customs
  procedures

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MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE WHY?

• Current customs legislation and processes are
  generally complicated
• Customs procedures are based on paper
  declarations
• There is still no obligation to use computerized
  systems

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MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE WHY?

• ! Customs legislation should reflect the new
  economic reality and the new role and mission of
  customs
• ! There is a need for complete replacement by a
• modernized Community Customs Code

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MODERNISING CUSTOMS CODE

• Progressive versions of the draft modernized
  Customs Code have been discussed with
• Member States
• Customs administrations in the Customs Code
  Committee
• European trade federations, in Trade Contact
  Group meetings, since May 2004
• on the Internet during the summer of 2004

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WHAT PURPUSES TO MODERNISE? dual objective

• Facilitating business
• Facilitation of legitimate trade

• Providing for the proper levels of customs
  control
• Fight against fraud

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WHAT PURPUSES TO MODERNISE?

• simplify legislation and administration
  procedures both from the point of view of customs
  authorities and traders
• to promote further the uniform application of
  customs legislation
• to ensure the basis for efficient and simple
  clearance procedures
• to ensure an effective decision-making process
  for the adoption of implementing provisions,
  guidelines and explanatory notes

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WHAT PURPUSES TO MODERNISE?

• to introduce a centralized customs clearance
  arrangement
• to facilitate communications between traders and
  customs
• to facilitate business, save money and time in
  business transactions with customs
• to increase the competitiveness of companies
  doing business in Europe

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WHAT PURPUSES TO MODERNISE?

• to introduce an electronic, paper-free customs
  environment
• to make Member States' electronic customs systems
  compatible with each other
• to introduce EU-wide electronic risk analysis
• faster and better exchange of information between
  European customs authorities
• to improve information exchange between frontier
  control authorities

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WHAT PURPUSES TO MODERNISE?

• to ensure security and safety at the external
  borders of the Community
• to minimize the occurrence of risk to the
  Community, its citizens and its trading partners

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WHAT PURPUSES TO MODERNISE?

• better coherence with other Community policies
• - indirect taxation
• agricultural
• commercial
• environmental
• health
• consumer protection policy

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HOW MODERNISE ? Replacement by a modernized
Community Customs Code and its implementing
provisions together with the relevant Regulations

• - Council Regulation (EEC) No 918/83 of 28 March
  1983 setting up a Community system of reliefs
  from customs duties,
• Council Regulation (EEC) No 3925/91 of 19
  December 1991 concerning the elimination of
  controls and formalities applicable to the cabin
  and hold baggage of persons taking an
  intra-Community flight and the baggage of persons
  making an intra-Community sea crossing,

• Council Regulation (EC) No 82/2001 of 5
  December 2000 concerning the definition of the
  concept of "originating products" and methods of
  administrative co-operation in trade between the
  customs territory of the Community and Ceuta and
  Melilla, Council Regulation (EC) No 1207/2001
  of 11 June 2001 on procedures to facilitate the
  issue of movement certificates EUR.1, the
  making-out of invoice declarations and forms
  EUR.2 and the issue of certain approved exporter
  authorizations under the provisions governing
  preferential trade between the European Community
  and certain countries.

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• fewer provisions and simpler rules
• provide for more coherent terminology

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• provide for radical reform of customs import and
  export procedures
• to reduce their number
• to provide common and simple rules for the
  special procedures (transit, storage, specific
  use and processing)
• to provide a small set of rules for each category
  of special procedure

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• extend the use of single authorization
• use of a single guarantee for all categories of
  special procedures
• to avoid errors and to reduce the number of
  post-release recoveries and repayments

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• simple, rapid and standard customs procedures and
  processes
• use of simplified declarations
• providing for only one type of simplified
  declaration

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• favors the lodging, registering and checking of
  the customs declaration prior to the arrival of
  the goods
• dissociation of the place where the declaration
  is lodged from the place where the goods are
  physically located
• to provide for centralized clearance at the place
  where the economic operator is established

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• to establish the legal principle that electronic
  declarations becoming compulsory, and paper-based
  declarations becoming the exception
• IT systems for customs operations offer, in each
  Member State, the same facilities to economic
  operators
• common risk management framework and an
  electronic system for its implementation as a
  bases for harmonized application of customs
  controls

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• authorized economic operator
• single window
• one stop shop

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HOW MODERNISE ?

• to ensure an appropriate level of effective,
  dissuasive and proportionate sanctions throughout
  the Internal Market

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ENTRY IN TO FORCE

• WHOLE PAKAGE to be applicable by 2009

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