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New Computerised Transit System
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Presentation Agenda
• Principles of the Union and Common Transit
• History
• Geographical scope
• Legal basis & Administration
• How NCTS works
• Future developments
• Information sources
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PRINCIPLES
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Principles of the Union and Common Transit
• Allow the movement of goods from one point to another
• within the same customs territory (EU)
• between the customs territories of different contracting parties (Common transit)
• Suspension of duties, charges and other commercial measures
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Principles of the Union and Common Transit
• Main features
• Electronic transit declaration
• Clear description and identification of goods
• Guarantee and Electronic guarantee management
• Transport within prescribed time limit
• Facilitations such as simplified procedures, modulation of guarantee, authorised consignor/consignee, etc.
• Balance between the economic interest of operators and the interest of customs
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Main transit regimes
• Union transit Applies in the customs territory of the EU (28 MS) + Andorra & San Marino (Customs Unions)
• Convention on a common transit procedure / SAD Convention Apply between the EU, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia
• TIR Convention More than 55 countries using the procedure (As of July 2015, the TIR Convention had 69 Contracting Parties including the European Union and its 28 Member States. However a TIR operation is possible only in the countries which have authorised guaranteeing associations (57 countries)
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HISTORY
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Paper-based transit procedure
Customs office of Departure • Declaration • Guarantee • Customs control
Customs office of Transit • Transit advice note
Customs office of Destination • Presentation (goods & documents) • Customs control • Result of control to Off. of Departure
Customs offices of Transit • Transit advice note
Customs office of Departure • Discharge • Release of Guarantee
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Problems with paper-based procedure
• Operational Problems
• Handling of documents (20M SAD/Year)
• Incorrect transit declarations
• Slowness of manual procedure
• Inefficient customs controls
• Fraud
• Falsified guarantee certificates
• Goods not presented at destination & falsified copies 5 (result of control) returned
• Falsified stamps
• Falsified declarations
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New Computerised Transit System (NCTS)
• Processing of transit declarations electronically
• First fully operational EU system - mandatory for operators
• Extension to TIR within EU – NCTS-TIR mandatory for operators (1/1/2009)
• Optional inclusion of safety/security (1/7/2009)
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GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE
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EU goods (free circulation) :
Non-EU goods:
A Customs Union with a single customs territory but national fiscal territories required an
internal facilitation : Community transit procedure
Evolution of Transit movements
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EU goods (free circulation) :
Non-EU goods:
Extension of Community transit to neighbouring countries: common transit procedure (starting 1972)
Evolution of Transit movements
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EU goods (free circulation) :
Non-EU goods:
EU Internal Market (starting from 1993)
Evolution of Transit movements
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• 35 Countries (EU 28) • 10+ million movements per year* • 30+ thousand movements per business
day * Union + Common transit
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LEGAL BASIS & ADMINISTRATION
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Legal basis
• Union Customs Code
• Delegated Act
• Implementing Act
• Transitional Act
• Common transit convention
Business process models
• Level 2: high level overview
• Level 3: business requirements
• Level 4: functional requirements
Specifications
• Functional (FTSS)
• Technical (DDNTA)
Overview
• Union and international legal basis
• Created by COM/TAXUD
• Reviewed by ECCG and TCG
• Approved by ECCG
• Created by COM/TAXUD & Member States
• Reviewed by NPMs • Reviewed by ECCG • Approved by ECCG
FTSS: Functional Transit System Specifications DDNTA: Design document for National Transit Application ECCG: Electronic Customs Coordination Group TCG: Trade Contact Group NPM: National Project Manager
References to legal text No legal references
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HOW NCTS WORKS
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Financing of the NCTS
• Common domain is financed by the Customs 2020 program
• External domain / Member State applications: financed by MS
• Non-EU members of the Transit Convention: annual contribution
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Trader at Departure
Customs office at Departure
Transit Customs office
Trader at Destination
Customs office at Destination
IE015
IE001
Control
Control
Control
Write-off & Release guarantee
IE050
IE018
IE006
IE015 Declaration IE050 Anticipated Transit Record IE001 Anticipated Arrival Record IE029 Release into transit IE007 Arrival notification
IE029
IE007
IE006 Arrival advice IE018 Destination control result IE025 Goods released from transit IE045 Write-off notification
IE025 IE045
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Main advantages of NCTS
For the Trader
• Direct electronic data exchange with customs
• Less administrative workload
• Early discharge at Office of departure (release of guarantee)
• Reduced costs
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Main advantages of NCTS
For the customs administrations
• Direct data exchange between administrations
• Better planning of human resources
• Elimination of fraudulent document manipulation
• Selective controls based on risk analysis
• Reduction in number of enquiry procedures
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• System Specifications
• Functional Transit System Specifications (FTSS)
• Design Documentation for National Transit Applications (DDNTA)
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FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
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Future developments
• Work continues to prepare interested countries to join (Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Moldova, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina)
• Update of NCTS to align with the Union Customs Code
• On-going improvement of the system
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INFORMATION SOURCES
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Information sources
• Europa TAXUD website http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/common/about/welcome/index_en.htm
• EU Customs strategy: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/policy_issues/customs_strategy/index_en.htm
• Customs transit http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/procedural_aspects/transit/index_en.htm
• Transit Movements Electronic Map http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds2/tra/transit_emap.jsp
• EC DG TAXUD youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChFPQ0GYmGjI2d251lTRTag
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