The Future of Customs in the EU 2040 report is an outcome of a year-long foresight process. Its aim is to support strategic reflection on the future of the European Union’s Customs Union, its relevance and its effectiveness in the long-term. The European Commission’s Joint Resear...
The EU’s external land border is over 13 000 km long. There are over 400 road and rail border crossing points between 16 EU Member States and 13 neighbouring non-EU countries. EU customs protect the financial interests of the European Union as well as EU citizens by ensuring that...
The European Union is implementing a new customs pre-arrival security and safety programme, underpinned by a large-scale advance cargo information system – Import Control System 2 (ICS2). ICS2 is a new IT system created to collect data about all goods entering the EU prior to the...
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In 2018 the European Union celebrated the 50th anniversary of the EU Customs Union. The Customs Union forges the 28 Member States plus Monaco and British territories into a single trading area, allowing goods to circulate freely within the area. All countries within the Customs U...
The Real-time Delphi survey method is a structured expert survey methodology used to gather opinions on different possible developments in the long-term future on a given topic. This type of surveys is a useful way to elicit, collect and synthesise the opinions of a large group o...
This report summarises the discussion that took place at the workshop on "Strengthening Competitiveness of the Internal Market by Developing the EU Customs Union and its Governance". The Union Customs Code is a key element of the ongoing actions to modernise EU customs....
Customs is holding the front line against dangerous goods, illegal traffic, fraud, terrorism and organised crime while making legitimate trade as easy as possible. ...
