This study is about practices for the procurement of customs control equipment by customs administrations in the EU. It took place following the launch of the Customs Control Equipment Instrument (CCEI), a funding programme to bring the equipment of all Member States up to a high level, and...

Diese Studie befasst sich mit Praktiken für die Auftragsvergabe für Zollkontrollausrüstung durch die Zollverwaltungen in der EU. Sie wurde nach dem Inkrafttreten des Instruments für Zollkontrollausrüstung (CCEI) durchgeführt, einem Finanzierungsprogramm, mit dem die Ausrüstung aller...

This issue paper aims to explore what common European data spaces are and how could they help in the context of regulatory reporting: as facilitators of data pooling, discoverability and sharing, common European data spaces could play a beneficial role in supporting the streamlining of the...

The Customs 2020 programme, governed by Regulation (EU) No 1294/2013, is the EU's on-going cooperation programme in the field of customs. It runs from 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2020 and enables national customs administrations to cooperate and exchange information and expertise....

The EU's responsibility in the area of excise duties is established in Article 113 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union1: "the Council shall adopt provisions for the harmonisation of legislation concerning turnover taxes, excise duties and other forms of indirect taxation to...

This study is an evaluation of the Customs 2013 programme, an EU expenditure programme that supported national customs administrations through collaboration fora and common IT systems. The programme ran from 2008-2013. The evaluation starts with the premise that the programme is intimately...

The purpose of this Study is to contribute to the Impact Assessment of a possible revision of Council Directive 1992/83/EEC on the harmonisation of the structure of excise duty on alcohol and alcoholic beverages. The Study includes a baseline assessment of a series of issues emerged from the...