The EU is developing the Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS) to carry out control of transit of excise goods within the Member States. The computerized EMCS system is used for movements of excise goods under suspension and replaces the paper Administrative Accompanying Document (AAD)  by an e-AD (electronic Administrative Document). Each Member State develops its own national EMCS application, which is connected to all other countries.

 

According to the Belgian planning of the EMCS roadmap, the roll-out would be performed as follows:

1 April 2010:  

• e-ADs from other Members States to Belgium have to be discharged electronically
• submitting e-Ads from Belgium to any other Member State is possible

 1 Juli 2010:

• realization of the link between PLDA and EMCS for import and export movements

 1 january 2011:

• all movements of excise goods under suspension of excise duty shall be carried out using EMCS

Belgian Customs will postpone the deployment milestone “1 July 2010″.  Probably the date will be shifted to 31 December 2010.

Specialist software suppliers have developed solutions based on the country specific requirements which allow fully automated exchange of messages with the authorities’ systems of the different countries. Belgian Customs Authorities have also made available a free EMCS web application.

Upon request, we can assist you with your decision which solution is best for your company. Customs4trade, being an independent customs and international trade advisory company, has guided national and international companies to the EMCS web and has assisted several clients to assess excise and/or customs activities. It is our aim to realize streamlined and uniform customs/excise authorizations and procedures.  This facilitates your software decisions and can lead to substantial savings on implementation and operational costs.

Whether your company is using an EMCS software solution or the EMCS-web, in both cases the  Authorized Economic Operators and AEO-candidates have to install control measures in order to make sure that their import/export process and procedures are AEO compliant.

 If you are interested in our EMCS services, just give us a call on +32 15 46 08 46 or send an e-mail to info@customs4trade.com

The European Commission adopted today a Regulation which sets a transitional period from 1 July 2009 to 31 December 2010 during which traders will have the option of submitting electronic entry or exit summary declarations on goods before they enter or leave the EU. Unanticipated delays have occurred in the implementation process of electronic entry or exit summary declarations so that not all actors will be in a position to submit those declarations by 1 July 2009. In order to increase security in the international trade in goods, the EU has introduced in 2006 the obligation for traders to submit electronic advance information to customs authorities in order to enable them to carry out computerized risk analysis on the basis of such information before the goods are presented to customs (IP/06/1821). During the transitional period, goods not declared in advance will be submitted to risk analysis after arrival or before departure of those goods. The Regulation can be found at these web links: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/procedural_aspects/general/community_code/article_5660_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/common/legislation/legislation/customs/index_en.htm Further information on the security aspects of customs can be found at this web link: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/policy_issues/customs_security/index_en.htm Further information on the Community Customs Code and its implementing provisions can be found on this web site: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/procedural_aspects/general/community_code/index_en.htm
Source: Press notice 2 April EU Commission (Reference: MEX/09/0402)