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Komisija priėmė sprendimą dėl atnaujintos darbo programos, susijusios su Sąjungos muitinės kodekse numatytų elektroninių sistemų kūrimu ir diegimu, priėmimo. Apžvelkime, kokios elektroninės sistemos … jau yra įdiegtos, kokios bus įdiegtos 2020 m. ir kas planuojama iki 2025 m. vidurio.

The availability of quality and timely electronic data in a standardized and harmonized manner underpins the effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for modern border … procedures. Some of the common challenges relating to data requirements for various Customs and border clearance processes include redundancy, proprietary or bespoke standards, poor structure and definition, and fragmented or excessive data requirements.

In June 2019, experts in Customs, trade, transport, logistics and technology gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss matters relating to the various technologies used to manage flows of goods, … people and means of conveyance across borders, with a focus on both technological products, services and tools that are primarily physical and those that derive their primary value from data.

Improving workplace productivity and helping people get their jobs done efficiently is critical for Customs administrations that have to deal with an increase in the number of cross-border movements, … be it cargo or people.

The Botswana Unified Revenue Service recently implemented a new, modern IT system to manage their foreign trade operations. The migration from the old to the new system had to be smooth to ensure … business continuity. This article presents the rationale behind the migration, looks at the challenges and lessons learned from the process, and highlights the benefits that accrued to the government and the trade community.

Daugelis Europos Sąjungos valstybių narių teikia prioritetą „Vieno langelio“ principui įgyvendinant 2013 m. spalio 9 d. Europos Parlamento ir Tarybos reglamento Nr. 952/2013, kuriuo nustatomas … Sąjungos muitinės kodeksas, 47 straipsnio nuostatas. Straipsnyje apžvelgiamas šio principo taikymas tarptautiniu lygiu, Europos Sąjungoje ir Lietuvoje.

From October 1, 2019, the decision-making process of the Binding Tariff Information (BTI) is changing from paper to electronic. This is important not only for operators planning to submit new … applications, but also for those who already have valid BTI decisions on October 1st. Let's look at how to prepare for this change.

The courts of Lithuania dealt recently with several cases of administrative liability of employees at customs and temporary storage warehouses. Various issues were identified during customs audits: … storage of goods not covered by a customs authorisation, storage of goods at a place not authorised by customs, unloading of goods without customs permit. Let's look at the circumstances that led to the issues, the sanctions imposed on the responsible persons and some of the arguments presented by the parties to the court.

As Secretary General of the WCO, I am reminded, every time I visit a Customs administration and its facilities, of the various technologies used by WCO Members to improve the way they manage … the flow of goods, people and means of transport, enabling them to not only meet the challenges, but also take advantage of the opportunities, presented by the 21st century border and trade environment.

In 2016, the Cameroon government opted to impose a systematic scanning policy for containers on both their import and export. This article assesses the impact of this mechanism in the Customs … clearance procedure, focusing, in turn, on its efficiency, how it is generally perceived by private‑sector importers and stakeholders, and the difficulties created by its implementation.

In April 2019, the WCO SAFE Working Group endorsed a document providing a summary of the technical specification for the proposed unified X-ray file format for non-intrusive inspection (NII) … devices, codenamed the Unified File Format (UFF). Endorsement of the summary document by the WCO’s Policy Commission and Council in June 2019 would close Phase 2 of the UFF Development Programme.

Finnish Customs has developed an online Customs duty calculator, enabling consumers buying goods online to easily determine the amount of Customs duty and value added tax (VAT) that they more … than likely have to pay to clear their goods.

PROFILE, a project funded under the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, aims to develop and test modern data analytics tools with a view to improving Customs … risk management techniques. Ultimately, the project will facilitate and accelerate the uptake by Customs administrations of state-of-the-art data analytics, including the incorporation of new and open data sources, thereby greatly enhancing risk profiling.

The implementation of a real-time electronic cargo monitoring system to track goods transported in transit enables countries in East Africa to cut transit time, prevent cargo theft and boost … revenue collection.

Since the Fourth Industrial Revolution was mentioned in 2016 at the World Economic Forum, the impact of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the blockchain and “big data” have become … issues discussed at length worldwide. In Korea, in preparing for the future, the government formed a “Fourth Industrial Revolution Committee” in 2017, directly reporting to the President.

When electronic data interchange (EDI) was introduced half a century ago, it rang in an era of business automation. Two decades later, in the eighties, standards began to converge towards the … UN/EDIFACT standard, which set the foundations for global data exchange between businesses.

There can be no improvement in Customs performance without an upgrade of the information system. Given that the system has to be adapted to Customs, a profession that is constantly evolving in … the wake of the amendments to the legislative arsenal underpinning foreign trade, this improvement must be treated as a continuous and dynamic process.

Intelligence-based risk management is a term widely used in the Customs sector and everyone agrees that today, it is the way to go to support global trade facilitation efforts and deal with resource … constraints. One of the key measures to implement such a policy is to have a systematic and accurate intelligence database with enforcement data.

Naudodamiesi įvairiomis duomenų bazėmis, pvz. LITAR, TARIC, retai kada pagalvojame, kaip duomenys jose atsiranda. Vokietijos bendrovė Mendel tiekia duomenis eksportuotojų naudojamai patekimo … į rinką duomenų bazei, angl. Market Access Database (ateityje pavadinimas keisis į Acess2Markets). Bendrovės vadovaujanti partnerė Anna Gayk maloniai sutiko pristatyti šią duomenų bazę ir pačios bendrovės veiklą.