Union Customs Code. Recast

This Commission staff working document accompanies the report from the Commission on progress in developing the electronic systems provided for under the Union Customs Code (UCC).

In particular, the document sets out the detailed information and progress reporting per project.

The progress of the Commission and the Member States in developing each of the electronic systems is assessed, taking particular account of the following milestones:

- the date of publication of the technical specifications for the external communication of the electronic systems;

- the period of conformance testing with economic operators;

- the expected and actual dates of deployment of the electronic systems.  

The progress with the different projects for systems is presented as follows:

- for the trans-European systems, the analysis refers to the European Commission’s activities only when central while for the systems that involve national input and even in some cases national components the analysis refers to both the Commission’s and Member States’ activities. For the national systems, only Member States’ activities are reported;

- for projects that have already been initiated and even completed, an overview of the project progress, a summary of responses, as well as a visual illustration of progress against planned milestones is provided;

- for projects that have not yet been initiated, an overview of the planned project progress is provided.