Excisable products: computerised intra-Community movement system

PURPOSE : to computerise the movement and surveillance of excisable products. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Decision No 1152/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on computerising the movement and surveillance of excisable products. CONTENT : the Council approved the amendments made by the Parliament at second reading on the decision on computerising the movement and surveillance of excisable products, with the Irish and United Kingdom delegations voting against and the Luxembourg delegation abstaining. The computerised system is intended to permit the electronic transmission of the accompanying document provided for in Regulation 2719/92/EEC, and the improvement of checks and to improve the functioning of the internal market, by simplifying the intra-Community movement of products under excise duty suspension arrangements, and by affording Member States the possibility of monitoring the flows in real time and of carrying out the requisite checks where necessary. The computerised system shall be made up of Community and non-Community components. The Commission shall ensure that in work on the Community components of the computerised system every attention is paid to re-using as much of the NCTS as possible and ensuring that the computerised system is compatible with, and, if technically possible, integrated into, the NCTS with the objective of creating an integrated computer system for the surveillance both of intra-Community movements of excisable goods and of movements of excisable goods and goods subject to other duties and charges coming from or going to third countries. Member States and the Commission shall establish the computerised system within 6 years of the entry into force of this Decision, that is 01/07/2009. Activities relating to the initiation of application of the computerised system shall begin not later than 01/07/2004. The financial framework for financing the computerised system is hereby set at EUR 35000000 insofar as the general budget of the European Union is concerned. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 01/07/2003. �