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AEO and EU Customs union reform: EU Parliament report 20 February 2024
As we informed on 2023 the European Commission published on the official journal the “Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the Union Customs Code and the European Union Customs Authority, and repealing Regulation (EU) No 952/2013”. About the AEO, the mentioned document (n. Document 52023PC0258 and COM/2023/258 final) provides with the following provisions. Firstly, about the “ex-post evluation/fitness checks of existing legislation” indicated into the explanotry memorandum “…the proposal undelines that “…Second, some tangible progress in improving the customs environment has been realised but does not evenly concern all the areas analysed in the evaluation. The UCC contributed to clarifying and harmonising customs…
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F-Gas, sostenibilità e compliance doganale: come fare per importare, esportare F-gas
La disciplina europea degli F-gas (gas fluorurati a effetto serra) trova una nuova sistemazione attraverso il regolamento 2024/573 del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio, del 7 febbraio 2024, sui gas fluorurati a effetto serra, che modifica la direttiva (UE) 2019/1937 e che abroga il regolamento (UE) n. 517/2014, il quale: stabilisce disposizioni in materia di contenimento, uso, recupero, riciclaggio, rigenerazione e distruzione dei gas fluorurati a effetto serra e le misure accessorie connesse, quali la certificazione e la formazione, che comprende l’uso sicuro di gas fluorurati a effetto serra e di sostanze alternative che non sono fluorurate; impone condizioni per la produzione, l’importazione, l’esportazione, l’immissione sul mercato, la successiva fornitura…
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AEO: customs and businesses data monitoring, artificial intelligence and customs obligation.
The AEO (authorized economic operator) is a customs authorization[1] able to qualify its ower as “reliable”. This is an “unicum” inside the group of customs decisions that can be granted: inwards processing relief, outward processing relief, customs warehouse, temporay admission, end use and free trade zone and the approved exporter allow the economic operator either to exercise the right to apply for a special regime or to declare the preferential origin status in the statement of origin instead by means of EUR.1 certificate. In other words, except for the authorized economic operator, the authorizations impact only on the objective element of the customs obligation (it means: the customs debt).…
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Binding value information, EU: new tool for compliance, circular economy and environmental goods
From 1 December 2027 the economic operator can apply for the BVI (binding value information) which is a custom decision on controversional and unclear aspects of the customs value of goods imported. In general, the decisions relating to binding information (origin, customs classification or value-for the future) aim at setting up a transparent and formal process whereby exporters and importers can apply for and obtain in advance, from the customs authorities, binding decisions on the customs treatment to be given to imported or exported goods. In the EU, a decision relating to binding information taken by one Member State is valid in all Member States, and binding on its holder…
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AEO, compliance, diligenza qualificata e formazione
La conoscenza della normativa doganale e degli scambi internazionali rappresenta un pilastro dell’AEO. La conoscenza normativa è un requisito dell’affidabilità dell’operatore economico: se una struttura aziendale non possiede un’adeguata consapevolezza del contesto legislativo in cui opera non può agire con diligenza qualificata nell’adempimento delle obbligazioni doganali e nel garantire l’osservanza della normativa. L’AEO è, infatti, l’unica autorizzazione doganale capace di incidere sulla qualificazione soggettiva dell’operatore economico e viene rilasciata attraverso un audit che analizza tutti gli aspetti afferenti direttamente ed indirettamente all’adempimento puntuale ed esatto dell’obbligazione doganale. Infatti, le altre autorizzazioni consentono il godimento del diritto a destinare i beni a dei regimi economici speciali oppure, dopo un’istruttoria, consentono di…
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CBAM: questions and answers from EU Commission
EU Commission on 23 January 2024 updated its “ Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Questions and Answers” and checks the following points: General topics about the CBAM; Reporting aspects, responsabilities, procedures and general issues related; The transitional registry; Methodology for calculationg embedded emission in CBAM goods (cement,fertilizer, electricity, hydrogen, iron, steel, aluminum/steel) Customs and CBAM. Definitve period. For what is concerning, the customs implications of CBAM, the “ Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Questions and Answers” provides with the following answers: QUESTION: Can an importer use different customs representatives for the customs declaration and the CBAM reporting? As regards the reporting requirements applicable during the transitional period, the CBAM Regulation…
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Italian plastic tax postponed to 1 july 2024
The Italian law badget for 2024 entered into force on 1.1.2024 in the article n.1 paragraph n.44 postponed the entry into force of the plastic tax to 1.7.2024. The taxable products are the items that consist partially or completely of organic polymers of synthetic origin. In addition, such products that serve to enclose, protect or supply goods or foodstuffs and are not intended for reuse. The taxable entities are: a) importer; b) purcheser in Italy of goods manufactured into the EU and sold from one of the member states; c) producer. Finally, it is interesting to add that: the legislative goal is to promote the reduction in the production and…
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Ravvedimento operoso, principio di proporzionalità e autotutela: considerazioni di compliance
L’articolo 13 del D.Lgs. n.472 del 18 dicembre 1997 (Disposizioni generali in materia di sanzioni amministrative per le violazioni di norme tributarie) prevede l’istituto del ravvedimento operoso che consente al contribuente (per tributi di cui è competente l’Agenzia delle Entrate) e l’operatore economico (agenzia delle Dogane e Monopoli) inadempiente di corrispondere una parte della sanzione calcolata rispetto al termine entro cui effettua il versamento. Tale norma, al proprio primo comma prevede quanto segue: “…1. La sanzione è ridotta, semprechè la violazione non sia stata già constatata e comunque non siano iniziati accessi, ispezioni, verifiche o altre attività amministrative di accertamento delle quali l’autore o i soggetti solidalmente obbligati, abbiano avuto…
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Default values, CBAM, AEO and compliance
The European Commission published the guidelines on “Default values for the transitional period of the CBAM between 1 October 2023 and 31 December 2025.” By which: Recalls the legal nature of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which “…is an environmental policy instrument designed to support the EU climate ambitions of achieving a net reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of at least 55% by 2030 and of reaching climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest…”; Underlines that the default values are an average of the intensity of the emissions for each categories of commodities covered by the CBAM. Indeed, the guidance provides that “…Default values do play a specific…
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EU GSP scheme and sustainable development
The European Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) is a framework of customs rules for which, the duties on some goods are removed if imported from vulnerable developping countries. This benefit requires that: To be eligible, the goods must comply with some additional rules: direct trasport, accounting segregation, rules of origin, statement of origin with the mention of rex (registered exporter) in the invoice or other document; It is based on the regulation 978/2012. It is interesting to add that in November 2023 the application of this GSP regulation was extended until December 2027, pending the approval of a reviewed GSP regulation by the European Parliament and the Council of the…