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Customs special regimes, AI, circular economy and compliance: the challenges
On 30 November 2023 the DG TAXUD published the guidance “Special procedures for MSs and Trade -Title VII UCC” number of reference TAXUD/A2/SPE/2016/001-Rev 21-EN. In this document, the EU working group, according to article 210 UCC, checks and analyzes the customs procedures with economic impact (CPEI) also called eitther “Special Procedures” or “special regimes”. The main categories are Storage which covers customs warehouse and free trade zones Specific use. In this category, the temporary admission and the end use authorization fall. Processing which means inward processing relief and outwards processing relief The common framework of these special procedures is Authorization: the authorisation which is a favourable decision with a maximum…
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Due diligence, import deforestation free goods and blockchain
The EU Regulation 2023/1115 on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation and repealing Regulation (EU) No 995/2010” has the following goals: minimising the Union’s contribution to deforestation and forest degradation worldwide, and thereby contributing to a reduction in global deforestation; reducing the Union’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and global biodiversity loss The due diligence statement requires companies to collect information, identify risks and mitigate them, organise and keep the information and evidence relating to each relevant product for a period of five years from the date of placing, making available or…