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Accise, principio di equivalenza e lotta al climate change
La situazione geopolitica internazionale (Iran, Ucraina, Libia USA e Russia) e la necessità di combattere il cambiamento climatico e i disastri ambientali a quest’ultimo legati impongono la necessità di sfruttare fonti energetiche alternative e sostenibili che, in termini di accisa, sono combustibili e carburanti di origine vegetale, animale oppure da rifiuti. Molto spesso si tratta di prodotti energetici non definiti da testo unico delle accise (TUA o decreto legislativo 504 del 1995) che devono essere trattati, ad ogni modo, in osservanza del principio dell’equivalenza in virtù del quale la tassazione (ai fini delle accise) si basa sull’effettiva destinazione d’uso o utilizzazione del prodotto, piuttosto che sulla sua mera composizione chimica…
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Biocarburanti, carburanti sintetici: il futuro del green deal europeo? Speranze per un trattamento fiscale incentivante!
La Presidente Von Der Leyen: si ai biocarburanti (come l’HVO) e carburanti sintetici per ridurre le emissioni. La Commissione UE rivedrà una serie di regolamenti in materia di emissioni degli autoveicoli e conferma, in questo modo, l’adozione di un approccio basato sulla flessibilità per rivedere il piano di sviluppo green dell’UE. Per dogana sostenibile è molto importante comprendere come i biocarburanti e i carburanti sintetici verranno disciplinati ai fini delle accise. Infatti, vale la pena sottolineare che i biocarburanti di ultima generazione potrebbero avere un importante ruolo nello smaltimento di sostanze che rappresentano rifiuti; si pensi ad esempio l’olio da frittura, tutta una serie di scarti alimentari o sostanze che,…
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Customs bulletin n.7/2025: normativa doganale, accise, economia circolare, sostenibilità ed energie rinnovabili
Il customs bulletin n.7 di Dogana Sostenibile segnala i provvedimenti normativi pubblicati tra il 24 e il 28 febbraio 2025 in Italia, UE e altri paesi europei. DOGANE & ACCISE -ITALIA 27 febbraio 2025 Agenzia dogane e monopoli avviso “dichiarazione di esportazione. Obbligatorietà del dato “regione di spedizione” per cui “Con riferimento al precedente avviso del 14 febbraio 2025, con il quale si informava circa la rilevanza a fini statistici dell’informazione relativa alla Regione di spedizione del data element 16 10 000 000 nell’ambito delle dichiarazioni di esportazione e si dava notizia dell’avvio delle attività volte a renderne vincolante la compilazione nei messaggi B, si comunica che essa diverrà obbligatoria…
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AEO, green policies, climate change and compliance
The AEO status is an accidental and non-mandatory element of the customs obligation. This is given by the authorization which is the unique customs decision able to “defining and qualifying” its owner. Indeed, in this way, the economic operator becomes reliable within the context of a participatory cooperation relationship with the customs administration. The AEO authorization is an administrative deed released by the national customs entity/bodies in accordance with the EU regulations. This is valid throughout the EU customs territory and, if a mutual recognition agreement is valid, also with third countries; furthermore, despite being regulated in customs regulatory acts, it is important to highlight that it constitutes an authorization…
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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…
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2024 a New Year of customs challenges
The 2023 has been an year very rich in customs news which will impat on the custom operations and compliance. We would list the following topics already published in our website: CBAM carbon border adjustments mechanism for which it is required to: 1) take into account HS codes;2) supply chain management; 3) special regimes; 4) made in/non-preferential origin; 5) customs value; The European regulantion on f-gases import; The due diligence on some goods (cattle,cocoa,palm oil, rubber, soya, wood,coffee) with specific focus on “deforestation and forest degradation”; The ecodesign, recycle and second life for batteries manufactured and imported into the EU; The free trade agreement with the New Zealand; The free…
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EAC, Kenya and EU: Economic Partnership Agreement with a specific focus on sustainable development
On 8 December 2023, Eu Commission published the draft of the “Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union, of the one part, and the Republic of Kenya, Member of the East African Community, of the other part” by means of the interinstitutional Files 2023/0337 (NLE) and 2023/0338 (NLE). This agreement will cover the following topics: (a) general provisions; (b) trade in goods; (c) fisheries; (d) agriculture; (e) economic and development cooperation; (f) institutional provisions; (g) dispute avoidance and settlement; (h) general exceptions; (i) general and final provisions; and (j) Annexes, Protocols and Joint Statements. Before going deeper with the short check of the available documents, it is useful to recall…
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EU-Chile modernized free trade agreement
On 4 December 2023, the European Council adopted: Advanced Framework Agreement (AFA) about: health, the environment, climate change, ocean governance, energy, tax, education and culture, labour, employment and social affairs, science and technology and transport; interim Trade Agreement (iTA) on raw materials and clean fuel such as lithium, copper and hydrogen, which are crucial for the transition to the green economy. Both the agreements with Chile constitute an updated version of the EU-Chile Association Agreement currently in place. Nadia Calviño declared: “…The EU-Chile Trade Agreement will reinforce the EU’s open strategic autonomy and economic security, strengthening the resilience of supply chains and diversifying imports of key inputs for the green…
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EU, New Zealand, Trade and climate change
EU and New Zealand recognise, in their free trade agreement which has to enter into force, the importance of taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, and the role of trade in pursuing this objective, consistent with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change done at New York on 9 May 1992 “UNFCCC”), the purpose and goals of the Paris Agreement, and with other MEAs and multilateral instruments in the area of climate change (called also climate crisis). From a practical point o view the EU and New Zealand are committed to: promote the mutual supportiveness of trade and climate policies and measures,; facilitate the removal…
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New GSP framework, sustainable development and good governance: a check of the principles.
The ProposalCOM(2021)579 will set up a new framework of the European generalized system of preference which is: part of EU common commercial policy (unilateral preferential origin treatment for goods originating from the eligibile countries): sustainable development and good goverance; consistent with with the analysis and perspective of the Commission Communication Trade Policy Review: An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy of 18 February 2021; consistent with EU green agenda and UN suistainable goals; The key stone of GSP is the “conditionality”: a country should not benefit from preferential trade arrangements if it is acting in a way that is contrary to international standards and principles and thereby also to its…