Activites

• 2003/02/18 Final act signed
• 2003/02/12 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2003/253
  • OJ L 036 12.02.2003, p. 0001-0006
• 2003/02/11 End of procedure in Parliament
• #2476
• 2002/12/16 Council Meeting
• 2002/12/16 Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading
• 2002/10/17 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(2002)0575 summary

    The Commission stated that the amendments adopted by the European Parliament are in line with the Commission's proposal. The amendments to the objectives, the setting of priorities, the deletion of the repeal of Customs 2002 and the addition of the clause on existing applications are all considered valuable additions. The evaluation provisions have been improved. The Commission accepts all the amendments. More specifically, with regard to the amendments adopted by the Parliament and also accepted by the Commission, these: - strengthen Article 1 so that it explicitly refers to the need to guarantee the effective functioning of the internal market; - simplify Article 2 and adopt the term "participating countries"; - put together two types of objectives "overall" and "specific" under a specific Article (Article 3); - propose some changes concerning the co-operation and co-ordination between laboratories; - remove reference to the Customs 2007 Committee, whilst retaining flexibility for development in accordance with the objectives of the programmes; - add a clause to Article 6 which allows the continuation of existing Community IT systems. This ensures the funding of the AFIS system until 31 December 2003; - establish indicators in the first year of the programme, thereby giving a more representative evaluation and requires the report to be made to the European Parliament and the Council, rather than simply reporting to the Customs 2007 Committee.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/index_en.htm', 'title': 'Taxation and Customs Union'}],
• 2002/09/03 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0385/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution based on the report by Janelly FOURTOU (EPP-ED, F) on the Customs 2007 programme. (Please refer to the document dated 20/06/02.) Parliament went on amend the dates for the submission of interim report by the Commission. Such reports must be submitted on 30 June 2005 and 31 December 2005.�

• 2002/06/20 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0250/2002
• #2426
• 2002/05/21 Council Meeting
  • 2426 summary

    The Council laid down a general approach, by a qualified majority, whilst noting the reservations of a number of delegations on the legal basis. To recall, the Commission proposal is based on Article 95 of the Treaty, which is the same legal basis as for the previous programmes. Yet since one of the important aims of the proposed Customs 2007 Programme is to strengthen customs cooperation, a number of delegations consider that the appropriate legal basis should be Article 135 of the Treaty. However, a joint legal basis combining both Articles 95 and 135 may be acceptable.�

• 2002/02/04 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2002/01/23 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2002)0026 summary

    PURPOSE: To propose a new "Customs 2007" programme. CONTENT: The European Commission is urging an adoption of the Customs 2007 programme based on the success of the previous, 2002 project. An interim report, published in July 2001 was both encouraging and positive, concluding that the new working structure of Customs 2002 combined with the more operational approach taken have resulted in long term benefits to the Community. Thus, an extension of the 2002 project would: - Help foster employment by contributing towards a competitive business environment with reduced compliance costs. - Prepare for enlargement and after enlargement, facilitate the full integration of new Member States allowing for an enlarged Community acting under on set of customs administration and one single administration. - Improve the protection offered by customs to the consumer and to the financial interests of the Community. Based on the findings of the Report the Commission proposes that the 2007 programme should focus on: - ensuring the continued use of previously developed computerised systems; - continuing standardisation of the present working methods; - providing practical support to the candidate countries, to which the programme should be opened; - improving actions to prevent irregularities; - supporting the creation of e-customs via the development of communication systems; - reducing compliance costs, which would contribute towards the creation of a competitive business environment; - developing training actions that would respond to the needs arising from the various programme activities. It is proposed that the programmes tools would include information exchange, management and project groups, benchmarking, exchange of officials and the setting up of workshops. The overall cost of the programme over the following five year period is estimated at EUR 133 million. In light of the many benefits past programmes have yielded and in light of the fact that an extension of the programme is considered both desirable and necessary, the Commission urges a speedy adoption of the proposed Decision.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/index_en.htm', 'title': 'Taxation and Customs Union'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2002)0026
• Debate in Council: 2426
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0250/2002
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0385/2002
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(2002)0575
• : Decision 2003/253
• : OJ L 036 12.02.2003, p. 0001-0006

History

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