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2018/0123(COD) Union Customs Code: inclusion of the municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano in the customs territory of the Union; aligning with the international trade agreements signed by the EU

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead IMCO SELIMOVIC Jasenko (icon: ALDE ALDE) SCHWAB Andreas (icon: PPE PPE), KOHN Arndt (icon: S&D S&D), DALTON Daniel (icon: ECR ECR), REDA Felix (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), PRETZELL Marcus (icon: ENF ENF)
Committee Opinion INTA
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
TFEU 033, TFEU 114, TFEU 207

Events

2019/03/25
   Final act published in Official Journal
Details

PURPOSE: to make technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2019/474 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code.

CONTENT: the amendments to the EU Customs Code aim to (i) implement the fundamental objectives of enabling the Customs Union to function effectively and to implement the Common Commercial Policy, (ii) resolve a number of technical problems that have been identified in the implementation of the Code since its entry into force and (iii) harmonise the Code with international trade agreements that were not in force when it was adopted.

In concrete terms, the amendments aim in particular to:

- specify that the holder of a binding tariff information (BTI) decision may use that decision for up to six months after the decision has been revoked if the revocation results from the fact that the decision was not in conformity with customs legislation or that the conditions laid down for issuing the decision were not or no longer fulfilled;

- add temporary storage to the list of customs formalities covered by the provision that extinguishes a debt due to non-compliance in cases where there was no significant negative effect, no attempt at deception and the situation was subsequently regularised;

- add a new provision in order to provide total relief from import duty for goods that have been repaired or altered under the outward processing procedure in a country with which the Union has concluded a preferential agreement (like CETA with Canada) providing for such relief.

In addition, the Regulation amends the definition of the customs territory of the Union to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia (an Italian enclave located on the territory of Switzerland) and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano within its scope. The inclusion of these two territories in the customs territory of the Union shall apply from 1 January 2020.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 14.4.2019.

2019/03/19
   CSL - Final act signed
2019/03/19
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2019/03/13
   CSL - Draft final act
Documents
2019/02/27
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2019/02/18
   EP/CSL - Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading
2019/02/18
   CSL - Council Meeting
2019/01/31
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2019/01/31
   EP - Decision by Parliament, 1st reading
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 520 votes to 29, with 48 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code.

Parliament adopted its position at first reading in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure.

The proposal makes technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers.

The amendments introduced aim to (i) implement the basic objectives of enabling the Customs Union to function effectively and to implement the common commercial policy, (ii) solve a number of technical issues that have been identified in the implementation of the Code since its entry into force and (iii) align the Code with international trade agreements that were not in force at the time of its adoption.

In addition, the proposal amends the definition of the customs territory of the Union to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano within its scope. The inclusion of these two territories in the customs territory of the Union shall apply from 1 January 2020.

Documents
2019/01/21
   EP - Approval in committee of the text agreed at 1st reading interinstitutional negotiations
2018/12/12
   CSL - Coreper letter confirming interinstitutional agreement
2018/12/12
   EP - Text agreed during interinstitutional negotiations
Documents
2018/12/10
   EP - Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations confirmed by plenary (Rule 71)
2018/11/28
   EP - Committee decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations announced in plenary (Rule 71)
2018/11/22
   EP - Committee decision to open interinstitutional negotiations with report adopted in committee
2018/11/14
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
Details

The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection adopted the report by Jasenko SELIMOVIC (ALDE, SE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code.

The committee recommended that the European Parliament adopt its position at first reading, taking over the Commission proposal .

The proposal aims to make technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers.

The Commission proposes to amend the EU Customs Code in order to correct these technical errors and omissions, including the alignment harmonisation of the UCC with an international agreement that was not in force at the time of adoption of the Code, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

In addition, the proposal aims to respond to a request from Italy to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano in the customs territory of the Union.

Documents
2018/11/12
   EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading
2018/10/24
   EP - Committee draft report
Documents
2018/06/19
   EP - SELIMOVIC Jasenko (ALDE) appointed as rapporteur in IMCO
2018/05/28
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading
2018/05/08
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Details

PURPOSE : to make technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers.

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.

BACKGROUND: following the entry into force of the new substantial provisions of the Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council laying down Union Customs Code (UCC) in May 2016, the process of regular consultation with Member States and business has resulted in the identification of errors and technical anomalies that need to be corrected in order to ensure legal certainty and consistency.

The Commission has therefore prepared this proposal to amend the UCC with a view to correcting these technical errors and omissions, including the alignment of the UCC with an international agreement that was not in force at the time of adoption of the UCC, namely, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

The proposal also aims at addressing a request from Italy to include the municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano in the EU customs territory.

CONTENT: the proposal provides for the following amendments to the provisions of the UCC:

amend the definition of the customs territory of the Union to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano within its scope. The inclusion of these territories in the customs territory of the Union should apply from 1 January 2019; specify that the holder of a binding tariff information (BTI) decision may use that decision for up to six months after the decision has been revoked if the revocation results from the fact that the decision was not in conformity with customs legislation or that the conditions laid down for issuing the decision were not or no longer fulfilled; add temporary storage to the list of customs formalities covered by the provision that extinguishes a debt due to non-compliance in cases where there was no significant negative effect, no attempt at deception and the situation was subsequently regularised; clarify that, where customs authorities must invalidate an entry summary declaration due to the fact that the goods covered by the declaration have not been brought into the customs territory of the Union, the entry summary declaration should be invalidated without delay 200 days after the declaration was lodged rather than within 200 days as that is the period within which the goods must be brought into the customs territory of the Union; clarify that economic operators provide them with pre-arrival data concerning non-Union goods in the form of an entry summary declaration . Where an entry summary declaration has not been lodged before the arrival of the goods and the obligation to lodge it has not been waived, economic operators should submit the data normally included in entry summary declarations in their customs declarations or temporary storage declarations; clarify that, in cases where customs authorities have to invalidate a temporary storage declaration due to non-presentation of the relevant goods, the invalidation must happen once 30 days have elapsed since the declaration was lodged rather than "within" the period of 30 days; clarify that, in cases where customs authorities have to invalidate an exit summary declaration or reexport notification due to the non-export of the relevant goods, the invalidation must happen once 150 days have elapsed since the declaration or notification was lodged rather than "within" the period of 150 days; add a new provision in order to provide total relief from import duty for goods that have been repaired or altered under the outward processing procedure in a country with which the Union has concluded a preferential agreement (like CETA with Canada) providing for such relief.

Documents

Votes

A8-0368/2018 - Jasenko Selimovic - Am 1 31/01/2019 12:22:32.000 #

2019/01/31 Outcome: +: 520, 0: 48, -: 29
DE FR IT PL ES RO GB BE HU AT PT BG SE CZ NL FI LT SK DK IE HR LU LV SI MT EE CY EL
Total
75
60
61
42
43
27
56
20
17
16
18
13
15
18
22
12
9
9
8
7
7
6
6
5
5
4
4
11
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Sweden PPE

2

Finland PPE

2

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Croatia PPE

2

Luxembourg PPE

3

Estonia PPE

For (1)

1

Cyprus PPE

1
2
icon: S&D S&D
158

Netherlands S&D

For (1)

1

Lithuania S&D

1

Slovakia S&D

2

Ireland S&D

For (1)

1

Croatia S&D

For (1)

1

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

1

Latvia S&D

1

Malta S&D

2

Estonia S&D

For (1)

1

Cyprus S&D

1
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60

Germany ALDE

3

Romania ALDE

3

United Kingdom ALDE

1

Austria ALDE

For (1)

1

Portugal ALDE

1

Bulgaria ALDE

3

Sweden ALDE

2

Denmark ALDE

For (1)

1

Ireland ALDE

For (1)

1

Croatia ALDE

2

Luxembourg ALDE

For (1)

1

Latvia ALDE

1

Slovenia ALDE

For (1)

1

Estonia ALDE

2
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57

Romania ECR

2

Bulgaria ECR

2

Sweden ECR

2

Czechia ECR

2

Netherlands ECR

2
2

Lithuania ECR

1

Slovakia ECR

1

Denmark ECR

1

Croatia ECR

For (1)

1

Cyprus ECR

1
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
47

Italy Verts/ALE

For (1)

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

1

Hungary Verts/ALE

2

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

3

Netherlands Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

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1

Lithuania Verts/ALE

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1

Denmark Verts/ALE

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1

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1

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1
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32

Germany GUE/NGL

5

Italy GUE/NGL

2

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

1

Portugal GUE/NGL

For (1)

4

Sweden GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Czechia GUE/NGL

2

Netherlands GUE/NGL

For (1)

3

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Denmark GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Ireland GUE/NGL

1

Cyprus GUE/NGL

Abstain (1)

1

Greece GUE/NGL

1
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33

Germany ENF

Against (1)

1

Poland ENF

2

United Kingdom ENF

Abstain (1)

4

Belgium ENF

Abstain (1)

1

Austria ENF

3

Netherlands ENF

4
icon: NI NI
11

Germany NI

Against (1)

1

France NI

For (1)

1

Hungary NI

For (1)

1
icon: EFDD EFDD
33

Germany EFDD

For (1)

1

Poland EFDD

1

Czechia EFDD

Against (1)

1

Lithuania EFDD

For (1)

1

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  • date: 2018-11-14T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A8-2018-0368&language=EN title: A8-0368/2018 summary: The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection adopted the report by Jasenko SELIMOVIC (ALDE, SE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code. The committee recommended that the European Parliament adopt its position at first reading, taking over the Commission proposal . The proposal aims to make technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers. The Commission proposes to amend the EU Customs Code in order to correct these technical errors and omissions, including the alignment harmonisation of the UCC with an international agreement that was not in force at the time of adoption of the Code, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). In addition, the proposal aims to respond to a request from Italy to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano in the customs territory of the Union.
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  • date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=31789&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P8-TA-2019-0047 title: T8-0047/2019 summary: The European Parliament adopted by 520 votes to 29, with 48 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code. Parliament adopted its position at first reading in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure. The proposal makes technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers. The amendments introduced aim to (i) implement the basic objectives of enabling the Customs Union to function effectively and to implement the common commercial policy, (ii) solve a number of technical issues that have been identified in the implementation of the Code since its entry into force and (iii) align the Code with international trade agreements that were not in force at the time of its adoption. In addition, the proposal amends the definition of the customs territory of the Union to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano within its scope. The inclusion of these two territories in the customs territory of the Union shall apply from 1 January 2020.
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  • date: 2019-03-25T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal summary: PURPOSE: to make technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers. LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2019/474 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code. CONTENT: the amendments to the EU Customs Code aim to (i) implement the fundamental objectives of enabling the Customs Union to function effectively and to implement the Common Commercial Policy, (ii) resolve a number of technical problems that have been identified in the implementation of the Code since its entry into force and (iii) harmonise the Code with international trade agreements that were not in force when it was adopted. In concrete terms, the amendments aim in particular to: - specify that the holder of a binding tariff information (BTI) decision may use that decision for up to six months after the decision has been revoked if the revocation results from the fact that the decision was not in conformity with customs legislation or that the conditions laid down for issuing the decision were not or no longer fulfilled; - add temporary storage to the list of customs formalities covered by the provision that extinguishes a debt due to non-compliance in cases where there was no significant negative effect, no attempt at deception and the situation was subsequently regularised; - add a new provision in order to provide total relief from import duty for goods that have been repaired or altered under the outward processing procedure in a country with which the Union has concluded a preferential agreement (like CETA with Canada) providing for such relief. In addition, the Regulation amends the definition of the customs territory of the Union to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia (an Italian enclave located on the territory of Switzerland) and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano within its scope. The inclusion of these two territories in the customs territory of the Union shall apply from 1 January 2020. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 14.4.2019. docs: title: Regulation 2019/474 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32019R0474 title: OJ L 083 25.03.2019, p. 0038 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2019:083:TOC
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  • The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection adopted the report by Jasenko SELIMOVIC (ALDE, SE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 laying down the Union Customs Code.

    The committee recommended that the European Parliament adopt its position at first reading, taking over the Commission proposal.

    The proposal aims to make technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers.

    The Commission proposes to amend the EU Customs Code in order to correct these technical errors and omissions, including the alignment harmonisation of the UCC with an international agreement that was not in force at the time of adoption of the Code, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

    In addition, the proposal aims to respond to a request from Italy to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano in the customs territory of the Union.

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  • PURPOSE : to make technical amendments to the Union Customs Code (UCC) to ensure that the Code meets its objectives of improving the competitiveness of European businesses, but also better protecting the financial and economic interests of the Union and the Member States and the safety and security of EU consumers. 

    PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

    ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.

    BACKGROUND: following the entry into force of the new substantial provisions of the Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council laying down Union Customs Code (UCC) in May 2016, the process of regular consultation with Member States and business has resulted in the identification of errors and technical anomalies that need to be corrected in order to ensure legal certainty and consistency.

    The Commission has therefore prepared this proposal to amend the UCC with a view to correcting these technical errors and omissions, including the alignment of the UCC with an international agreement that was not in force at the time of adoption of the UCC, namely, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

    The proposal also aims at addressing a request from Italy to include the municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano in the EU customs territory.

    CONTENT: the proposal provides for the following amendments to the provisions of the UCC:

    • amend the definition of the customs territory of the Union to include the Italian municipality of Campione d'Italia and the Italian waters of Lake Lugano within its scope. The inclusion of these territories in the customs territory of the Union should apply from 1 January 2019;
    • specify that the holder of a binding tariff information (BTI) decision may use that decision for up to six months after the decision has been revoked if the revocation results from the fact that the decision was not in conformity with customs legislation or that the conditions laid down for issuing the decision were not or no longer fulfilled;
    • add temporary storage to the list of customs formalities covered by the provision that extinguishes a debt due to non-compliance in cases where there was no significant negative effect, no attempt at deception and the situation was subsequently regularised;
    • clarify that, where customs authorities must invalidate an entry summary declaration due to the fact that the goods covered by the declaration have not been brought into the customs territory of the Union, the entry summary declaration should be invalidated without delay 200 days after the declaration was lodged rather than within 200 days as that is the period within which the goods must be brought into the customs territory of the Union;
    • clarify that economic operators provide them with pre-arrival data concerning non-Union goods in the form of an entry summary declaration. Where an entry summary declaration has not been lodged before the arrival of the goods and the obligation to lodge it has not been waived, economic operators should submit the data normally included in entry summary declarations in their customs declarations or temporary storage declarations;
    • clarify that, in cases where customs authorities have to invalidate a temporary storage declaration due to non-presentation of the relevant goods, the invalidation must happen once 30 days have elapsed since the declaration was lodged rather than "within" the period of 30 days;
    • clarify that, in cases where customs authorities have to invalidate an exit summary declaration or reexport notification due to the non-export of the relevant goods, the invalidation must happen once 150 days have elapsed since the declaration or notification was lodged rather than "within" the period of 150 days;
    • add a new provision in order to provide total relief from import duty for goods that have been repaired or altered under the outward processing procedure in a country with which the Union has concluded a preferential agreement (like CETA with Canada) providing for such relief.
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