Belgium, Sweden Join EU's Central Import Clearance System
Belgium and Sweden this month joined the EU's Centralized Clearance for Import (CCI) system, which the bloc is hoping to establish as its "one-stop shop" for customs clearance into the EU. The system -- which has already been available for use by European businesses in Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Luxembourg, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Croatia and Italy -- allows customs authorities of different member states to act as "one customs authority for the clearance of goods," enabling traders to submit customs declarations to their member state "for goods physically presented to a customs office in any other Member State" operating as part of CCI.
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The European Commission said Belgium has "entered operations with the CCI Phase 1 standard declaration, including pre-lodged" declarations. Sweden has done the same but also "with some CCI Phase 2 functionalities such as processing of excise goods and goods in the context of trade with special fiscal territories." The commission said other member states are "planning to join gradually in the coming months."