Customs data requirements in the EU – latest changes

Customs Compliance & Risk Management, Issue 25, February / March 2024
Jurgita Stanienė
Jurgita Stanienė
Head of the Customs Compliance Department, UAB "Muita", Lithuania
Published 24 Mar 2024
Customs data requirements in the EU – latest changes
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The Union Customs Code and related regulations set out, among other things, the requirements for the data to be submitted to customs. Normally, these regulations are not often amended. However, this has not been the case recently, see ‘EU law news February 2024’. In this article, we provide an overview of some of the latest changes to the data elements and invite readers who are new to the subject to familiarise themselves with the data tables and the new definitions such as sub-elements, sub-classes and attributes.

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