EU Single Window for Customs: new regulation and what lies ahead?

Customs Compliance & Risk Management, Issue 18, December 2022 / January 2023
Enrika Naujokė
Enrika Naujokė
Co-founder and Director, CustomsClear, Lithuania
Published 11 Dec 2022
EU Single Window for Customs: new regulation and what lies ahead?
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New regulation establishes the EU Single Window Environment for Customs (SWE-C) and amends the Union Customs Code (UCC). One of the objectives of SWE-C is to enable the seamless flow of data between the administrations of exporting and importing countries, as well as between customs authorities and economic operators, allowing data entered in the system to be re-used. What does it mean for business? What steps have been taken so far in practice? What lies ahead? What is changing in the UCC?

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