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(242)AEO or Trust and Check? Customs simplifications under the new UCC
AEO or Trust and Check? Customs simplifications under the new UCC
11 Nov 2026
For many traders, customs simplifications are a tangible benefit of authorised economic operator (AEO) status. Under the new Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 2026/2108, they end with the customs declaration itself. For distance sales, this happens on 30 June 2028, and for all traders by 1 March 2034. This recording...
Procedures
Your BTI may expire on 31 December: CN 2027 and other EU changes
Enrika Naujokė11 Nov 2026
Your BTI may expire on 31 December: CN 2027 and other EU changes
From 1 January 2027, 17 Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes disappear. If you hold a binding tariff information (BTI) decision for one of them, it ceases to be valid on 31 December 2026. Since 1 November 2026, every distance sale pays a Union handling fee of EUR 2 per item, and...
Classification
Expert articles now answer your questions: meet the Article assistant
Expert articles now answer your questions: meet the Article assistant
08 Nov 2026
Expert articles on CustomsClear now have an assistant next to them. Open an article, type a question in your own words, and the assistant answers from the article and from the sources its authors selected: the regulation, the judgments, the guidance. Each point names its source, and one click opens...
Intersection of sustainability and EU customs compliance
Barbara Bonafini26 Oct 2026
Intersection of sustainability and EU customs compliance
Customs compliance in the EU is becoming intertwined with sustainability and supply-chain due diligence. Beyond collecting duties and controlling goods, customs authorities help enforce a growing set of other rules - the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) with the Digital Product Passport (DPP),...
Sustainability
Compliance
PPWR: one manufacturer per packaging, a producer per member state
Janina Bary12 Oct 2026
PPWR: one manufacturer per packaging, a producer per member state
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Regulation (EU) 2025/40, replaces a directive with a regulation that applies directly in every member state from 12 August 2026. Member states still decide on the competent authorities, the registers for extended producer responsibility and the penalties. At the time of recording, by...
Sustainability
PPWR compliance starts in purchasing, not at the border
Jan-Joost den Brinker12 Oct 2026
PPWR compliance starts in purchasing, not at the border
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Regulation (EU) 2025/40, applies from 12 August 2026 and reaches every step of the packaging supply chain, from the overseas maker of a packaging component to the brand owner who has boxes made under its own name. The speaker’s estimate is that about...
Sustainability
New Union Customs Code: what applies now and what comes next
Anthony Buckley08 Oct 2026
New Union Customs Code: what applies now and what comes next
The new Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 2026/2108, was published on 19 September 2026 and entered into force on 20 September 2026. It applies in general from 21 September 2027. Some provisions already apply, and others follow in stages until 2034. In this recording, Anthony Buckley, former Head of Irish...
Customs law
EU law update: what changed in September and early October
EU law update: what changed in September and early October
08 Oct 2026
The new Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 2026/2108, entered into force on 20 September 2026 and applies from 21 September 2027. The Commission has also changed the product list of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which applies from 30 December 2026. The Council has renewed the Ukraine-related asset freezes until...
Customs law
Who sets the rules at the border: EU and national prohibitions and restrictions
Godfried Smit29 Sep 2026
Who sets the rules at the border: EU and national prohibitions and restrictions
The same product can be restricted in one member state and not in another. Member states keep their own measures on public health, weapons, cultural heritage and the environment, and these measures are not on the Integrated EU Prohibitions and Restrictions List. Sanctions are not on it either. DG TAXUD...
Restrictions
Held at customs: how sectoral rules delay clearance
Eva Cartwright29 Sep 2026
Held at customs: how sectoral rules delay clearance
One missing piece of data required by a sectoral rule is enough to hold goods at the border. The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the F-gas Regulation and the Forced Labour Regulation define terms such as 'importer' and 'representative' differently from the Union Customs Code,...
Restrictions
How to prepare for work without the customs declarationEnrika Naujokė29 Sep 2026
How to prepare for work without the customs declaration
This session takes the new Union Customs Code, Regulation (EU) 2026/2108, published on 19 September 2026, and answers the practical question: what does a practitioner do first? The code applies from 21 September 2027 and phases in until 2034, so for most traders the declaration itself changes nothing for years....
What the EUDR bans - and when
CustomsClear22 Sep 2026
What the EUDR bans - and when
It is Tuesday morning, and a container of roasted coffee is at the terminal in Rotterdam. Customs will not release it without a reference number, and the importer has four days before storage charges start. From 30 December 2026 this can be the morning of any importer whose goods fall...
Sustainability
PPWR - what applies now and what comes nextAnthony Buckley07 Sep 2026
PPWR - what applies now and what comes next
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), Regulation (EU) 2025/40, applies across the EU from 12 August 2026, and it reaches further than packaging manufacturers: an importer or distributor who first makes packaged products available in the EU is a 'producer', and 'packaging' covers almost anything sold with an item...
Restrictions
EU law update July-August 2026Enrika Naujokė07 Sep 2026
EU law update July-August 2026
Two new origin tests now decide whether goods are released and what duty applies, and in both the evidence must be in the declarant's hands when the declaration is lodged. From 1 October 2026, steel in the 26 Annex I categories of the Steel Regulation, whatever its origin, needs the...
Customs law
UCC changes - purpose and impactAnthony Buckley14 Jul 2026
UCC changes - purpose and impact
A cluster of EU customs changes has taken effect together, and they reach well beyond e-commerce. The €150 duty exemption is gone, and a flat €3 duty now applies to low-value goods. A new delegated regulation redefined 'postal consignment' to cover any goods under €150 sold in a distance sale,...
Customs law
E-commerce
EU trade and customs news roundup - June 2026Enrika Naujokė14 Jul 2026
EU trade and customs news roundup - June 2026
The session provides a practical overview of the new €3 duty on e-commerce consignments, updates to preferential origin rules, recent customs IT developments, the new EU GSP Regulation, EU steel safeguard measures, EU–US trade developments, the latest EU sanctions against Russia, new guidance on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation,...
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