ecustoms.eu/ecustoms.it

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Direzione Centrale Tecnologie per l’Innovazione

e

customs.eu/

e

customs.it

“The first worldwide round-table talks on

nurserystock issues”

Giarre - June 25, 2013

Teresa Alvaro

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The Strategic Framework: “the G

lobal

Supply Chain”

“Nations do not trade, nor do sectors. It is firms that trade”

Ø

The nature of trade is linked to the main production methods

Ø

The new strategic framework

demands to

transform customs into a

proactive

partner to trade

, whilst protecting fiscal, safety and security

interests

Towards a

holistics

approach

to solve the “customs dilemma”

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Protecting the security

and safety of citizens

Protecting the EU/

national budget

controls

speed

Favouring reliable

traders

Fostering the

competitiveness

of enterprises

27 Customs Administrations acting as one ?

Yes, provided that they share common IT procedures

The Customs

Dilemma

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The Complexity of the Customs

Clearance Process

…CITES…

The World Bank

estimates up to

73 documents per customs

declaration, released by

over

20 bodies

In Italy

up to

68 documents released by

17 OGA

Ministry of Economic Development

Department of communications

…electromagnetic compatibility…

Ministry of Economic

development

…marks, quality and security of products…

Ministry of Infrastructure

and Transport

…certifications…

Ministry of Health

…sanitary and veterinary…

Ministry of Agricultural,

Food and Forestry Policies

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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• WCO defines SW according to REC n. 33 UN\CEFACT

:

“a form of facilitation that allows... to lodge information and

documents at one single point of entry, to meet the regulatory

requirements prescribed for import/export/transit”

Keystone: Single Window

• Reg. n. 648/2005 of the European Parliament and the Council

: it

has introduced the principle of the unicity of a customs operation

and of the ensuing coordination of the controls performed by

different authorities.

The preparatory phase has been completed and the next

stage is the deployment of the model.

• In Italy the legal framework for Single-Window already in:

Ø

2004 Financial Law (art. 4 c. 57 and 58, L. 350/2003)

Ø

Decree of the Prime Minister having regulatory nature

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Customs “at the Cutting Edge”



Sharing standardized IT processes to favour wider

knowledge of rules (sharp reduction in trading costs

linked to procedural “uncertainties”) and of new

opportunities, while fostering investments in

innovation.



The Union Customs Code and mostly its implementing

provisions shall respect the

e

customs political

mandate: to achieve the fully automated management

of procedures and to implement Single Window.

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AIDA : the Italian implementation of

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utomazione

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ntegrata

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ogane

A

ccise

Major

assets:

Ø

“Computerization” and parallel

re-engineering of service processes

and of the relevant

activities, to customize them to the simplification opportunities offered by ICT

Ø

Re-engineering based on the single-window/one-stop-shop approach

(integration

of processes and unification of controls carried out by other administrations)

Ø

Usability of ICT services

Ø

on-line training/information

Ø

steady contacts - via web - with enterprises to record their needs and to

measure the effectiveness of action

Ø

Telematic access extended to the services provided and to the information processed

Ø

Digital Signature

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Real-Time Controls on each

Operation

All Customs declarations are screened by the system

and addressed to 4 control channels (green, yellow,

orange, red) according to their matching precise risk

profiles developed by combining some of the data in

the declarations (origin, provenance, type of goods…..)

Subjective profiles (WHITE/BLACK LIST) can decrease or

increase the risk level. Through a voluntary AUDIT procedure,

enterprises can obtain the certification of their reliability rate

(AEO model - AUTHORIZED ECONOMIC OPERATOR), which is

linked to a customized control level

RED

= Physical

Inspection

ORANGE

= Scanner Control

YELLOW

= Documentary

Control

GREEN

= Computerized Control

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1000000

1500000

2000000

2500000

3000000

3500000

4000000

Import 2012

Num. dic. import

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2000000

3000000

4000000

5000000

6000000

7000000

8000000

Export 2012

Num. dic. export

Customs-Clearance Times “belonging” to Customs

9 IMMEDIATE

clearance for

97.82%

of

simplified

procedures and for 92.75%

of normal procedures

9 IMMEDIATE

clearance for

94.52%

of

simplified

procedures and for 84.97% of

normal procedures

NO-STOP CUSTOMS

Since 03 July 2012, a telematic clearance service is available

every day from 1.00

to 24.00 (H23)

only for AEOs for simplified procedures relevant to export and

export followed by transit operations

AEO

only

Controllo Scanner - CS

The automated control allows to analyze customs

declarations and clear goods in 12 seconds to 5 minutes in

95.81% of cases

Controllo Automatizzato - CA

Visita Merci - VM

Controllo Documentale - CD

Computerized Control

Documentary Control

Physical Inspection

Scanner Control

Normal Simplified

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The Customs Single Window has been developed in the framework of the

Lisbon Agenda and of Decision 2004/387/EC of the European Parliament and

the Council (design “egov” services to increase the competitiveness of

enterprises, thus making the organization of controls more effective)

Ø

Implementation of a connection mechanism enabling the dialogue

between the administrations and bodies that participate in customs

operations by granting authorizations, permits, licences or carrying out

controls

Ø

The different Administrations integrate the processes within their

competence (of which they are holders), thus offering a common “interface”

to citizens and enterprises

Ø

Moving from the data collected in the customs declaration an

ICT process is

triggered to check the documents supporting the declaration and to

perform controls

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DPCM 242/2010: the legal basis for SW in Italy

Ø

The Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers n. 242 of 4

November 2010 (published in the Official Journal n. 10 of 4 January

2011) implements in Italy the mechanism of the "Single Window"

introduced by article 4, par. 57 of Law n. 350 of 24 December 2003.

Ø

Contains the list of certificates required for import and

export operations (annex A and B of DPCM) and maximum

time limits for their issuing;

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DPCM 242/2010: annex A and annex B

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS AND OTHER RELEVANT PROCEEDINGS PRELIMINARY TO

IMPORT AND EXPORT ACTIVITIES

Ministry or Body

involved

Deed/document issued

Release time

(days)

Annex A

Annex B

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS AND OTHER RELEVANT PROCEEDINGS TO BE ISSUED WHEN

GOODS ARE PRESENTED FOR CUSTOMS PURPOSES

Ministry or Body involved

Deed/document issued following controls

Time limit (hours)

Documentary

control

Time

limit

(hours)

Physical

inspection

Tabelle A e B

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DPCM 242/2010 : “urges” OGA to cooperate on the web

Ø

the request and the control of certification/authorization are

done electronically to the customs agency (

single window

)

Ø

controls by customs and other public administrations are

unified (

one stop shop

);

Ø

conferencing services promoted by the regional customs

directorates identify solutions to harmonize opening hours and

to facilitate and standardize the implementation of controls.

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AIDA, TARIC and Single Window

Example of an import operation: 15,400 Kg of garlic from Egypt

2. According to commodity code,

customs procedure requested, origin, preferences…

3. Measures and documents are checked on TARIC.

4. And compared with the documents stated in the

declaration (box 44).

Certificates

coded at

Community

level

Certificates

coded at

national level

Online request to the Ministry for Internation Trade

to check the AGRIM validity and residual quantities

Formal Control of the

AGECONTROL product

(to be integrated)

5. In case of difformity the declaration is rejected (admissibility control).

1. The customs declaration is acquired.

6. If everything is ok the declaration is registered and the AGRIM quantities are simultaneously

updated online by the Ministry of Economic Development.

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Previous situation: “OGA’s check” + “customs check”

• 1° check

: A supporting document is requested by anOther

Government Agency. The goods must be available for the

inspection.

• Only when the supporting document is issued by the

competent authority, the economic operator can send the

customs declaration stating the number of the certificate in

box 44 of the SAD.

• 2° check

: customs authority, on the basis of its risk analysis,

can perform another physical inspection of the goods.

SW+OSS unify controls!

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Costs for handling container halved in case of goods

inspection requested by both administrations

Following the implementation of the Italian SingleWindow

Lodge application to

Ministry of Health

Release of

health

certification

Goods

inspection

Lodge customs

declarations

Goods

inspection

Release

goods

Lodge application to

Ministry of Health

Lodge customs

Concomitant

control

Release

goods

One visit for the physical inspection

time

t

0 t

1 t

end

Economic Operator

Ministry of Health

Before the Customs Single Windows

After the Customs Single Window

Release the

reservation code

Once the operator receives the

request code

by

the Ministry of Health he can

immediately

lodge

the customs declaration

entering the code in

Waiting time

to lodge the

customs declaration

set to zero

Sharp time reduction

and lower costs for

inspections

Waiting time to lodge the

customs declarations

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Assets of the Italian Customs Single

Window

_Results

Remarkable reduction in time and costs

for businesses and Public Administrations

One Stop Shop: unified controls (more

effective and efficient controls based on

joint risk analysis)

From paper to Web …. from web to

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For more Information visit:

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The research of customs declarations can be done

by MRN, extreme of registration or STD code file

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21 Search example by MRN

Life cycle of the declaration,

from registration to release

of goods

List of competent authorities

for the release of supporting

documents

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List of status for the selected certificate

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23 Let’s work together to make

Single Window a global reality

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www.agenziadogane.it

Thank you for your attention!

• Teresa Alvaro

• Italian

Customs

Agency

• DG

Technology for