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Purpose of the Customs and Global Trade Control FrameworkThe Customs and Global Trade Control Framework is designed to ensure that all cross-border movements of goods, particularly energy products stored and processed at our terminals, are conducted in full co...

Scope of Application Across the GroupFrom a group-level perspective, the Customs and Global Trade Control Framework applies broadly across various components of the organisation to ensure integrated, consistent, and compliant customs and trade management. The ...

At terminal level, the Customs and Global Trade compliance control framework is structured around a clearly defined Administrative Organisation and Internal Control (AO/IC). This umbrella document outlines how the terminal is organised from a governance, staff...

Operational controls govern the accurate and consistent execution of customs- and excise-related activities in the terminal's day-to-day operations. These include: Accurate registration of product movements in the Terminal Management System (TMS), capturi...

General compliance controls are preventive and governance-focused, ensuring that activities at the terminal are legally permissible and that responsibilities are properly mandated. These include: Product acceptance controls, designed to confirm that only ...

License compliance controls ensure that the terminal continues to meet the conditions of its customs and excise authorisations. Key elements include: Monitoring of license conditions, such as permitted activities, approved goods, bonded storage limits, an...

A key element of maintaining an effective Customs and Excise Compliance Framework is ensuring that all relevant stakeholders possess an up-to-date understanding of applicable legislation, procedures, and industry practices. Within the BzCtrl. platform, a dedic...

Customer ObligationWhen using the Terminal's customs services, the Customer is responsible for providing the correct 10-digit TARIC code for each product subject to a customs declaration.The code must be supplied in advance or at the time the goods are brought...

OverviewWhen two or more products are blended, the resulting blended product may fall under a different customs classification than its individual components. This can significantly affect the applicable duties, regulatory requirements, and import/export contr...

Non-preferential origin rules are used for the application of all kinds of non-preferential commercial policy measures, like, for instance, the most-favoured-nation treatment, anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties, trade embargoes, safeguard measures, ...

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IntroductionThe Comprehensive Guarantee (CGU) authorisation relates to the various authorisations for special procedures, such as in this case the authorisation for Inward processing. On the basis of Annex A UCC-DA, "the Common data requirements for applicatio...

IntroductionAs explained, we have two level regarding the Customs Product database:The Taric commodity code, which is the classification of Products from an EU Customs point of view; andThe Product by Trade name, belonging to a Taric commodity code (always one...

The information coming from the Taric service should also be possible to look into as a User. This is already in place, but we need add one option, which is to allow the user to input the Origin, on which basis the applicable Measure types are filtered. Below...

Currently we have a button to Add Products, which is perfect. However, the Page it opens should be adjusted. Just like the Taric Settings Page, the Products Settings Page should be related to a Single product only. At the same time, to increase User friendline...

Executive SummaryA comprehensive guarantee under the UCC is an umbrella guarantee that can cover both potential and existing customs debts. For an existing debt, it can serve as an alternative to immediate payment. The legal framework is found mainly in Articl...

The holder of an excise warehouse must provide a financial guarantee for the excise duty that he is or may become liable to pay. The guarantee amount is calculated on the basis of the excise duty interest.The excise duty interest represents the total excise du...

A common mistake made in building IT systems, is that it is considered an IT project led by IT people / developers. It may be assumed that it is clear that IT systems should accommodate business processes, however, in practice we see that 9 our of 10 IT projec...

'Goods don't fall from the sky'. The operational business of a Terminal that deals with energy products, starts with receiving Products.  These Products are carried by a Means of Transport (MoT). The following MoT's are common in the industry. Any MoT has thei...