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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...

10-Digit Commodity Code (TARIC)When a customs declaration is required, the goods must be declared using the applicable 10-digit commodity code (TARIC code). As the Company provides customs services on behalf of the Customer, the Customer is responsible for tim...

PurposeWhere two or more products or components are blended, mixed or otherwise combined before being declared to Customs, the resulting product may require a different customs classification from the individual components.The customs classification must there...

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...

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...

IntroductionEquivalent goods not applicableANNEX A COMMON DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATIONS AND DECISIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2(1)S e c t i o n 2D a t a r e q u i r e m e n t s t a b l e f o r d a t a g r o u p 3 1 - 3 8 Processed goods 35 01 010  Commo...

The governance of customs processes is done via authorizations/licenses. In these licenses, an important element is the identification of locations that are considered approved for the application of the license. To allow the application of business rules, but...

In the dealing with Products, we deal with various Parties in the Supply chain. The Parties involves vary from Customers to Surveyors, but also Consignors and Consignees, or Customers of our Customers to which assets are sub-leased. Hence, a generic concept is...

By far, the most important part of a sufficient setup of a record keeping is the so-called Parcel administration.Customs is all about Products. Please let that sink in.Yes, Products are transported with a means of Transportation or are stored and blended in ta...

So now that we have covered the registration of the Means of Transport (MoT), Locations where these MoT's can be located, the Products and related information, we are getting to the registration of the things we will do with the Product. The Activities.An Acti...

Any (bulk) Product is physically contained somewhere. This can be a compartment on a Vessel, a Truck or in a Train Wagon. Or it could be in a Tank or a Pipeline. To identify the physical location where a Product can be taken from we refer to the concept of a S...