Glossary

‘Other legislation applied by the customs authorities’ means legislation other than customs legislation applicable to the goods entering, exiting, passing through the customs territory of the … Union, or to be placed in the Union market, in the implementation of which the customs authorities are involved.

Uniform customs laws apply in a customs territory and there are no internal customs duties or similar taxes. A customs territory comprises territories including their territorial waters, inland … waters and airspace.

Part of the EU’s trade rules enforcement arsenal, the Trade Barriers Regulation is a legal instrument that gives EU companies, industries, associations and Member States the right to lodge a … complaint with the Commission about trade barriers in third countries.

Transit manual, prepared by the European Commission, is a detailed description of the common and the Union transit procedures. It explains how these transit procedures work and the roles of the … various participants.

EU customs legislation means the body of legislation made up of all of the following: the Union Customs Code and the provisions supplementing or implementing it adopted at Union or national level; … the Common Customs Tariff; the legislation setting up a Union system of reliefs from customs duty; international agreements containing customs provisions, insofar as they are applicable in the Union. Watch the video and learn more (practical examples provided)!

The Union Customs Code (UCC) is set out in the Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9.10.2013. UCC lays down the general rules and procedures applicable … to goods brought into or taken out of the customs territory of the EU.