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Document 31998D0018
Agreements with Canada on customs matters
Agreements with Canada on customs matters
SUMMARY OF:
Council Decision 98/18/EC to conclude EU-Canada agreement on customs issues
EU-Canada agreement on customs issues
Council Decision 2014/941/EU on supply-chain security
EU-Canada agreement on supply-chain security
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE DECISIONS AND THE AGREEMENTS?
KEY POINTS
EU-Canada agreement on customs issues
Customs cooperation
The parties undertake to develop customs cooperation by:
Mutual administrative assistance
The parties undertake to assist each other, either on request or on their own initiative. They share all appropriate information that helps to ensure the proper application of customs legislation and the prevention and combating of any breach of such legislation. To achieve this, they communicate to each other any new customs law enforcement techniques and any new trends and means of committing breaches of customs legislation.
The customs authorities also provide each other with information on operations, completed or planned, which appear to constitute a breach of customs legislation in the territory of the other contracting party.
Assistance on request
The requested authority* informs the applicant authority* of the customs legislation and procedures applicable in its territory and relevant to inquiries relating to a breach of customs legislation. This information may relate to the lawfulness of procedures for exporting and importing goods between the two contracting parties and to the customs procedure applied.
The agreement also provides for special surveillance of persons who have committed a breach of customs legislation or who are suspected of doing so. This surveillance may also be applied to goods giving rise to illicit trafficking and to the transport and premises used to this end.
Spontaneous assistance
One of the two parties may supply information on its own initiative in serious cases that could involve substantial damage to the economy, public health, public security or any other vital interest of the other contracting party.
Formal aspects and exceptions to assistance
Customs cooperation with regard to supply-chain security
FROM WHEN DO THE DECISIONS AND THE AGREEMENTS APPLY?
Decision 98/18/EC has applied since 27 November 1997. The agreement entered into force on 1 January 1998.
Decision 2014/94/EU has applied since 27 June 2013. The agreement on supply-chain security has entered into force on 1 November 2013.
BACKGROUND
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KEY TERMS
MAIN DOCUMENTS
Council Decision 98/18/EC of 27 November 1997 concerning the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and Canada on customs cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters (OJ L 7, 13.1.1998, p. 37)
Agreement between the European Community and Canada on customs cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters (OJ L 7, 13.1.1998, pp. 38-45)
Council Decision 2014/941/EU of 27 June 2013 on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and Canada on customs cooperation with respect to matters related to supply chain security (OJ L 367, 23.12.2014, pp. 8-9)
Agreement between the European Union and Canada on customs cooperation with respect to matters related to supply-chain security (OJ L 367, 23.12.2014, pp. 10-13)
last update 07.11.2017