Translation of "groupe douanier stratégie frontières extérieures " (French → English) :

Customs Group on External Frontier Strategy

customs strategy at external frontiers

External Frontier Strategy | EFS [Abbr.]

Effective, efficient, modern and harmonised approaches to customs controls at the external border of the Union are essential:

73. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the organisation of customs procedures at the EU's external borders, to create better conditions for legal business activity, international trade and swift movement of persons and goods, to overhaul the infrastructure at customs offices at the EU's external borders, taking account of the implementing provisions of the Community Customs Code, to furnish customs offices with modern monitoring equipment and to ensure that these tools are used effectively in the carrying out of customs checks;

73. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the organisation of customs procedures at the EU’s external borders, to create better conditions for legal business activity, international trade and swift movement of persons and goods, to overhaul the infrastructure at customs offices at the EU’s external borders, taking account of the implementing provisions of the Community Customs Code, to furnish customs offices with modern monitoring equipment and to ensure that these tools are used effectively in the carrying out of customs checks;

12. Stresses that substantial quantities of recyclable waste and waste that contains raw materials are still being illegally exported from the EU; calls on the Commission to take all possible steps to identify and to put a stop to illegal exports and to incorporate EU-equivalent recycling standards into international agreements; calls on the Member States to significantly reinforce export control regimes, and on the Commission to close the current loopholes in the Waste Shipment Regulation, especially with respect to customs controls at the external borders of the EU; calls also, in this context, on all the EU’s trading partners, espe ...[+++]cially developing countries, to adopt appropriate laws and enforce adequate control measures to prevent illegal imports of any kind of waste onto their territory and to fight actively against the corruption that often enables these illegal imports to happen in the first place;