In just a few weeks at the SITL 2010, CONEX will present the new face of its complete range of solutions for totally dematerialised EU customs procedures. EMCS via conex, its software dedicated to the electronic treatment of excise movements, has just been launched as a preview.
A paperless Europe has been on the agenda for the last three years: the 27 EU customs administrations have been striving towards a harmonisation of their procedures by playing the declaration dematerialisation card.
Now it is goods subject to excise duties – tobacco, alcohol and energy products – which will be making the headlines in Spring 2010. From the 1st of April 2010, French companies must all be capable of processing electronically the numeric declarations attached to the goods delivered to them; and from 1st January 2011, merchandise leaving their premises will be subject to the same electronic treatment: no more paper documents! The e-declaration will take over permanently. With the EMCS via conex solution, it’s already possible for warehouse arrivals and dispatches.
With EMCS via conex, companies choose facility and security.
EMCS via conex enables direct on-screen data input for the operator drawing up an e-AAD or retrieval from any other application if the required information has been entered upstream. EMCS via conex will then transmit the data via a secured connection, to all the national customs servers, whil respecting the regulations, format rules and transmission coherence specific to each EU Member State.
After a control by the Member State of dispatch, EMCS via conex becomes the relay for the ARC (AAD Registration Code) or the various errors messages. These elements are transmitted in a format that can be exploited by the operator’s server. As soon as the arrival notification has been drawn up by the consignee, EMCS via conex recovers the information and immediately transmits a message to the consignor allowing for the movement of goods to be discharged..
In this way, the EU administrations tighten their control over one of their oldest sources of revenue, and reduce the risk of fraud while ensuring a greater traceability of movements from the moment the e-AAD is issued until the report of receipt is returned.
Companies win too, through faster treatment of their excise movements, but only if they adapt their operations in time for the launching of this new regulation! Although operators will be able to move beyond the constraints of paper documents, the EMCS still requires new work methods by way of EDI data transmission – just what CONEX predicted and the reason it has been accompanying its clients through these fundamental changes since 2004.
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