Entry and exit at border points are facilitated - Customs Code changes, simpler procedures for businesses
The government has initiated legal amendments to the Albanian Customs Code, which aim to clarify, supplement, refine and harmonize several provisions, with the aim of facilitating procedures for economic operators in the procedural aspect, from the point of view of regimes, guarantees, origin, appeals, payment of interest on arrears for unpaid obligations, sanctions, as well as in that of further approximation within the framework of accession to the Common Transit Convention.
Also, the draft law submitted for public consultation aims to clarify the application by customs authorities of sanctions for violations of the Customs Code, eliminating subjective positions of the administration or audits in general. The most tangible changes are related to some corrections that have been made to the section on violations by avoiding the inclusion of the same provisions in two articles, and a limit has been set for late payment interest on unpaid obligations.
According to the draft law, “The maximum amount of late payment interest applied by customs authorities shall not exceed the amount of import or export duties on which the late payment interest is applied.”
According to the draft, in order to enable customs authorities to carry out appropriate risk analysis and appropriate risk-based controls, it is necessary to ensure that economic operators provide them with pre-arrival data and information regarding non-Albanian goods in the form of an entry summary declaration.
The possibility of lodging a customs declaration or a declaration for temporary storage instead of an entry summary declaration should be available only if the customs authorities where the goods are presented allow it.
Where the customs authorities are required to cancel a declaration for temporary storage on the grounds that the goods covered by the declaration have not been presented to customs, that declaration must be cancelled without delay after 30 days have elapsed from the lodging of the declaration and not within 30 days, as this is the period within which the goods must be presented to customs.
The general objective that this draft law aims to regulate is the improvement, clarification, completion and harmonization of the legal framework to ensure the implementation of the procedures provided for in the customs legislation, both by the customs administration and by economic operators or persons in general who carry out actions in the customs field.
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