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New Computerized Transit System (NCTS)

NCTS

The New Computerized Transit System (NCTS) is a European wide system for electronically declaring and processing of transit procedures. The NCTS replaces the paper based systems for Community Transit and Common Transit.

Important!

As of 31 March 2004 companies that act as authorized consignor or authorized consignee can no longer use the paper based procedures. Consequently, these companies shall apply the NCTS (ultimately) from that date.

Background and time scheme

For several reasons the NCTS has been introduced. With NCTS the EU and the participating non-EU countries aim to:

increase the efficiency and effectivesness of transit procedures;
improve the prevention and detection of fraud;
accelerate transactions carried out under a transit procedure and to offer more security for transactions with goods that have been placed under the customs procedure for transit.

The NCTS has been introduced in steps. For an overview of the general time scheme* and the steps phase 3.1*, phase 3.2.1* and phase 3.2.2* reference is made to the aforementioned embedded links. See also the report of the European Commission.

Countries for which the NCTS applies

EU Member States
Austria	Belgium	Denmark	Finland	France	Germany
Greece	Italy	Ireland	Luxemburg	Netherlands	Portugal
Spain	Sweden	United Kingdom
new EU Member States (1 May 2004)
Cyprus	Czech Republic	Estonia	Hungary	Latvia	Lithuania
Malta	Poland	Slovenia	Slovak Republic
EFTA countries
Iceland	Liechtenstein	Norway	Switzerland
Visegrad countries
Czech Republic	Hungary	Poland	Slovak Republic

Our consultancy services

Companies that are implementing or applying the NCTS can take advantage of our consultancy services, which range from general legal advice or specific legal support in the scope of arranging licences or other implmentation measurements, to streamlining administrative processes from the perspective of customs and VAT auditing. With an international network of customs specialists we are able to cover the countries that are involved in the NCTS.

* Source: "New customs transit systems for Europe", ISBN: 92-828-9356-1 respectively NCTS website of the EU Commission