Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Joint Committee set up by the Convention on a common transit procedure as regards amendments to that Convention

As of 1 May 2016 Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code and its Implementing and Delegated acts will apply (UCC legal package). The UCC legal package will replace the current Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community Customs Code and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down provisions for the implementation of the above Council Regulation.

The common transit procedure is an extension of the Union transit procedure to the common transit countries. Therefore the Convention on a common transit procedure has to be amended in order to be aligned with the UCC legal package concerning the Union transit arrangements. That amendment will allow for a uniform and harmonised application of the transit rules in the European Union and in the common transit countries, as far as possible.

The process to establish an EU common position on draft Decision concerning the amendment to the Convention on a common transit procedure should be relatively smooth as the content is based on EU rules that have been subject to agreement recently. Therefore, in order to be able to provide the legal basis for the use of the amended common transit procedure as soon as the new EU customs legislation is applicable, the draft Council Decision is proposed to provide the basis for the amendment to the Convention.

EUR-Lex: COM(2016)133: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2016:133:FIN

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