Today, global competition obliges companies dealing in international trade to modernize their procedures of delivery in order to minimize the customs burden and simplify the relation with customs authorities. Customs planning is the current option to be effective in the worldwide marketplace. However, customs officials are facing new challenges: they must ensure the smooth flow of trade while applying necessary controls on the one hand, while protecting the health and safety of the Community's citizens on the other. To achieve and maintain the correct balance between these demands, control methods are constantly evolving raising major challenges to those charged with planning and compliance. This book is a highly practical work dealing with the ins and outs of European Union (EU) customs law. Cases of study, jurisprudence and comparative law support the analysis of the different legal tools. The consolidated principles ruling the transactions within WTO Member States applied in EU law offer the readers the opportunity to understand how customs rules can be applied in any customs jurisdiction. Authored by an international tax lawyer with extensive experience enforcing EU customs law as a former member of Italy’s financial police, this handy resource is designed to help the reader stay in compliance with the laws controlling EU importing and exporting while structuring transactions in a business-friendly manner. “This book is a reference work in the customs law field. It deals thoroughly and practically with all the matters that a customs law practitioner would need to know. This book works well both for beginners and experts, since both will find needed information and insight in it.” EU Law Live – Book Review by Darya Budova, Senior Associate, Uría Menéndez

The third edition of EU Customs Law provides a fully updated treatment of legislation, new treaties and cases in the two courts of the EU especially but also in Member States. This volume also includes commentary on the Modernized Community Customs Code and Implementing Regulation and increased coverage of areas such as the wider role of customs authorities apart from the collection of customs duty, such as security of goods and post 9/11 developments generally, the history of customs unions and their implications for governments, non-EU customs unions to which EU law is relevant, and the inter-relation between customs duty and direct tax.

The author of this book believes that identifiable and immutable principles of taxation and administration are at the heart of customs procedures and practices, and that they determine the broad framework of customs legislation. Based on this, he explains how these principles are enshrined in European customs law, and how they work in practice. He takes into account the full spectrum of laws interwoven with EU customs law, including EU treaty provisions, European Court of Justice (ECJ) case law, international conventions, and national laws - both constitutional and criminal, along with authoritative commentaries from other experts. The work covers every practical topic and issue stemming from the EU's Community Customs Code (CCC). Its comprehensive coverage includes: import and export procedures, authorised economic operators, customs valuation rules, customs classification rules, preferential tariff treatment, free zone and customs warehousing facilities, inward and outward processing and processing under customs control, legal structure of the Common Customs Tariff, reliefs from import and export duties, incurrence of customs debt and persons liable, customs decisions and appeal procedure, and jurisprudence of the ECJ governing the CCC.

The authors [of this fifth edition] from the firm "Van Bael & Bellis" cover every issue likely to arise in any trade defence matter, including all of the following and more : determining the dumping and injury margins ; determining the subsidy margin ; determining the causal link between dumping or subsidy and injury ; determining if 'Union interest calls for intervention ; differences between anti-dumping and anti-subsidy legislation ; procedural rules applicable to complaints, initiation of proceedings, investigations, protective measures, reviews, and refunds; conditions for accepting an undertaking; measures that may be taken to prevent circumvention of anti-dumping measures ; rules for the determination of permissible adjustments ; rules governing the standing of various interested parties before the European Courts ; rules and procedure applicable to non-market economy countries ; special rules on products originating in a developing country ; allocation and administration of quantitative quotas ; surveillance measures ; and whether and to what extent safeguard measures are subject to judicial review.

A detailed treatment of the subject, examining both the relevant legislation and the case-law of the EC Court of Justice, this work derives from a section in the looseleaf Law of the EU (Vaughan & Robertson, eds), and is made available here for the benefit of those who don't subscribe to the looseleaf.

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph provides a survey and analysis of the rules concerning Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 Concerning Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. It covers every type of intellectual property right in depth – copyright and neighbouring rights, patents, utility models, trademarks, trade names, industrial designs, plant variety protection, chip protection, trade secrets, and confidential information. Particular attention is paid throughout to recent developments and trends. The analysis approaches each right in terms of its sources in law and in legislation, and proceeds to such legal issues as subject matter of protection, conditions of protection, ownership, transfer of rights, licences, scope of exclusive rights, limitations, exemptions, duration of protection, infringement, available remedies, and overlapping with other intellectual property rights. The book provides a clear overview of intellectual property legislation and policy, and at the same time offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 Concerning Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative intellectual property law.

In a World characterised by the competing sires of protectionist pressures and globalisation, proper knowledge of customs law is an essential skill for enterprises and legal practitioners alike. This book provides the reader with an in-depth analysis of the innovations and changes found in the Union Customs Code (UCC), starting with international doctrine, attesting to the significant transformation that has taken place in customs law over the last two decades. The book also deals, in very real terms, with WTO and WCO resolutions and confirms the importance of a common interpretation of customs rules. It contains a detailed excurse on the new European customs regulations and recent case law of the European Court of justice. It is a 'must-have' because it is suitable for different types of readers. It will also appeal to academics, customs practitioners and consultants wishing to examine in depth the new customs legislation from a global and international perspective. Book jacket.