Centralised Clearance (CC) is Coming – What You Need to Know

With CC, you can centralise your customs declarations across the EU. You’ll submit your declaration to the Supervising Customs Office (SCO), even when the goods arrive via a customs office in a different Member State – known as the Presentation Customs Office (PCO). This applies to most standard customs procedures, with the exception of e-commerce declarations (types H6 and H7).

What Do You Need to Use CC?

To use Centralised Clearance, data must be exchanged between customs authorities and companies holding a CC authorisation. To be eligible, you’ll need at least an AEO-C authorisation.

For those interested in the legal details: Centralised Clearance is laid out in Article 179 of the UCC. More detailed rules can be found in Articles 180 and 181, and further elaborated in Article 149 of the Delegated Regulation and Articles 229 to 232 of the Implementing Regulation.

What About Existing SASP Authorisations?

The current cross-border authorisations under the SASP scheme will be replaced once CC is introduced. They’ll automatically be converted into a CC authorisation. If you're already a SASP holder, Dutch Customs will ask you to provide input for a CC control plan in 2025.

Not yet a SASP holder, but planning to centralise your declarations? You can apply for a CC authorisation, as long as you meet the conditions.

To support CC, the message structure used for customs declarations will also be updated across EU Member States.

What’s the Timeline?

Dutch Customs aims to make CC available for import declarations by the end of 2025, with export declarations following shortly after, in 2026.

The following countries are already live with CC: Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Luxembourg, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. The remaining Member States will follow their own timelines.

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