Meet the partners

The Customs administration of the Netherlands (DCA) is one of the 27 EU Customs authorities. These authorities are primarily responsible for the supervision of the Union's international trade. These authorities are required by law to put measures in place aimed, at the following:

1. protecting the financial interests of the Union and its Member States;

2. protecting the Union from unfair and illegal trade while supporting legitimate business activity;

3. ensuring the security and safety of the Union and its residents, and the protection of the environment, where appropriate in close cooperation with other authorities; and

4. maintaining a proper balance between customs controls and facilitation of legitimate trade.

 

In addition, national supervision is exercised following legislation on excise and consumer taxes. The Customs administration of the Netherlands has translated this legal mission into the following core tasks:

• Remittance: ensure that tax revenues are as accurate, timely and complete as possible;

• Protection: protect society as much as possible against unsafe and unwanted goods;

• Competitiveness: contribute to strengthening the competitive position of the European Union

 

The supervision of Customs contributes to the realization of these core tasks. Customs applies sensors as part of its supervision activities and these are means that assist Customs in distinguishing between compliant and non-compliant situations. Examples of sensors are acceptance rules, profiles, X-ray scans, radiation detection gates, detection dogs and even people. The sensors provide data such as profile scores, X-ray images, spectra, behavior, observations, etc. Interpretation of this data then provides reported information on the basis of which the distinction between compliant and non-compliant can be made.

 

The supervision of the Dutch Customs is mainly on the international transport of goods and illicit substances through the port of Rotterdam (EU#1) and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (EU#3). DCA makes extensive use of sensors as bulk and trace detection technology in support of its work. In this light, innovation of detection technologies is very important for the improved supervision with an increasing global trade market. To study detection equipment and the use thereof a special team was formed within DCA in 2009 as part of the Customs laboratory. This team is capable of carrying out studies both in the laboratory and in the field, in a Customs working environment to account for the relevant influence of the working environment on the use detection equipment. The team sets up, carries out, evaluates and reports tests done in a relevant working environment on the use of detection equipment. 

The Netherlands has one national police force that is comprised of ten regional units, and one central unit tasked with specialised duties. The Netherlands Police have 65,000 employees: 51,000 police officers and 14,000 employees who fulfil other roles supporting police work. On this page you can read what we stand for and see how you can recognize us.

 

Our motto

The police are always there, for a safer Netherlands.

 

The police protect democracy, enforce the law and are the authority on the streets.

 

Where necessary, the police lend a helping hand. In emergency situations, they take enforcement action. Where others take a step back, police officers take a step forward, if necessary with use of force, and if necessary at risk of their own lives.

 

The police work with citizens and partners actively. They have eyes and ears for what is happening in society. The police are there for everyone.

 

Serving with vigilance.

 

Our core values

Courageous, reliable, unifying and honest

The Belgian Federal Police is the national police force of Belgium. It carries out specialized and supra-local administrative and judicial police operations, and supports local police services when needed. The Federal Police has approximately 14,000 officers and civilian personnel.

 

The Federal Police is commanded by General Commissioner, who holds the rank of chief commissioner. He is in charge of the General Commissioner's Office, which comprises three general directorates: the General directorate of the administrative police (DGA), the General directorate of the judicial police (DGJ) and the General directorate of resources and information (DGR). Each general directorate is led by a general director (DG), who also holds the rank of chief commissioner.

The National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary (NTCA) is a central office under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance. 

NTCA performs the tasks of the state tax authority and customs authority. Beyond these classic tasks NTCA also performs excise, law enforcement, criminal prevention and criminal investigation tasks. NTCA has about 17,000 employees including government officials and finance guards. 

 

The NTCA is involved in the work of PARSEC with 3 experts delegated from customs professional management/direction (owner of customs data), airport cargo and data asset fields to the project. From the concerned field two experts of the NTCA Central Management and one expert form the NTCA Airport Directorate take part in the project:

• Department of Data Asset Utilization and Risk Analysis (NTCA CM DDAURA)

• Customs Department (NTCA CM CD)

• Airport Customs Directorate (NTCA ACD)

 

E-commerce at the NTCA

 

E-commerce has brought new and great challenges to the customs authorities with the enormous volume of traffic and its specific characteristics. The declared goods arrive primarily from China with an IOSS identifier and the majority of them are not destined for Hungary, but mostly for Poland and Czech Republic. Given that e-commerce is a completely new form for customs handling Third Country consignments, the risk analysis related to these consignments also had to be aligned. There is no pre-sent data, the huge amount and bad quality of information submitted to our IT system make it difficult to apply efficient risk management. The processing of the goods’ declarations with H7 data set and the related control are carried out by the Directorates of the NTCA, based on the logistical possibilities.

 

Currently, most of the traffic goes through Liszt Ferenc International Airport, which is supervised by the NTCA Airport Customs Directorate. The International Mail Exchange Center of Magyar Posta is located here, as well as the warehouses of many express mail service providers and other logistics companies involved in the delivery of e-commerce shipments. The NTCA CM Customs Department supervises the field of processing. The shipment are selected for inspection according to the results of the local risk analysis and central risk management processes. 

 

A physical inspection of goods may take place before or after submission of the declaration of goods. Therefore, the NTCA carries out inspections not only on the basis of customs procedures, but also, as a logistics procedure, in the case of goods under customs supervision. The largest proportion of violations are related to intellectual property among the detections.

 

NTCA’s participation in H2020 and Horison Europe (2021-2027) projects:

C-BORD, PEN-CP and PARSEC

Customs is responsible for protecting society and promoting international trade by managing the external borders and ensuring the security of the logistics chain.

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We are committed:

• to ensure the safety of citizens

• to protect the financial interests of the Community and its Member States by collecting and controlling import duties, excise duties and VAT upon importation

• to protect the Community against unfair and illegal trade and promote legitimate economic activities

• to increase the competitiveness of European businesses through modern working methods supported by an easily accessible electronic customs environment.

 

To carry out these tasks, we cooperate nationally and internationally with other public authorities and mainly other law enforcement services in the fight against fraud, organized crime and terrorism.

 

In addition, we want to continue to evolve in order to keep up with technological, economic and social developments and to improve our services to citizens, businesses and other stakeholders. We aim to optimize our internal operations and take our organization to the next level.

 

We do this based on three strategic ambitions: tailor-made, intelligent and future oriented. These ambitions are not a break with the past, but build on the efforts we have made together in recent years. We are realizing these ambitions with concrete projects.

 

Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and Belgian Customs are very involved in several of them: BorderSens, ENTRANCE, MULTISCAN 3D,PARSEC, PEN-CP, PROFILE.

Border Force is a law enforcement command within the Home Office. Border Force secures the border and promotes national prosperity by facilitating the legitimate movement of individuals and goods, whilst preventing those that would cause harm from entering the UK. This is achieved through the immigration and customs checks carried out by our staff at ports and airports. Our officers work at 140 sea and air ports across the UK and overseas.

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Border Force has responsibilities for:

• checking the immigration status of people arriving in and departing the UK

• searching baggage, vehicles and cargo for illicit goods or illegal immigrants

• patrolling the UK coastline and searching vessels

• gathering intelligence

• alerting the police and security services to people of interest

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Border Force priorities are to:

• deter and prevent individuals and goods that would harm the national interests from entering the UK

• facilitate the legitimate movement of individuals and trade to and from the UK

• protect and collect customs revenues for trade crossing the border

• provide excellent service to customers

• provide demonstrable effectiveness, efficiency and value for money