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Get ready for new Dutch customs system, urges C4T

[ October 4, 2022   //   ]

Customs solution provider C4T is advising traders with the Netherlands that the country is switching from the AGS system to the highly automated Douane-aangiften Management System (DMS) system. It will be among the first EU member states to introduce a real-time declaration process in place of periodic reporting in line with the legal requirements of the Union Customs Code (UCC) to be completed across the EU by 2025. 

In anticipation of the imposition of a uniform data model for all EU states, C4T has built its own centralised, collaborative system, CAS on the same model of customs codes. It is compatible with not only the new Dutch DMS but with all the new automated customs clearance systems being developed in each EU state.

“The EU’s Union Customs Code came into effect in 2016 and is intended to result in a fully automated customs union by 2025,” outlines C4T’s Product Marketing Manager Sam Blakeman. “Each state will retain its own customs control and declaration system, but existing electronic procedures are having to be replaced in order for a more harmonised, and hopefully frictionless, freight transport environment to be achieved across the EU.”

C4T says the Dutch government is committed to a simplified customs regime and is leading the way in developing DMS with a phased introduction of various elements which started in October last year.  A second phase was completed earlier this year and the final step comes in October.

“Our CAS system is integrated with Portbase which facilitates the CVB message and automates the pre-notification and presentation notification processes — each vital in ensuring the free-flow of import cargo through Dutch customs from October 4th onwards,” explains Blakeman. Further elements of DMS will be brought into play through 2023 with the completion of full implementation scheduled for June.”

C4T founder and president Pieter Haesaert added: “True frictionless trade within the EU’s 27 states is a tall order.  The current UCC initiative will go a long way to achieving it.  Apart from the willingness to invest and to commit to systems change by governments, we need a heightening of importer/exporter awareness and an effective ‘one-stop’ platform to help them on their way. At C4T we intend to help with both the last two imperatives.”

Established in 2008, Haesaert built the CAS platform from the ground up, employing the more flexible IT technologies available over the last ten years such as real-time data processing and native cloud solutions. 

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