Pre-departure Processes

Pre-departure processes are quickly gaining importance as several initiatives to improve the security and safety of trade are being entered into the execution phase. Most prominent of those are the security and safety amendments to European Community Customs Code, that prescribe the mandatory electronic lodgment of pre-departure information for risk analysis purposes.

Unlike the pre-arrival processes where completely new information flows must be put in place the pre-departure process can be thought as an improvement of the existing export processes. For the most part the pre-departure security information can be lodged together with an export declaration. 

Only in those cases where the export declaration is not needed, new processes must be put in place. 

CuE helps the customs authorities and traders to implement the pre-departure processes:

• lodgments of electronic exit summary declarations by traders
• validation of electronic exit summary declarations
• amendment of electronic exit summary declarations by traders
• automatic and optional manual risk-analysis of pre-departure information and assignment of controls by customs authorities