1. The customs service shall act throughout the customs territory under the conditions laid down in this Code. 2. A special surveillance zone is organised along the land and sea borders. It constitutes the customs radius.
1. The customs radius comprises a maritime zone and a land zone. 2. The maritime zone is comprised between the coastline and an outer limit located at sea 12 nautical miles measured from the baselines of the territorial sea defined in Article 2 of Order No. 2016-1687 of 8 December 2016. 3. The land area is comprised: (a) Between the coastline and a line drawn forty kilometres within it ;…
In the contiguous zone as defined by Article 10 of Order No. 2016-1687 of 8 December 2016, the customs service may carry out the necessary controls in order to: a) prevent infringements of the laws and regulations that the customs administration is responsible for enforcing in the customs territory ; b) prosecuting infringements of the same laws and regulations committed in the customs territory.
1. Customs formalities can only be completed at customs offices. 2. Exceptions to this rule may be granted by order of the Director General of Customs and Excise.
1. Customs offices are established and abolished by orders of the Minister of the Economy and Finance on the proposal of the Director General of Customs and Indirect Taxation. 2. When the office is located within the customs radius, the order prescribing its establishment or closure must be posted, at the behest of the Prefect, in the municipality in which the office is located and in neighbouring municipalities.
The customs administration is required to affix to the front of each office, in a conspicuous place, a notice bearing the following words: “Bureau des douanes françaises”.
1. Orders issued by the Director General of Customs and Excise set the opening and closing hours of customs offices. 2. However, customs offices may not be open for less than eight hours from 1st April to 30th September and seven hours from 1st October to 31st March, except in the case of customs annexes whose opening hours may be limited to certain days or even certain hours per week.
Customs brigades are created and abolished by decisions of the Director General of Customs and Excise.
1. Gates, offices, posts or fences intended for the guarding and surveillance of the frontiers may be established on the land that is necessary on condition that the State pays the value of this land by mutual agreement. 2. The customs offices may be located in the houses that are most suitable for the public service and for the administration, with the exception, however, of those occupied by the owners….
1. The municipal administrations and, in their absence, those of the department are required, when requisitioned by the heads of the customs service, to designate the houses and sites suitable for the establishment of offices and the accommodation of officers. 2. The designation must relate only to houses or sites which are not occupied by the owners, unless it is absolutely impossible to obtain others; in this case, part of…
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