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Article 65 bis A of the French Customs Code

In order to establish the basis of assessment and control of taxes, duties and charges falling within the remit of the customs and excise administration and with a view to detecting fraud, the right of communication provided for in article 65 may relate to information concerning unidentified persons, under conditions laid down by a decree of the Conseil d’Etat issued after consultation with the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des…

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Article 65 ter of the French Customs Code

The Autorité Nationale des Jeux and the Direction Générale des Douanes et Droits Indirects may spontaneously provide each other with all information and documents gathered in the course of their respective duties.

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Article 65 quater of the French Customs Code

Persons who design or publish management or accounting software or cash register systems or who intervene technically in the functionalities of these products directly or indirectly affecting the keeping of records or the preservation or integrity of the original documents required for controls by the customs authorities are required to present to the customs authorities, at their request, all related codes, data, processing or documentation. For the application of the…

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Article 65 quinquies of the French Customs Code

In order to establish the offences referred to in Articles 414, 414-2, 415 and 459, to gather evidence thereof and to seek out the perpetrators, accomplices and those who participated as interested parties within the meaning of Article 399, customs officers with at least the rank of controller and specially authorised by the director of the department to which they are assigned may obtain communication of the data stored and…

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Article 65 A of the French Customs Code

The customs administration is empowered to check the beneficiaries of benefits granted under the internal system by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, or by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, as well as those liable for the sums due under the internal system to these bodies. The information gathered in this way may be passed on to the paying agencies and to the Interministerial Commission for the…

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Article 65 A bis of the French Customs Code

1° Under the derogating provisions of Article 2a, the customs administration is authorised to check the quantity, quality, markings, packaging, destination or use of goods with national or Community status, for which any benefit allocated by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, or by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, is requested. In addition, it is authorised to issue approvals in accordance with current Community regulations, where these…

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Article 65 B of the French Customs Code

The customs administration may implement the provisions of articles 60 to 60-10, 61, 63b and 65 in order to ensure compliance with the special requirements applicable to trade in certain Community goods with the other Member States of the European Community. The list of goods referred to in the previous paragraph is laid down by order of the Minister responsible for customs.

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Article 66 of the French Customs Code

1. For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences provided for in this Code, customs officers shall have access to the premises of postal service providers and express freight companies, as defined in Article 67e, where consignments containing or appearing to contain goods and sums, securities or valuables relating to these offences may be held. This access does not apply to the part of the premises that is for…

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Article 66 bis of the French Customs Code

1. Any natural or legal person who, in the course of continuous and regular commercial traffic, sends postal parcels or items by post from abroad to recipients in the customs territory, including the free zones of Gex and Haute-Savoie, is required to have a representative domiciled in France accredited by the customs and excise administration to carry out the customs clearance formalities relating to these imports. 2. Orders issued by…

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