If the CFIA wants to mirror other countries, they should concentrate all their inspections of imports, verifications and document clearance at major ports of entry prior to CBSA clearance, as in the United States, instead of tracking down shipments inland.

When you deal with those bodies, be it for verifications, investigations or reviews of assessments of privacy-related factors, the first question is: do we have someone with high enough security clearance; the second issue is getting the information and sharing it, which is not obvious, because the information is highly protected.

Where the Commission cannot identify the amounts unduly spent with proportionate effort, Member States may, within the time-periods set by the Commission during the conformity clearance procedure, submit data concerning the verification of those amounts on the basis of an examination of all individual cases potentially affected by the non-conformity.

to specify the procedural rules on the determination of the customs value of goods; to specify the procedural rules on the provision of a guarantee, the determination of its amount, its monitoring and release and the revocation and cancellation of an undertaking given by a guarantor; to specify the procedural rules regarding temporary prohibitions of the use of comprehensive guarantees; to adopt measures to ensure mutual assistance between the customs authorities in the event of the incurrence of a customs debt; to specify the procedural rules on repayment and remission of an amount of import or export duty and the information to be provided to the Commission; to adopt decisions on repayment or remission of an amount of import or expor ...[+++]t duty; to specify the procedural rules on the lodging, amendment and invalidation of an entry summary declaration; to specify the time-limit within which a risk analysis is to be carried out on the basis of the entry summary declaration; to specify the procedural rules on the notification of arrival of sea-going vessels and aircraft and on the conveyance of goods to the appropriate place; to specify the procedural rules on the presentation of goods to customs; the procedural rules on the lodging, amendment and invalidation of the temporary storage declaration and on the movement of goods in temporary storage; the procedural rules for the provision and verification of the proof of the customs status of Union goods; the procedural rules on the determination of competent customs offices and on the lodging of the customs declaration where other means than electronic data processing techniques are used; the procedural rules on the lodging of a standard customs declaration and on the making available of supporting documents; the procedural rules on the lodging of a simplified declaration and a supplementary declaration; the procedural rules on the lodging of a customs declaration prior to the presentation of goods to customs, ...

2. Without prejudice to the results of verifications made in the course of clearance of EAGGF accounts, expenditure on setting up the olive cultivation GIS and the periodical updating of the graphical reference database shall be eligible for Community financing for the 1998/99, 1999/2000 and 2000/01 marketing years.

89. The government announced it would " introduce the notion of verification and audit into the Customs universe and Customs administration because if we proceed with electronic clearance of goods at the border we will have to do proper audit and verification of what has been cleared electronically" .