Customs system „Celina”

1. Customs system „Celina” Poland

2. Custom service Roles and responsibilities • The principal roles of the Customs Service include: • · exercising customs control on the commercial international exchange • · assessing and collecting customs duties and taxes in the part calculated at the State's border (VAT, excise) • · fighting against smuggling activity and counteracting customs fraud.

3. While performing these roles, the Customs Service has been fulfilling a series of responsibilities, the most important of which, certainly apart from the fiscal function, include: protection of: • · national industry - against a trade in goods which would affect adversely the conditions of competition in the country, • · natural environment - against an entry of hazardous substances and micro-organisms, • · world fauna and flora - against illegal predatory circulation of endangered species,

4. consumers - against the entry into the market of goods which are substandard with relation to Polish norms or whose period of use has expired, · society - against the entry of goods, items or appliances which are hazardous to life, health and safety of citizens or jeopardising the security of he country (e.g. weapons, paralysing gases etc.), • · State - against the loss of cultural heritage (primarily against the exportation of the goods of cultural value), • · authors, artists, industrial and commercial rights owners - against infringement of intellectual property rights, trademark, patent rights

5. Control in the area of: • · State's customs policy instruments regulating the targets and volumes of international trade (e.g. monitoring the execution of customs quotas), • · enforcement of national and international regulations relating to prohibitions and restrictions in the international trade, enforcement of regulations regarding permissible load of vehicles to ensure proper use of roads by carriers, enforcement of agreements concerning customs prevention with Poland being a party, • · foreign currency control, including combating the so-called money laundering.

6. In order to discharge the above-described roles and responsibilities, Customs Service co-operates with: • · other services in the country such as Police, Border Guard, General Customs Inspectorate, tax authorities, etc., • · customs and investigation services from other countries, • · commercial organisations, • · research and scientific institutes, universities and similar organisations.

7. Mission of the Polish Customs Service • protection of citizens and the market against threats • protection of financial interests of the UE and Poland • facilitation of legal economic activities • crime combating within the field of trade turnover

8. CustomsAdministration One of the most important elements that have theessential influence on theorganization of the future Polish Customs Administrationis informatization. The PolishCustoms Administration has achieved recently asignificant progress in computerization of customs administration and interconnectivity of thecustoms IT systems. These tools will alsoplay a supporting role in the context of border controls.We treat this issue with the highestpriority and the utmost care. The Polish CustomsAdministration is currently working on the following ITsystems.

9. DeclarationProcessing System • CELINA system is not connected with the EU IT systems. It supports and simplifies processing of customs declarations. The system operates in all Polish customs offices and branches. • Celina Has been originally designed to serve as declaration entry system that would enable Traders to submit declarations in electronic form instead of paper and thus eliminate manual keying data to ZEFIR system.

10. „Celina” This is the key system. The system has successfully passed in March 2003through The first stage of implementation, in fact ahead of the Planneddeadline. Thesystem is now implemented and operational in 20 locations. Alltraders, who aretechnically prepared todo so, submit customs declarationselectronically. Onaverage this already refers today to more than 80-90% of declarations(depending on particular location).

11. The second stage of implementationcurrently under realization, will cover 94locations altogether, includingall customs offices, as well as branches and locations of key importanceForcustoms operations after Poland’s accession to the European Union,Locatedmainly on our eastern and northern border. The third and finalstage of the rollout will cover all remaining locations that will stilloperate after structural changeimplemented due to the accession. It isforeseen that full exploitation will start atthe end of the year. It is alsoplanned thatthere will be an interface betweenNCTS and CELINAsystem. According to thelast decisions INTRASTAT statisticalsubsystemwill be included in CELINA system.

12. Objectives • Streamlining the process of declarations submitting by the business entities. • Collecting possibly broad scope of information on declaration by electronic means and transferring the information to other systems. • Speeding up declarations processing in customs units. • Automating selection process of declarations for detailed control, based on dynamically defined rules (risk analysis profile).

13. Integrated Customs Duty and Tax System The main functionality of the ICDTS system is located in the operational layer. At present this layer comprises 5 systems: • DeclarationProcessing System Celina, • Accounting and Duty Clearing System ZEFIR, • Transit System –NCTS, • EU Internal Trade StatisticsSystem –Intrastat, • TariffQuotaMaintenanceandManagementSystem –TQS.