Customs Solutions Across Germany

BluJay’s presence in Germany is long-standing, and we provide robust customs management functionality for the country. Our local experts navigate the changing landscape and employ a proven, standardized process to keep you continually compliant with the latest changes to German systems and regulatory changes. We take care of the software so you can focus on your business. Explore our Germany coverage below. 

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Export

Process of declaring goods going to a third-party country. Rules and process varies depending on the country of arrival and status of the goods and could include payment of and taxes, necessity to have permit and licenses, subject to quotas, etc.

Export and Exit

Import

Process of declaring goods coming from a third-party country to make them into free circulation. Rules and process varies depending on the country of departure and status of the goods and could include payment of VAT, duties and taxes, the necessity to have permit and licenses, subject to quotas, etc.

  • EZA – Import for free circulation
  • SumA – Temp storage
  • VZA – Simplified Import Customs declaration
  • EGZ – Supplementary Import Customs Declaration
  • NEE – Subsequent raise, refund or Abatement

Impost

Applies to the importation of low value consignments into the European Union (EU)

NCTS

New Computerised Transit System is an electronic declaration and processing for Union Transit (UT) and Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR). Primarily for road traffic, it enables management and control of all goods (subject to import procedures, taxes, and duties) in transit throughout the European Community and their partners.

  • NCTS-IN
  • NCTS-OUT
  • NCTS-GUAR

EMCS

EMCS Certified by German Customs

Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS) is an EU-wide computer system that is used to record duty suspended movements of excise goods taking place within the EU.

Customs Warehouse

Monitoring and management of all permissible types of customs warehouses, for entries and withdrawals for free circulation. Customs declarations only, with  no inventory management. Simplified registration is possible.

Inward Processing

Simplified customs declaration (vZA) for entry into AV/UV – Inward Processing procedure – and within the billing period the corresponding Supplementary Customs Declaration (EGZ). Simplified registration is possible.

Port Connectivity

Some countries and/or port require the declarant to pass some customs declarations through a (sea or air) port system. Some port requires similar declarations in order to organize their own workload and occupation.

The data collected in ZABIS®-PORT will be forwarded to Dakosy for the Port of Hamburg and to DBH for the Port of Bremen after simple and user-friendly collection.

We are also following the requirements of new port systems when applicable to our customers, such as the FRA-OS platform in Frankfurt airport.

ICS/ECS

Export Control System / Export Security Filling: reduced dataset import or export filling, which must be lodged in advance for safety and security purpose.

Arrival Notification & Final Exit Request

Import Control System / Import Security Filling (ICS/ eSuma): reduced dataset import or export filling, which must be lodged in advance for safety and security purposes.

Unified Customs Schema (UCS)

Available for NCTS-IN/NCTS-OUT in CM-ZABIS.

UCS is BluJay’s purpose-built schema for data interface, that provides single connectivity from external systems to Customs Management. The UCS consolidates all elements of the declarations datasets, including duplicates when appropriate, and all possible steps of the customs workflow are natively in the schemas.

Long-standing expertise in Germany

Customs Management-ZABIS

In close partnership with German Customs over the past two decades, BluJay has built the market-leading customs platform for German companies seeking best practices and compliance to German requirements. As German customs modernizes their infrastructure and systems, BluJay supports adoption of the data and document transmission and other requirements you need. CM-ZABIS® is continually updated as German Customs issues legal and compliance changes and upgrades, including ATLAS, NCTS, EMCS, AES, Zelos. CM-ZABIS automates users’ customs knowledge, so you can focus on the high-end and critical decisions of your business.