Transcript Customs system „Celina”

Roles and
responsibilities
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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.
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,
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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One of the most important elements that have the essential
influence on the organization of the future Polish Customs
Administration is informatization. The Polish Customs Administration
has achieved recently a significant progress in computerization of
customs administration and interconnectivity of the customs IT
systems. These tools will also play a supporting role in the context of
border controls. We treat this issue with the highest priority and the
utmost care. The Polish Customs Administration is currently working
on the following IT systems.
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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.
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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.
This is the key system. The system has successfully passed in March
2003 through The first stage of implementation, in fact ahead of the
Planned deadline. The system is now implemented and operational in
20 locations. All traders, who are technically prepared to do so, submit
customs declarations electronically. On average this already refers
today to more than 80-90% of declarations (depending on particular
location).
The second stage of implementation currently under realization, will
cover 94 locations altogether, including all customs offices, as well as
branches and locations of key importance For customs operations after
Poland’s accession to the European Union, Located mainly on our
eastern and northern border. The third and final stage of the roll out will
cover all remaining locations that will still operate after structural
change implemented due to the accession. It is foreseen that full
exploitation will start at the end of the year. It is also planned that there
will be an interface between NCTS and CELINA system. According to
the last decisions INTRASTAT statistical subsystem will be included in
CELINA system.
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).
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The main functionality of the ICDTS system is
located in the operational layer. At present this
layer comprises 5 systems:
 Declaration Processing System Celina,
 Accounting and Duty Clearing System ZEFIR,
 Transit System –NCTS,
 EU Internal Trade StatisticsSystem –Intrastat,
 Tariff Quota Maintenanceand ManagementSystem –TQS.