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"Madam President, I welcome the own-initiative report by my colleague Mr Audy, which looks at the importance of rigorously implementing customs procedures for the proper functioning of the internal market. Sadly, our market is more and more distorted by illegal imports of goods from third countries. This concerns not just smuggling, counterfeiting and evading customs duties: our market is also flooded with goods that do not meet the European safety standards, although many of them bear the compliance mark. Unfortunately, customs authorities do not have enough resources to carry out sufficient border controls. Our committee was able to witness in Antwerp how only one half of one percent of containers are checked each day. All of this undermines trust in the internal market and hurts consumers as well as European producers who cannot cope with such unfair competition on their own. Although our customs union has been around for 40 years, the Member States still do not apply customs regulations in a sufficiently uniform manner. For example, there are significant differences in the rules on tariff classification, value and origin – preferential and non-preferential – of goods. I agree with the rapporteur that the situation would benefit from greater harmonisation. The Commission should also respond to the justified objections with regard to the uniform application of the value-added criterion, such as the objections raised by the textiles industry. Overly strict and complex customs regulations impede access to international trade for small and medium-sized enterprises in particular. It is obvious that European competitiveness would benefit from simplification, modernisation and harmonisation of the rules and procedures with regard to the import and export of goods."@en1
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