Civil & Administrative

#BUDD9430003AOrder of 28 February 1994 Setting Opening and Closing Hours for Customs Offices

🇫🇷France··Other·Low Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This French regulation establishes the specific opening and closing times for customs offices dealing with international tourism, commercial traffic, and local border traffic. It ensures that customs offices at train stations, ports, and airports coordinate hours with transport schedules, and sets specific times for processing international transit goods. Closure for monthly accounting is specified for customs administrative purposes.

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Key Changes

  • Sets specific opening and closing hours for customs offices handling different types of traffic.
  • Coordinates customs office hours at transport hubs with transportation schedules.
  • Establishes closing times for monthly accounting purposes.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Customs offices must operate during opening and closing hours as specified in the attached table (Tableau annexe) for international tourism, commercial traffic, and local border traffic

French customs offices (Bureaux des douanes)
operational
high

International transit goods (TIR carnets, community transit, or common transit) must have formalities completed only during the opening hours designated for international tourism at border customs offices

French customs offices at geographical borders
operational
high

TIR regime formalities must be completed only on working days, even if the customs office is open for other international tourism traffic

French customs offices processing TIR carnets
prohibition
high

Customs offices controlling international train stations, ports, or airports must set their international tourism opening hours according to passenger train schedules, ship arrivals/departures, and aircraft arrivals/departures

French customs offices at international transport hubs
operational
medium

Monthly accounting closure must occur in the afternoon of the last working day preceding the 20th of each month, with possibility to defer to the 17th or 18th due to calendar constraints

French customs offices (Douanes et droits indirects)
operational

Affected Parties

Customs officesInternational travelers

Tags

customs,regulation,administrative hours