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dossier	COM(2012)464 - Action programme for customs in the EU for the period 2014-2020 (Customs 2020) and repealing Decision N°624/2007/EC.
document	COM(2012)464
date	December 11, 2013

ANNEX I

Indicators

The achievement of the specific objectives referred to in Article 5(2) shall be measured on the basis of the following indicators:

(a)

the feedback from participants in actions under the Programme and users of the Programme index which will measure the perception of Programme stakeholders regarding the impact of the actions under the Programme inter alia in terms of:

(i)	networking impact of the actions under the Programme;

(ii)	cooperation impact of actions under the Programme;

(b)	the number of guidelines and recommendations issued following activities under the Programme relating to modern and harmonised approaches to customs procedures;

(c)	the Common Communication Network for the European Information Systems Indicator, which will measure the availability of the common network which is indispensable for the running of the customs-related European Information Systems. The network should be available 98 % of the time;

(d)

the Union Law and Policy Application and Implementation Index, which will measure the progress in the preparation, application and implementation of Union law and policy in the field of customs inter alia on the basis of:

(i)	the number of actions under the Programme organised in this area, in particular relating to the protection of intellectual property rights, the issues of safety and security, the fight against fraud and the security in the supply chain;

(ii)	the number of recommendations issued following those actions;

(e)	the European Information System Availability Indicator, which will measure the availability of the Union components of IT customs applications. These should be available 97 % of the time during business hours and 95 % of the time otherwise;

(f)

the Best Practices and Guideline Index, which will measure the evolution in the identification, development, sharing and application of best working practices and administrative procedures inter alia on the basis of:

(i)	the number of actions under the Programme organised in this area;

(ii)	the number of guidelines and best practices shared;

(g)

the Learning Index, which will measure the progress resulting from actions under the Programme aiming to reinforce skills and competences of customs officials, inter alia on the basis of:

(i)	the number of officials trained by using common training material of the Union;

(ii)	the number of times Programme eLearning modules were downloaded;

(h)	the Cooperation with third parties Indicator, which will establish how the Programme supports authorities other than Member States' customs authorities by measuring the number of actions under the Programme supporting that objective.

ANNEX II

European Information Systems and their Union and non-Union components

The European Information Systems are the following:

(1)	the common communications network/common systems interface (CCN/CSI – CCN2), CCN mail3, the CSI bridge, the http bridge, CCN LDAP and related tools, CCN web portal, CCN monitoring;

(2)

supporting systems, in particular the application configuration tool for CCN, the activity reporting tool (ART2), Taxud electronic management of project online (TEMPO), service management tool (SMT), the user management system (UM), the BPM system, the availability dashboard and AvDB, IT service management portal, directory and user access management;

(3)	Programmes information and communication space (PICS);

(4)

the customs movement systems, in particular the (New) Computerised Transit System ((N)CTS), NCTS TIR for Russia, the Export Control System (ECS) and the Import Control system (ICS). The following applications/components are supporting these systems: the system to exchange data with third countries (SPEED bridge), the SPEED Edifact Converter Node (SPEED-ECN), the Standard SPEED Test Application (SSTA), the Standard Transit Test Application (STTA), the Transit Test Application (TTA), the Central Services/Reference Data (CSRD2) and the Central Services/Management Information System (CS/MIS);

(5)	the Community Risk Management System (CRMS) covering the Risk Information Forms (RIF) and the Common Profiles CPCA functional domains;

(6)

the Economic Operators System (EOS) covering the Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI), the Authorised Economic Operators (AEO), the Regular Shipping Services (RSS) and the mutual recognition with partner countries functional domains. The Generic Web Service is a support component for this system;

(7)

the tariff system (TARIC3) which is a reference data system for other applications such as the quota management system (QUOTA2), the surveillance management and monitoring system (SURV2), the European Binding Tariff Information system (EBTI3) the European Customs Inventory of Chemical Substances (ECICS2). The Combined Nomenclature (CN) and the suspensions (Suspensions) applications are managing legal information with a direct link to the tariff system;

(8)	the applications for control purposes, in particular the Specimen Management System (SMS) and the Information System for Processing Procedures (ISPP);

(9)	the anti-COunterfeit and anti-PIracy System (COPIS);

(10)	the Data Dissemination System (DDS2) managing all information which is accessible to the public via the Internet;

(11)	the Anti-Fraud Information System (AFIS); and

(12)	any other systems included in the multiannual strategic plan provided for in Article 8(2) of Decision No 70/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), and the successors of that plan.

The Union components of the European Information Systems are:

(1)	IT assets such as the hardware, the software and the network connections of the systems, including the associated data infrastructure;

(2)	IT services necessary to support the development, the maintenance, the improvement and the operation of the systems; and

(3)	any other elements which, for reasons of efficiency, security and rationalisation, are identified by the Commission as common to participating countries.

The non-Union components of the European Information Systems are all those components which are not identified as Union components in Section B.

(1) Decision No 70/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on a paperless environment for customs and trade (OJ L 23, 26.1.2008, p. 21).

ANNEX III

Indicative allocation of funds

The indicative allocation of funds to eligible actions listed in Article 7 is the following:

Types of action	Share of the financial envelope (in %)
Joint actions	maximum 20 %
IT capacity building	at least 75 %
Human competency building	maximum 5 %