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What is ICS2?

ICS2 is a new customs pre-arrival security and safety programme.

This updated pre-arrival security and safety programme will support effective risk-based customs controls, while enabling a free flow of legitimate trade across the EU external borders.

What is ICS2?
Import Control System 2 (ICS2)
customs Logistics

Smart Directions is all about keeping the supply chain moving. When we learn of new policy, legislation or logistics protocol, we like to share it with our customers. Keeping a flow of information is just as important as the freight we carry. Here’s what you need to know about Import Control System 2 (ICS2).

ICS2 is a new customs pre-arrival security and safety programme. We really wish we could leave it there, but there’s a lot more where that came from!

This updated pre-arrival security and safety programme will support effective risk-based customs controls, while enabling a free flow of legitimate trade across the EU external borders. It’s a sort of “first defender” in protecting the EU internal market, and EU consumers. Import Control System 2 will remodel the existing process for IT, legal, customs risk management/controls, and trade operational perspectives.

WHAT DOES Import Control System 2 DO?

The aim of ICS2 is to collect data about all goods entering the EU, prior to their arrival. Economic Operators (EOs) will have to declare safety and security data through the Entry Summary Declaration (ENS). The obligation to start filing these declarations will not be the same for all EOs. It will depend heavily on the type of services that they provide in the international movement of goods, and is linked to the three key release dates of ICS2 (15 March 2021, 1 March 2023, and 3 June 2024).

What are the benefits of ICS2?

ICS2 makes the EU customs security and safety more effective and time efficient. In upgrading the current process, ICS2 will:

  1. Increase protection of EU citizens and the internal market against security and safety threats
  2. Allow EU Customs authorities to better identify high-risk consignments and intervene at the most appropriate point in supply chain
  3. Support proportionate, targeted customs measures at the external borders in crisis response scenarios
  4. Facilitate cross-border clearance for the legitimate trade
  5. Simplify the exchange of information between Economic Operators (EOs) and EU Customs Authorities.

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