Customs systems
ATLAS in Germany, DMS in the Netherlands, and the EU Customs Data Hub that the customs reform brings.
What this category answers
Where a declaration goes once it is prepared: the German ATLAS and the Dutch DMS, what they share and where they differ, and what the EU customs reform of 2026 changes, with the dates from the regulation itself. For brokers working on both sides of the border in the years before the EU Customs Data Hub becomes mandatory, on 1 March 2034 [1].
Sources
- 1Regulation (EU) 2026/2108 establishing the Union Customs Code and the European Union Customs Authority, Article 285, Official Journal of the European Union, 2026-09-19. Read 2026-09-26.
Customs systems guides
- ATLAS and DMS: the German and Dutch systemsGermany lodges import declarations in ATLAS, the Netherlands in DMS. Both carry the EU data set of the Union Customs Code, each with national rules on top.
- The EU customs reform and the data hubRegulation (EU) 2026/2108 replaces Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 from 21 September 2027, and its EU Customs Data Hub is mandatory for all from 1 March 2034.
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