“Improvement of the National Customs Agency’s fundamental information systems for providing data and services - BICIS (Phase 2)”

Effectiveness, simplification and facilitation of trade are the most important principles of the Modernized Community Customs Code – Regulation (EC) No. 952/2013, entering into force on 1.5.2016. The new code aims to rationalize and simplify customs legislation and procedures, to create conditions for more effective customs operations respecting the modern requirements, to create a new electronic paperless customs environment and to facilitate customs procedures for the legitimate trade. The global legislation reform and the implementation of entirely electronic data exchange between customs and trade in EU, will transform the customs and customs-related processes and also the functioning of the Customs Union as a whole. The changes of customs business processes require a change of the electronic customs systems. Taking into account the obligations of Bulgarian National Customs Agency, arising from EC initiatives e-customs and e-excise, Republic of Bulgaria e-Government national strategy 2014-2020 and Bulgarian National Customs Agency Strategy 2017-2020 and for the implementation of e-Customs sectoral strategy 2016-2025 and Roadmap of the e-Customs sectoral strategy, the project results to be achieved are: -Harmonization of processes and national information systems, according to EU requirements; -Implementation of electronic on-line interfaces for data exchange between external national and EU systems; -Improving the electronic environment for services and communications with citizens and economic operators. These aims will be reached through the implementation of Phase 2 of BICIS project, including the following stages and measures from the Roadmap of the e-Customs sectoral strategy: -Stage 4 (Measures 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8) of Phase 2 (2019-2021) to Target area “Development of the Customs Information System – BICIS 2020” and Measure 2.2 of Stage 2 to Target area “Development of a Reference-Analytical Platform).

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