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The Automatic Export System (AES), Phase 1 manages electronically the export and exit formalities performed by customs officials and economic operators when goods leave the customs territory of the Union.

The EU’s new advance cargo information system “Import Control System 2 (ICS2)” ensures the security of European citizens and of the single market by supporting adequate risk-based customs controls. The End-to-End (E2E) testing campaign is designed to execute the ICS2 business workflow in a way that is as close as possible to real business operations, to ensure that the IT system of the economic operators are functioning properly.

Regulation (EU) 2022/2399 establishing the EU Single Window Environment for Customs was entered into force in November 2022. This Regulation provides a new legal framework to improve information sharing and digital cooperation between customs authorities and other government authorities (known as partner competent authorities) in charge of enforcing non-customs regulatory formalities at the EU border in areas such as health and safety, environmental protection, food and product safety, agriculture, etc. This, in turn, will allow economic operators to clear certain customs formalities more easily.