Courses

Advanced, practitioner-grade training. Self-paced modules with downloadable reference annexes.

Managing Customs Compliance in E-Commerce

The EU Customs Union faces an unprecedented challenge: billions of low-value e-commerce parcels flooding across its borders, overwhelming legacy models built for a world of structured B2B trade. This four-hour course equips compliance professionals with the legal, operational and strategic tools to navigate AEO, ICS2, sanctions, enforcement risk, and the landmark 2026 reform — including the removal of the €150 de minimis on 1 July 2026.

Part I — A Changing Trade Landscape From a culture of compliance and the Customs Union to the explosive growth of low-value cross-border e-commerce. Part II — SafetySecurity and Protection Since 9/11customs balances enforcement and facilitation — through AEOICS2VAT reformthe Green Agendasanctions and tariffs. Part III — Enforcement and Risk How the EU and its Member States detect fraudprosecute crime and manage risk — and why divergence between them is a strategic threat. Part IV — Mitigating Risk A practicalsix-element model for building compliance into the organisation — from culture and representation to screening and competency. Part V — The 2026 Customs Reform From foresight and the Wise Persons Group to five pillars and the removal of the €150 de minimis on 1 July 2026.

Intermediate–Advanced

The new UCC: implementation primer

The EU customs system is undergoing its most significant transformation since 1968. Five billion-plus low-value parcels enter the EU annually. From 1 July 2026, every one of them is a customs event. The new Union Customs Code, agreed in March 2026, mandates a data-driven, AI-supported, federated governance architecture — built around the EU Customs Data Hub, EUCA, the Single Window environment and the Trust & Check Trader regime. This course, designed by the Université de Liège Faculty of Law and delivered by six practitioners who build and operate these systems, connects law to machinery: "the legislation requires X — here is how the technology makes X possible." Six modules trace a single B2C e-commerce parcel — CDG to Eindhoven, under post-1 July 2026 rules — from its first data element through the risk engine, the Single Window, AI-driven screening and the synthesis that maps every layer into one picture. By the end, participants can answer the course's central question from six different vantage points — and navigate the digital customs landscape with confidence, whether they come from law, logistics, compliance, IT or policy.

Introduction — Walter Van der Meiren (UPS Europe / ULiège): the scale problemthe three-stage shiftthe reform's four pillars M1 — Noha Bayoumi (CHAMP Cargosystems): EU Customs Data ModelAnnexes A/BICS2 architecturesingle data submission M2 — Jérôme Lorig (CHAMP Cargosystems): UCC Work Programmeeight IT systemsPLACI/Yemen origin storythe national patchwork problem M3 — Walter Van der Meiren: EU Customs Data Hubevent-driven architectureTrust & CheckIOSS RTU pilotAI governance M4 — Frank Janssens (World Bank / former DG TAXUD): Single WindowCSW-CERTEXnon-customs formalitiesEUCA governance M5 — Scott Friedman (Altana / former DHS): commercial AIfederated supply-chain networksDigital Product Passportsthe public/private boundary M6 — Frank Heijmann (NL Permanent RepresentationnUCC lead negotiator) + all: interactive synthesisparcel traced end to end