Question for written answer  E-001907/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Tobiasz Bocheński (ECR)

The Commission plans to eliminate the current relief from customs duties for consignments from outside the EU with a value of less than EUR 150. Currently, such consignments are subject to VAT but not customs duties. The aim of the planned reform is to reduce the practice of under-declaring the value of goods in order to avoid customs duties and to strengthen fair competition in the EU market.

As part of its work on the reform of the Customs Union, the Commission foresees that all consignments from outside the EU will be subject to customs duties, regardless of their value. The current proposed date for the entry into force of these amendments is 1 March 2028.

Bearing in mind the interests of the European e-commerce industry and the need to tighten up the system for collecting customs duties and VAT on imports, I would ask you to answer the following question:

Is the Commission in a position to speed up the implementation of the proposed amendments, in particular the abolition of the EUR 150 customs threshold, so that they can be introduced as early as January 2026?

Submitted: 13.5.2025

Last updated: 20 May 2025