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Detection of illicit trade
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Location:EU 27
Funding agency:
Grantmaking entity: European Anti-Fraud Office
Grantmaking entity type:Development Institution
Description
Detection of illicit trade
TOPIC ID: EUAF-2024-TA-04
Type of grant: Call for proposals
General information
Programme: Union Anti-fraud Programme (EUAF)
Call: Technical Assistance (EUAF-2024-TA)
Type of action: EUAF-PJG EUAF Project Grants
Type of MGA: EUAF Action Grant Budget-Based [EUAF-AG]
Status: Forthcoming
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned Opening Date: 29 February 2024
Deadline dates: 07 May 2024 17:00 (Brussels time)
Topic description
ExpectedOutcome:Strengthening and improving beneficiaries’ (in particular, customs authorities’) technical capacity to detect suspicious movements and verify such movements, including by checking trucks, containers and other types of vehicles and means of transport. This will be measured by the number of new features in IT systems or the number of verifications and ‘hits’ following the use of the new equipment.
Scope:The Commission will support the purchase and maintenance of equipment and IT tools to strengthen beneficiaries’ operational and technical capacity to detect smuggled and counterfeited goods, including cigarettes and tobacco, imported into the Union with the intention of evading VAT, customs duties and/or excise taxes. Specialised training to enable staff to operate these tools must be included as part of the action.
To avoid any duplication in Union support, the UAFP targets the acquisition of equipment: (a) that does not fall under the scope of the Customs Control Equipment Instrument (CCEI); or (b) in case the equipment does fall under the scope of the CCEI, whereby the beneficiaries are different authorities from those targeted by the CCEI.
Conditions
1.Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document
Proposal page limits and layout:described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries:described in section 6 of of the call document
3. Other eligibility conditions:described in section 6 of the call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion:described insection 7 of the call document
5.Evaluation and award:
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds:described in section 9 of the call document
- Submission and evaluation processes:describedsection 8 of the call document and theOnline Manual
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement:described in section 4 of the call document
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants:describedin section 10 of the call document
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