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Figure 2.10. AEO Application Process
Monitoring
Check on
completeness
Customs AEO Applicant
Preliminary checks
Acceptance
Application
Call to complete
No acceptance
Acceptance
Collaborative
exchange of
information
Inform applicant
Inform
AEO/applicant
Exchange information,
Information procedure,
Consultation procedure
Elaborating audit
plan
Audit
Final report and audit
documentation
Final decision
AEO certificate Rejection
Collecting, analyzing
information
Risk assessment
Source: Author’s own design using European Commission (2012)
 The maximum delay before issuing an AEO certificate is 90 calendar days as from the
reception of the application. Upon acceptance, the competent Customs Authority
informs all EU Member States of the accepted application by uploading the application
in the central EU AEO system within 5 days.
 Other Member States can consult the database within 35 working days to inform AEO
Section of any comments they may wish to make in relation to individual applications.
 The competent AEO authority refers accepted applications to a control officer in the
relevant region or Large Cases Division to evaluate the entitlement of the economic