List of customs abbreviations
The list of customs abbreviations contains abbreviations of the German Federal Customs Administration , the Federal Customs Administration and the Austrian Customs Administration and Customs Guard . Outdated abbreviations (e.g. from the time of National Socialism or from the customs administration of the GDR ) are also included here.
In some cases, the information in brackets indicates the origin :
DE = Germany (e.g. Reichszollverwaltung, Bundeszollverwaltung )
AT = Austria (customs administration, customs guard )
CH = Switzerland ( Eidgenössische Zollverwaltung , Grenzwachtkorps )
EU = European Union
GDR = German Democratic Republic (1949– 1990)
A.
- AA = export declaration (DE)
- AbfSt = dispatch point (DE)
- AE = export declaration (outdated, the abbreviation originally comes from the "export declaration ", DE)
- AE 302 = export declaration under troop customs law (DE)
- AEAO-Zoll = application decree for the tax code (customs) (outdated, DE)
- AES = Automated Export System ( ATLAS export)
- ACP = African, Caribbean, Pacific Areas; see ACP countries
- AO = Tax Code (DE)
- APS = General System of Preferences (DE)
- ASV = covering letter procedure
- ATLAS = Automated Tariff and Local Customs Processing System (DE)
- AV = inward processing (EU)
- AWG = Foreign Trade Act (DE)
- AWV = Foreign Trade Ordinance (DE)
- AZKW = Office for Customs and Control of Goods Movement (GDR)
B.
- BABZV = Procurement Office of the Federal Customs Administration (DE)
- BAD = company medical service, office for medical care and support for the customs administration (DE)
- BDZ = German Customs and Finance Union (DE)
- BE = authorized recipient (DE)
- BENGALI = Federal Unified Border Alert List (Enforcement) (DE)
- BFD = Federal Finance Directorate (DE)
- BFV = Federal Finance Administration (DE)
- BillBZ = fight against illegal employment by customs (outdated, DE)
- BO = Distillery Regulations (DE)
- BrStV = Spirits Tax Ordinance (DE)
- BVD = accompanying administrative document (DE)
- BWZ = Education and Science Center of the Federal Finance Administration
- BzbV = civil servant for special use (DE)
C.
- Carnet TIR and Carnet ATA
- CITES = Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of the Wild Fauna and Flora (Washington Convention on Endangered Species )
D.
- DEBBI - decentralized participant assessment (clearance, DE)
E.
- EA = Approved Exporter
- E-dec = from "electronic declaration": software tool for standardizing existing IT-based procedures (CH)
- EORI = Economic Operators' Registration and Identification System, successor to the customs number (DE) at EU level
- EUR 1 = a movement certificate
- EVZTA = European binding tariff information (also called EBTI: European Binding Tariff Information)
- EZV = Federal Customs Administration (CH)
F.
- FAnw = financial candidate (DE; until July 1, 2009, successor is the official title ZIAnw)
- FKS = Financial Control of Undeclared Work (DE)
- Form A (also "UZ Form A") = a certificate of origin for goods from certain countries (DE)
G
- GAD = border inspection service (DE; outdated, now: KEG)
- GADDA = Instructions for the Border Inspection Service (DE)
- GASt = border inspection agency (DE, outdated)
- GASt S = border inspection post with special tasks (DE; outdated)
- GASt F = border inspection post radio (DE; outdated; identical to SprFuZ = radio control center)
- GASt (mot.) = Motorized border inspection post (DE; outdated / abolished)
- GATS = General Agreement on Trade in Services
- GATT = General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GEA = Joint Investigation Groups Work (DE)
- GER = Joint Drug Investigation Group (DE)
- GFG = Joint Financial Investigation Group (DE)
- GO-ÖB = rules of procedure for the local authorities of the Federal Customs Administration (DE, successor to the HGO)
- GO-MB = rules of procedure for the intermediate authorities of the Federal Customs Administration (DE, successor to OFDGO)
- GWK = Border Guard Corps (CH)
- GWK I = Command of the Border Guard Corps in Basel (CH)
- GWK II = Command of the Border Guard Corps in Schaffhausen (CH)
- GWK III = Command of the Border Guard in Geneva (CH)
- GWK IV = Command of the Border Guard in Lugano / Paradiso (CH)
- GZD = General Customs Directorate
H
- HGO = Rules of Procedure for the main customs offices (DE, outdated. Successor since 2008: GO-ÖB)
- HZA = main customs office (DE, AT)
I.
- IWM = Information and Knowledge Management Customs (DE)
K
- KAB = cost of cover letter book
- KEF = Airport Control Unit
- KEfü = control unit airport surveillance
- KEFR = Airport Passenger Traffic Control Unit
- KEG = control unit near the border area (DE; formerly GAD )
- KEP = Control Unit Prevention of Undeclared Work (DE, formerly Prevention of VCS )
- KEZB = customs boat control unit (DE; water customs )
- KEV = Traffic Routes Control Unit (DE, formerly MKG )
- KOBRA = control on export (DE)
L.
- LIB-S = local IT officer -system support- (local administrator) (DE)
- LIB-A = local IT officer -user support- (DE)
- LVB = local procedural officer (local contact person for customs officers on specific issues relating to specialist procedures, e.g. ATLAS ) (DE)
- LZA = long-term archive
M.
- MKG = Mobile Control Group (DE; outdated, now: KEV)
- MZVE = Mobile Customs Reinforcement Unit (DE, obsolete)
N
- NZA = secondary customs office (AT)
- NZZSt = secondary customs office (DE)
O
- OEZ = observation unit customs (DE)
- OFD = Oberfinanzdirektion (DE outdated)
- OFDGO = rules of procedure for the regional finance directorates (DE outdated; replaced by the rules of procedure for the intermediate authorities of the Federal Customs Administration, GO-MB)
- OK = organized crime
- Owi (actually: OWi) = administrative offense
- OWiG = Law on Administrative Offenses (DE)
- OZD = Oberzolldirektion (CH)
- OZL = open customs warehouse (DE outdated)
P
- PSZ = Project Structural Development Customs (DE)
- PV = outward processing
R.
- RAO = Reich Tax Code (DE, AT, Third Reich)
- RF = Legal and technical supervision unit at the BFD'en (DE)
- RFV = Reich Finance Administration (DE, AT, Third Reich)
- RZV = Reich Customs Administration (DE, AT, Third Reich)
S.
- SG = subject area (of a main customs office or customs investigation office, DE)
- SprFuZ = radio control center (DE; identical to GASt F = border inspection post radio)
T
- T-paper = dispatch declaration such as B. T1, T2 T2L, T2LF (DE)
- TIR = Transports Internationaux Routiers (see also Carnet )
U
- UE = declaration of origin on the invoice
- UGZ = Customs Support Group (DE)
- OCT = Overseas Countries and Territories
- uvZTA = non-binding customs tariff information for sales tax purposes
- UZ = Certificate of Origin (DE)
- UZ = immediate compulsion (DE)
- UZwG = law on direct coercion when exercising public authority by federal enforcement officers (DE)
V
- VAV = simplified registration procedure (DE, formerly: ZNV)
- VGAD = reinforced border inspection service (DE, Third Reich, see Customs Border Guard )
- VuB = prohibitions and restrictions (DE, VuB rules )
- VSt = consumption tax
- VZKom = representative of a customs commissioner (representative of the head of a customs commissioner's office , out of date, DE)
- BTI = binding customs tariff information
W.
- WVB = movement certificate (DE)
- WZD = water customs services (DE, out of date, now: KE See)
Z
- z. A. = For employment, civil servant within the career law probation period (DE)
- ZA = customs office (DE, AT, CH)
- ZA = approved exporter
- ZAI = Customs Inspector (DE; since July 1, 2009, replaced the official title ZBI)
- ZAM, ZAMin, ZAF = Zollamtmann, Zollamtmännin (this strange special form ran in parallel some time after the introduction of the name "ZAF"), Zollamtfrau (DE)
- ZAnw = customs candidate (DE; until July 1, 2009, successor is the official title ZSAnw)
- ZAR, ZARin = Customs Office Councilor (DE)
- Zaß = inch assistant (DE, obsolete)
- ZBI = Customs Inspector (DE)
- ZE = approved recipient (shipping method)
- ZF = central specialist unit (every BFD has a ZF; DE)
- ZFA = Customs Investigation Office (DE)
- ZFdG = Customs Investigation Service Act (DE)
- ZFL = bonded warehouse (CH)
- ZGS = Customs Border Guard (DE, Third Reich)
- ZGD = Customs Border Service (DE)
- ZHS = General Customs Secretary (DE)
- ZI, ZIin = customs inspector (DE)
- ZI = Customs Inspectorate (CH)
- ZID = Center for Information and Data Technology of the Federal Finance Administration (DE, outdated)
- ZIVIT = Center for Information Processing and Information Technology (DE, successor to ZID)
- ZK = Customs Code (EU)
- ZK-DVO = Customs Code Implementation Regulation (EU)
- ZKA = Customs Criminal Police Office (successor to ZKI, DE)
- ZKI = Zollkriminalinstitut (outdated, DE)
- ZKom = Customs Commissioner (outdated, DE)
- ZKom = Customs Commissioner (head of a customs commissioner's office , out of date, DE)
- ZL = customs warehouse
- ZLA = Zolllehranstalt (DE)
- ZNA = customs clearance after recording (DE, outdated, now: ASV)
- ZOAR, ZOARin = Zolloberamtsrat, customs official councilor (DE)
- ZOI, ZOIin = Customs Inspector , Customs Inspector (DE)
- ZORA = Central Office for Risk Analysis Customs (DE)
- ZOS = Customs Secretary (DE)
- ZPLA = Customs Technical Examination and Training Institute (DE; until 2008, now BWZ headquarters)
- ZS = Customs Secretary (DE)
- ZSAnw = trainee customs secretary (DE; since July 1, 2009, replaced the official title ZAnw)
- ZSBI = Customs Ship Operations Inspector (DE, water customs )
- ZSHS = Main Secretary of Customs Ship (DE, water customs )
- ZSOS = Customs Ship Secretary (DE, water customs )
- ZUZ = Central Customs Support Group (DE)
- ZV = approved consignor (shipping procedure)
- ZVB = Customs enforcement officer
- ZVerB = customs liaison officer
- ZZSt = customs paying office (DE)