Brussels, 26/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The lack of diligence on the part of the national customs authorities when they accept an insufficient guarantee to cover the customs debt arising from a group of external Community transit operations may give rise to a “special situation” justifying the remission of a customs debt.
That is the substance of the ruling delivered on Thursday 22 March in a case (C-506/09 P) involving the European Commission, the Portuguese state and Portuguese...