Highlights - Vote on a regulation on the financial instrument for Customs Control Equipment - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

This new financial tool intends to support the acquisition by Member States of state-of-the-art customs equipment, with a view to contributing to the harmonisation of the way in which customs controls are performed in different Member States by providing them with equivalent material. The instrument is part of the Multiannual Financial Framework and will therefore run for the next seven years. The recommendation was adopted with 44 votes in favour, 0 against and 1 abstention.