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Who is a customs officer in France (French Customs – Douanes)?
Customs officials manage the flow of goods through monitoring commercial transactions and indirect taxes (alcohol, tobacco, and oil products), as well as surveillance of border crossings and also combating fraud, promoting economic activity, and collecting taxes.
What are the duties/responsibility of a French Customs Officer?
- Stopping the admission into France of strategic, radioactive, harmful, or non-compliant products with European norms, or battling maritime pollution.
- Combating drug, weapon, cultural property, and endangered animal and plant species trafficking,
- With a particular focus on maintaining compliance with quality and safety rules for industrial products imported from outside the EU (document and product control, laboratory analyzes)
- providing customized services for businesses, such as individualized guidance and simplified procedures to benefit the economic sectors it regulates (viticulture, transport, energy)
- Producing statistics on France’s overseas commerce in goods: these data are useful to both public bodies and businesses.
- Custom officer collects VAT on products imported from countries outside the European Union;
- excise charges, i.e. indirect taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and petroleum products;
- customs duties on entry into the European Union
Salary of the customs officer in France
In Pau, France, the average gross income for a customs officer is 39 796 € or 19 € per hour. This is 13% less than the average customs officer income in France (-5 951 Euros).
Eligibility/Qualification to become a Custom officer
- To apply for a senior customs official position in external competition,
- You must have a patent national diploma or an equivalent qualification and meet a number of requirements
- Including nationality, physical fitness, national service, or JDC, as well as pass an administrative investigation
There are three stages to the common category C competition:
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A written pre-admissibility test
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A written eligibility test,
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An oral admission test
For more information, you can check here.
France customs official website: https://www.douane.gouv.fr/
List of customs office in France
Check the custom office around the France address, phone, email and more through the above link.
