1st application getting the global ICS certification under registered number ICS – 001

Following the Import Control System (ICS) certification on February, 4th 2010, MGI has successfully carried out the Delta-Presentation tests. MGI has obtained the 1st global ICS certification for its application M-customs, under registered number ICS-001.

The General Directorate of French Customs and Indirect Taxes has issued to MGI the Delta-Presentation approval in addition to the first certification already obtained on the creation/modification of ICS declarations. Delta-Presentation deals with the notification of arrival.
M-customs was officially launched at SITL (the International Week of Transport and Logistics) that took place at Paris Villepinte on 23-26 March 2010.

For this occasion, MGI has welcomed on its stand Mr. Jérôme Fournel, French Customs General Director, and Mr. Jean-Michel Thillier, Deputy Director of Foreign Trade. Mr. François Mahé des Portes, MGI’s President of the Executive Board, presented the application M-customs.
« In a more general framework of computerizing goods transports documents for foreign trade, the ICS and ECS implementation by French Customs is a strategic point for all of us.

Mr. Fournel is a pragmatic person and was extremely interested by the fact that M-customs allowed two ways of exchanges:
- File exchanges between IT systems. This is the way ICS works.

- The user enters data directly in the M-customs form which is then sent to the ICS system. This option is not allowed by ICS.
The access to ICS can be done by everyone without the need for the declarant to be equipped with sophisticated IT material, and let’s be clear, without any trade confidential data being sent to stakeholders that will use them”, has declared Mr. Mahé des Portes.

As a reminder, ICS is the new European transport security and safety regulation that will come into force on January, 1st 2010 and will make compulsory, when importing from a third country, to make a pre-arrival summary declaration before goods arrive at the first European port of entry.

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