Au cours de son intervention, le Commissaire en charge de la fiscalité et de l'union douanière, après avoir rappelé "que le droit douanier repose sur un corps de règlements communautaires" a annoncé que "la prochaine étape sera le regroupement de ces règles dans un corps unique : "le Code des douanes communautaires".
In her address, Mrs Scrivener, who is the Member of the Commission with special responsiblity for taxation and customs union, reminded the meeting that "customs law is based on a body of Community rules," and went on to say that "the next stage will be to group these rules in a single corpus: the Community Customs Code".