At present the Customs Technical Laboratory (CTL) has its own status and position within the organizational structure of the Czech Customs Administration. Their activities became a necessary condition in customs business by establishing nature, tariff classification, origin, and value of goods in order to implement for customs duties and revenue collection, commercial policy, antidumping, and agricultural goods control. Nowadays the Customs Technical Laboratories have found their place also in the non-fiscal areas such as the protection of health and security, economy, and environment on the all European scale in the protection of citizens, their health and work (e.g. inspection of goods suspected to the infringement of Intellectual Property Rights). Customs Technical Laboratories are also involved in the fight against terrorism (e.g. in examination of dual used goods and technologies and high value commodities such as e.g. diamonds in the framework of so called Kimberly process).
A majority of examined samples are definitely goods liable to excise tax (e.g. petroleum products, alcohol, tobacco, fiscal tapes on tobacco and alcoholic products), the commodities with the different customs duty and value added tax (e.g. footwear, pharmaceuticals, chemical products etc.) and also agricultural products and foodstuffs e.g. activity of CTL in examination of good for purpose of Common Agriculture Policy of EU.
The important role and good functioning of CTL became known also within other bodies of other state authorities. In addition, CTL´s have gained contacts and co-operate with scientific institutes, universities and R&D departments in the industry, and on the international level in the framework of the activities of the Group of European Customs Laboratories.
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