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The Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes (French: Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects, DGDDI), commonly known as les douanes (Customs), is the customs service of the French Republic. It is responsible for levying indirect taxes, preventing smuggling, surveilling borders and investigating counterfeit money.
The Direction nationale du renseignement et des enquêtes douanières (DNRED; English: "National Directorate of the Intelligence and Customs Investigations") is a French intelligence agency founded on 1 March 1988. DNRED's mission is to gather, centralise, process and disseminate information of customs origin.
The French customs coastguard patrol boat Jacques Oudart Fourmentin based in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer. In order to carry out its missions, the Coastguard Service of the French Customs has intervention and interception resources, including 18 speedboats and patrol boats sailing within 200 nautical miles and 13 coastal speedboats that operate ...
French customs said they had seized the "aphrodisiac honey" after checks on 31,000 tonnes of honey consignments mainly entering by ship from countries including Malaysia, Turkey, Tunisia and Thailand.
The following is a list of border crossing points in France (French: points de passages frontaliers, or "PPF") forming the external border of the Schengen Area.By contrast, the term points de passages autorisés ("PPA") refers to the crossing points at the border between France and other Schengen countries (i.e. internal borders of the Schengen Area).
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The Port of Calais was the first cable ship port in Europe and is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic. [3]After the Treaty of Le Touquet was signed by France and the UK on 4 February 2003, juxtaposed controls were established in the port.
The Musée national des douanes is a national museum on the history of French customs located at Place de la Bourse in the city of Bordeaux, France. The building was built in the 18th century to receive the new Ferme générale. [1] The museum was inaugurated in 1984, within the grounds of the Hôtel des Douanes in Bordeaux. [2]