Press Release: Customs: EU and US adopt measures to strengthen maritime container security

The EU and the US agreed on the first measures contributing to strengthening the security of maritime container transport, 16 November 2004. The measures are aimed at facilitating legitimate trade through mutually acceptable reciprocal security standards and industry partnership programmes. They were adopted in the framework of the agreement to extend the EU/US Customs Agreement to include trade security co-operation, signed in Washington on 22 April 2004.