Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures. 1. Member States, undertake to incorporate in their customs laws, provisions designed to simplify customs procedures in accordance with internationally accepted standards, recommendations and guidelines particularly those which are contained in the International Instruments of: - the World Customs Organisation (WCO); - the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE); - the International Maritime Organisation (IMO); - the International Civil Aviation Association (ICAO); - the international Standards Organisation (ISO); - the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); and - the International Air Transport Association (IATA). 2. Member States undertake to adopt in their customs laws common principles for the Customs procedures which, in the opinion of CMT, are particularly important in intra-Community trade including: (a) customs formalities applicable to commercial means of transport; (b) clearance for home use; (c) outright exportation; (d) customs transit; (e) drawback; (f) temporary admission, subject to re-export in the same Member State; (g) temporary admission for inward processing; (h) free zones; (i) postal traffic. 3. Member States undertake to develop a single customs document as support of all customs procedures, in intra-Community trade as well as in trade with third countries.
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Sources: Treaty of the South African Development Community, Treaty of the South African Development Community