A chapter of the Confiad book was closed.It was mentioning an impact that was huge and can be summed up in five figures:

- a loss of turnover of 5.892.6OO.OOO ecus

- a loss of 63.1OO jobs

- a loss for companies as far as redundancy and dismissal are concerned 929.2OO.OOO ecus

- cost of retraining 14OO million ecus

No need to explain the dimension of the lobbying including among others several press conferences,and highlighting the perseverance of all the Confiad decision makers.

The era “post Internal Market” had commenced and progressively it became obvious that the “Challenge 1993” was not the expected success story.At least not as far as the new customs environment was concerned. Huge frauds were detected in the Community Transit.

A first Inquiry Committee of the European Parliament had to reassess the transit regimes.The Commission had to reply by an Action Plan and it was only during the summer of 2OO1 that the Transit Reform was approved and ready for implementation.An improvement thanks to the input of the professionals.

During the nineties the reform of procedures with economic impact of the Customs Code was also prepared. At the end of the nineties under the impetus of multinationals the “one Stop shop” appeared.

These items a.o. were on the agenda of the Confiad meetings.