BAZG (Federal Office for Customs and Border Security)
The BAZG (Federal Office for Customs and Border Security) is Switzerland's federal customs authority. It is known as BAZG (DE), OFDF (FR), UDSC (IT) and FOCBS (EN) and operates the Passar goods-traffic system for export, import and transit. The BAZG defines the procedures and message standards, receives customs declarations and issues the assessment decisions, which are available on ePortal.admin.ch.
In context
The BAZG defines the procedures and message standards of Passar and issues the assessment decisions. It is the authority to which every customs declaration is addressed.
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Source: BAZG (bazg.admin.ch)
Part of the Swiss Passar customs system.