European Union Customs Code - Tapa dura

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Tom Walsh, BCL, LLM, is a former Irish Customs & Excise official, with over twenty years frontline experience in every facet of Customs and Excise law, practice and policy. During this period he was seconded to the Zambian Customs Service as a Customs and Excise advisor for a period of three years. He was subsequently seconded as a legal expert to Eurocustoms for a further year. He left the Irish Customs Service to join PwC (Ireland) as a Senior Customs & Excise Consultant and later joined KPMG (Netherlands) as a Senior European Consultant. His national and international clients covered the entire spectrum of customs and excise law and practice, both civil and criminal. He carried out a series of studies on behalf of the EU Commission and the World Bank involving, inter alia, the review, revision and rewriting of: (a) the customs laws of EU applicant Member States, (b) the Customs Codes of COMESA and SADC, and (c) the neighbourhood agreements between the EU on the one hand and Russia, Belarus, Moldova and the Ukraine on the other. He has lectured and given tutorials in customs law at the Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, and University College Cork. He is the author of the Customs Code of the European Union (Butterworths 1996) and has made presentations on behalf of the EU Commission and the US Government in Eastern Europe.