Moving toward paperless procedures

CONEX, the company founded and directed by Alban GRUSON, is an essential reference when asking practical questions about modernising customs procedures for administrations and companies. This modernisation is important for European harmonisation and in adapting to evolution in world trade.


CONEX is the European leader in customs declaration and tariff treatment software. It benefits from 20 years of experience providing a service of facilitating the international trade of goods and services. Thus, CONEX and its CEO, Alban GRUSON, are often invited by professional syndicates and public bodies to share their expertise in meetings and working parties where the reform of the EU customs code is evoked.

“We act as an intermediary between operators and administrations. We have a practical understanding of how companies operate. Shippers and transporters can also count on our acute knowledge of customs procedures around the world, as well as on our ability to follow their evolution,” explains Alban GRUSON at the end of a conference organised by the regulatory service UBIFRANCE and overseas economic missions, at the Palais d’Iéna on 17 March, 2006. This event was followed by other symposiums and meetings, both public and behind closed doors, in France and elsewhere in Europe. 2006 has been a pivotal year in the setting up of e-customs clearance procedures.

These debates have been the opportunity for bringing together companies from all sectors of activity as well as customs managers from numerous European countries in the months leading up to the 1 January 2007 deadline, when the European Union establishes dematerialised customs procedures.