The Equipment Team finds solutions for ensuring that the BCPs operating at the EU Eastern and South-Eastern land border are equipped with a tailored set of technical appliances, taking into account the risks, threats, and traffic flow at the border.
This team draft recommendations for pre-purchase tests of the equipment, coordinated or joint procurements, and maintenance of customs control and detection equipment. The team develops commonly accepted model technical specifications of the equipment. The EQ team has created a Procurement expert network and Scanner cooperation network for closer collaboration within the Member States in the area of customs technical equipment.
Furthermore, experts analyse the possibility of spreading successful regional projects in the field of customs detection technology on the level of countries involved in CELBET project and spead the information available detection tecnologies available in tha market.
The team leader is from Latvia. Experts are from Croatia, Bulgaria, Estonia and Finland.