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EU Customs Authority

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ138781968 ↗
Source-derived summary

The European Union Customs Authority (EU Customs Authority, EUCA) is a new EU decentralised agency to be set up in Lille, France for the EU Customs Data Hub. The European Parliament and Council of the European Union decided on Lille as the seat on 25 March 2026. Nine EU countries had put forward a city to host the agency.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “EU Customs Authority” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Customs, Authority and Open-knowledge, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Customs, Authority and Open-knowledge is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138781968. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “EU Customs Authority” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.