A gateway to European customs experts connecting you with specialist across Europe

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The European Customs Counsel Network (ECCN) is an alliance of counselors, advisors, law firms and customs specialists across Europe, united by one practical goal: to make customs and international trade work reliably for business. Our members bring day-to-day experience in customs, related procedures, AEO certification, import & export documentation and customs compliance advisory. Each of our members operates locally, while combining knowledge of national practice with an ability to coordinate across borders.
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Current Secretariat

The Secretariat of ECCN ensures the smooth running of our internal activities. This role is held by one member for a period of one calendar year and rotates annually among our members. Current Secretariat (2025): PROSMAN & PAVLOVIČ Advokátska kancelária (Slovakia)
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Our Services

When customs issues matter, you need fast access to practical, country-specific expertise. The European Customs Counsel Network (ECCN) is your single gateway to a continent-wide pool of trusted customs specialists. Through our network you’ll find hands-on support that covers every step of cross-border trade:

Customs Compliance & Advisory

Guidance on EU and national customs regulations, tariff classifications, valuation, origin of goods, and preferential trade agreements.

Import & Export Documentation

Review and validation of shipping and customs documents (commercial invoices, packing lists, customs declarations, certificates of origin, EUR.1, ATR, etc.), ensuring accuracy and preventing costly delays at the border.

Dispute Resolution & Representation

Support in dealing with customs audits, appeals, and disputes with authorities. Our members provide legal representation where necessary and work to achieve practical, timely solutions.

AEO Certification Support

We help businesses reduce risks, avoid penalties, and operate in line with current legislation. Whether you’re a small exporter scaling into a new market or a multinational reviewing complex supply chains, ECCN members can give you local knowledge backed by larger reach so you don’t have to hunt for answers country by country.

Our Members

Uk
customs-associates

Customs Associates is an independent customs and international trade consultancy practice, providing advice and support to UK importers and exporters. We also advise on the international movement of goods into and out from the EU and have associates in many countries who can provide assistance on customs law and procedures. We ensure traders pay the minimum amount of duty, whilst at the same time complying with the many complex customs and international trade regulations.

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Norway
Thommessen

Thommessen is one of Norway’s leading commercial law firms, with offices in Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and London. Our clients are Norwegian and international businesses, in both the private and public sector. We assist businesses that recognize the value of a full-service, modern law firm with the experience, capacity, and culture required to handle complex matters with confidence, efficiency, and the highest quality.

On customs and trade matters, Thommessen provides end-to-end legal advice from strategic planning, clarifications and contractual structuring to the practical management of supply chain and regulatory matters with authorities. Our lawyers combine legal expertise with commercial understanding and have extensive experience advising on all aspects of customs law matters, including customs audits, controversies with the customs authorities, and litigation of customs disputes before the courts.

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Czech Republic, Slovakia
prosman-pavlovic

Slovak based law firm that provides comprehensive legal services in accordance with the international offices standards.

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Poland
soltysinski-kawecki-szlezak

Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak, an independent Polish law firm, offers legal services to businesses from Poland and abroad. We advise our clients on all the legal aspects of their local and international operations and represent them in litigation.

We have worked continuously since 1991, and over the years we have won one of the leading positions in the market for legal services. We have expertise in all areas of the law that are relevant to business. We are a team of over 200 lawyers, and we liaise on a regular basis with the largest international law firms.

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Hungary
drmb

The Office was established on June 11, 2007, based on the decision of the head of the office, Dr. Balázs Mayer M. It primarily operates in the fields of labor law, economic law, construction (business) law, excise and customs law and insurance law, in which the head of the office has more than 15 years of experience. In addition to these special fields, the cases handled by the Office also regularly include classic civil and corporate law. The Office has been operating with an expanded staff for several years, and the support of attorneys and candidate attorneys employed in our Office is also available for the sake of efficient operation.

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Germany
blomstein

BLOMSTEIN is a leading boutique for international trade, competition, antitrust, state aid and public procurement law as well as ESG based in Berlin, Germany. As part of our international trade law practice, we offer comprehensive advice on customs law, covering the full spectrum of customs-related matters – from customs value, origin, and classification to procedural issues and criminal law aspects. We represent clients in negotiations and disputes with customs authorities, ministries, and the European Commission, as well as before national and EU courts.

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Latvia
rockbridge

We are a cohesive and goal-oriented team of sworn attorneys and tax consultants. The office partners‘ more than 20 years of experience in international law firms make us one of the fastest and most successful growing law firms in Latvia.

We offer full legal and tax support to companies in various types of transactions, operations in regulated markets, as well as in disputes of any complexity.

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Lithuania
averus

Law firm AVERUS specialises in the areas of dispute and business law. It is led by the team of high-principled, responsible, motivated, and experienced lawyers.

Efficiency and focus on clients’ needs, creative approach, and ongoing professional development along with team work are the key values of our office.

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Croatia
dtb

DTB is regarded as one of the longest running and largest law firms in Croatia. We honed the craft and built our reputation as a law firm specialized in advising clients across the whole gamut of operations relevant to corporate law. Soon we became aware of the rapid development and growing diversity of our clients, as well as the necessity of adapting our legal services to the increasing legal needs of their market operations.

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Denmark
plesner

Plesner is a premier Danish law firm with roots dating back to 1918.
From the very beginning, our ambition has been to build a firm where the success of our clients goes hand in hand with the success of our people.

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Italy
spslex

Studio Legale Associato SPS is an Italian law firm assisting both domestic and foreign clients.

We act as counsel for corporations, private companies, individuals, institutions and foundations operating in fields as diverse as chemical, pharmaceutical, tobacco, telecommunications, metallurgical and automotive, transportation, food, clothing and apparel, leisure and entertainment, oil and gas, real estate, health care, e-commerce and software. Our activities are tailored to the individual needs of the client and include a wide range of services, from guidance on routine business issues to more specialised advice.

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Serbia
JPM

We have offices in Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as expanded regional and global reach to other jurisdictions through memberships in Lex Mundi (the world’s premier network of independent law firms). In this way, we are delivering seamless cross-border legal services to our clients in multi-jurisdictional transactions, working closely with first-rate law firms throughout the region and around the world

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Sweden
meinheimer

We know that the best advice encompasses more than legal expertise alone. Different businesses and sectors face different opportunities and challenges. Our market strength and depth of experience allows us to be a strategic partner to our clients and to tailor solutions beyond the legal details.

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Portugal, Spain
Cuatrecasas is a law firm present in 11 countries and well established in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. With a multidisciplinary team of 1,300 lawyers and a network of 24 offices, we advise on all areas of business law.
Our custom tax law group provide comprehensive advice in relation to the supply chain of our clients and their increasingly complex global logistics transactions, in particular, in foreign trade auditing, supply-chain planning, tax and customs procedures and customs litigation.
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France

French & EU Trade and Customs Law Firm, Fendler Salva Partners assists help its clients preserve, secure and streamline their international operations with comprehensive expertise in five key areas: customs regulations, economic sanctions and export control, trade defence, product compliance and trade litigation

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Slovenia

Established in 2020, our law firm proudly continues a tradition of legal excellence of Starman/Velkaverh Law Firm, that spans over 50 years.

Our activities give us presence throughout Slovenia and internationally.

Our team of experts have years of experience in commercial and civil law, and are defined by expertise, reliability, efficiency and ability to listen to our client’s needs.

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Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Uk, US
sidley

Sidley is an elite global law firm. With 2,300 lawyers, annual revenue of US$3.1 billion, and experience that spans 158 years, we have established a reputation using Built to Win℠ legal strategies in successfully representing clients in more than 70 countries on complex transactional, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters.

With 21 offices strategically situated in key commercial and financial hubs throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our perspective and our reach are truly global. Our lawyers and business professionals, fluent in more than 80 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape.

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Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Uk, US
sidley

Sidley is an elite global law firm. With 2,300 lawyers, annual revenue of US$3.1 billion, and experience that spans 158 years, we have established a reputation using Built to Win℠ legal strategies in successfully representing clients in more than 70 countries on complex transactional, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters.

With 21 offices strategically situated in key commercial and financial hubs throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our perspective and our reach are truly global. Our lawyers and business professionals, fluent in more than 80 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape.

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meinheimer
customs-associates
JPM
spslex
plesner
dtb
averus
blomstein
drmb
soltysinski-kawecki-szlezak
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Thommessen

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