Brussels/Geneva, 16 October 2026 The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union, DG TAXUD, presented progress towards implementing the eTIR procedure in the European Union during a meeting of the Electronic Customs Coordination Group, ECCG, held on 16 October 2026.

Representatives from customs administrations, international organizations and the European Union concluded that the eTIR offers one of the most promising solutions to address many of the challenges affecting transit operations along the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor (Middle Corridor), during a regional workshop held in Warsaw, Poland, from 7 to 9 September 2026.

Geneva, 05 August 2026 — Customs authorities of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan cleared six TIR transports without paper documents in July 2026, applying the eTIR procedure of the United Nations TIR Convention. Five of the six operations were multi-modal transports including a maritime leg, crossing the Caspian Sea between the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Key figures • 4 participating countries • 6 TIR transports under eTIR procedure • 5 multimodal transports • 1 crossing of the Caspian Sea • 1200+ km under a single digital procedure The four customs administrations prepared and ran the operations together, with coordination and technical support from the UNECE TIR secretariat and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) and its member associations in the region.

Successful Installation of the eTIR National Application in Tajikistan and Progress Towards Cross-Border eTIR Transport. Dushanbe - Tajikistan, 16-18 March 2026