The occupation of the customs officer ranks among the oldest well-known occupations and is already well-known from the Bible. Anywhere, where there is an arranged community, also go into action. Usually were unpopular with the citizens, since they drove the taxes or other obligation deliveries on arrangement of the respective Staatsmacht. In the Middle Ages also different occupational groups were incumbent on like Mueller, or the skilled trades the right and the obligation to go than a drivers of authority deliveries into action.

Nowadays the tasks of the federal customs administration are very various. Even if it concerns nowadays still a career profile, which is to be found world-wide in the most different cultures, then the concrete field differs today depending upon national task dispatching.

The German tariff today

Apart from (admitted most citizen) the tasks at the borders with transnational person and goods traffic, fight drug and of the smuggling of arms) the work today also in the range of the moonlighting (financial control moonlighting), external trade, market regulations, drug fight, smuggling of arms and fight of the money laundering criminality.

For a long time before the entry into force of the Schengener of agreement the customs administration acted surface covering inland, however since the omission of the borders within the European union (European Union) numerous frontier duty places were dissolved and/or converted into The tariff did not change its main activities however, but only on the main emphasis of the European Union external borders concentrates (sea and airports, free ports, the border to Switzerland) and into the inland shifts.

The tasks of the tariff may not be confounded with those the federal police (BPol), those excluding borderpolice tasks notice (e.g. Passport check and tasks of the former course police etc.). The tariff is subordinate to the Federal Minister of Finance despite police and punish-pursuing task perception.

A majority of the customs officers holds the function of a determination person of the public prosecutor's office.

See also

• Border control, service designations of the German customs administration

Related links

• Description of occupation mZD (federal agency for work)
• Description of occupation gZD (federal agency for work)
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